A BBC report on Starmer’s new cabinet. Of the 24 ministers, 11 are women. Maybe Starmer was reluctant to go for gender parity at this stage, as it would appear tokenistic, but look at the roles of these women, some of whom (e.g. Rachel Reeves, Chancellor) have long made noises about improving the lot of women – and by implication, worsening the lot of men. The 11 women:
Angela Rayner (Deputy PM)
Rachel Reeves (Chancellor)
Yvette Cooper (Home Secretary)
Shabana Mahmood (Justice)
Bridget Phillipson (Education)
Liz Kendall (Work & Pensions)
Louise Haigh (Transport)
Lisa Nandy (Culture)
Jo Stevens (Wales)
Lucy Powell (Leader of the Commons)
Baroness Smith of Basildon (Leader of the Lords)
Justice for Men & Boys 
Rachel Reeves’s brand of feminist economics will I’m only benefit single mothers and not the nuclear family.
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Since Starmer as DPP introduced the policy of concealing evidence from the courts in all rape cases in one sense the sex of the ministers doesn’t matter the party as a whole has an agenda to punish men in every way as part of destroying traditional family based society. Frustrated by the limited funds to give out “free stuff” I expect they will double down on things like the Gender Pay Gap, Denying the right to a Jury trial, Quotas in top jobs and more “positive discrimination” in recruitment and advancement, Giving marriage rights to cohabiting couples so that women can get the same enrichment as is achieved in divorce, the implementation of the Istanbul Convention effectively making criticism of feminism a crime, comprehensive “gender equality” education in schools. Every form of “woke” virtue signalling to their core constituencies in academia and publicly funded services because the money will be too tight to do much “redistribution”.
Right now I’m mightily “p………d” off at the “right” as a whole for creating an open goal for what is a dictatorship by the the left. Andrew Neil is quite right this is the last jigsaw piece in the triumph of the “long march through the institutions”. And this time there will be no repeating the mistake of the “Iraq War” to interrupt this dominance.
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Thanks Nigel, but your anger at the “right” is misplaced, I suggest, as the Tory party has long been a progressive / left-wing party masquerading as a conservative one. Labour Lite, if you will. Their destruction at this election (mainly at the hands of Reform) was, to me, a necessary and welcome thing. Yes, we shall have five years of Labour mis-rule as a result, but hopefully this will be ended by either a Reform government or a reformed Tory government. I have little hope of the latter, and no wish for it. The remaining Tory MPs appear convinced that they lost this election due to in-fighting, when the reality is they lost through reneging on manifesto commitments (e.g. immigration numbers) or lack of delivery (the NHS and so much more).
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“I suggest, as the Tory party has long been a progressive / left-wing party masquerading as a conservative one. Labour Lite, if you will. “
Exactly.
Conservative, my foot. The only thing they conserve now is the radical changed imposed on the country by the Left.
They haven’t been remotely conservative in many decades. Even Margaret Thatcher wasn’t particularly conservative — she just seemed so by contrast to other Tory leaders.
The Left took over the Establishment after the War, and consequently the entire political landscape has shifted steadily leftwards ever since. That is why Reform UK always get labelled “far-right”/”populist” in the media — the media are Leftists.
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Shabana Mahmood (Justice)
oh dear..
this means the family courts will be even worse, divorce and domestic violence will be doubled down on in favour of women and men will not be able to get justice. Neither will Parental Alienation ever be recognised
I had wanted to finalise a long standing divorce in the UK in the next few years, but the political /legal climate against male survivors is still very bad….
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Thanks Rob. Male Justice Secretaries have been equally anti-male. They have long known that the criminal justice system is far more punitive towards men than women, and have cared not a jot. I know of one Tory Justice Secretary who told an MP of my acquaintance that he was perfectly well aware of the anti-male bias, and welcomed it.
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