So Jeremy Corbyn now leads the Labour party. He’s committed to handing 50% of shadow cabinet positions to women, a move which has proved very successful in France and Scotland – if you measure success in terms of 50% of cabinet ministers being women, anyway. Given that some of the more experienced female Labour MPs have already told him to take a running jump, it should be entertaining to see who will remain. We can be sure there’ll be plenty of hatchet-faced women in the shadow cabinet, maybe including the Eagle sisters. Joy.
Harriet Harman is more likely to cook a full English breakfast for her resident patriarch, Jack Dromey MP, than Jeremy Corbyn ever become prime minister, or so political commentators seem to be implying. If they’re wrong, a taste of what’s in store for men and boys can be deduced from Corbyn’s radical feminist campaigning document, Working With Women. My hunch is that it was written by Special Snowflake, in association with the ladies at the Fawcett Society.
It is the finite human lifespan, the sure and certain knowledge that I will one day die that makes news such as ‘Corbynmania’ a mere burden rather than the final straw. In centuries to come – if anyone is still seriously recording history – I’ll just be one of those peasants in the background of a photograph of a ‘Some people who lived in interesting times’ while a world-weary teacher asks if any of her charges recognised the Confucian reference in the photo caption. Meanwhile… Hendricks do a remarkably good gin, and it’s not yet rationed.
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