Our thanks to Jeff for this. The only white man affected by the reshuffle (following Angela Rayner’s resignation) is Ian Murray, fired from his post as the secretary of state for Scotland, doubtless to be replaced by a snarling 300+kg blue-haired one-legged deaf black lesbian with a degree in gender studies.
David Lammy, foreign secretary, becomes the new justice secretary. Yvette Cooper, home secretary, becomes the new foreign secretary. Shabana Mahmood, justice secretary, becomes the new home secretary.
The top three government positions – chancellor, home secretary and foreign secretary – are now held by women for the first time. Starmer’s capitulation to feminists is almost complete. What could possibly go wrong?
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Starmer dealt trade blow as investment minister Gustafsson quits | Money News | Sky News Well there’s a surprise, “have it all” no doubt “amazing” woman leaves because her busy schedule is “clashing with the demands of raising a young family, according to a person close to her.” Damn that patriarchy! Mrs. Balls wll be able to relax, as we saw with Lammy, the PM never passes up a chance to rack up the Air miles for a photo opp. international conference. I suspect Sir Keir will continue to find labour women troublesome Starmer faces revolt over ‘needlessly cruel’ treatment of female aides no doubt letting Angela go will be “misogyny” rather than she failed to speed up house building and or indeed anything else her post was to “deliver”. Opinion: ‘Angela Rayner attacks are just snobbery and misogyny’ Perhaps Sir Keir will be arrested for “misogyny” as he returns from one of his jaunts.
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In 1997, the Constituency Labour Party for Pontefract and Castleford had originally selected a man to stand as MP but was overruled by the National Executive Committee who imposed an all-women shortlist. That is how Yvette Cooper was first elected, by being forced onto the local electorate in a fairly safe set.
Shabana Mahmood‘s selection on an all-women shortlist from the outset selected in 2010 for Birmingham Ladywood. She defeated the other woman candidate to gain the nomination. Whether they had a better politician who happened to have the disability of being male, we might never know for sure.
In both cases, the use of an all-women shortlist was decisive in securing their selection as parliamentary candidates. These are not people who have won their positions through equality or by merit and are therefore unlikely to be the best that would have been available.
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