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Justice for Men & Boys 
Now I must admit to a guffaw at this Furious female Labour MPs urge Starmer to make a woman his de facto deputy | Labour | The Guardian Our old friend Hatty and the wimmin in the PLP giving “working class” Keir (white knight in chief) a roasting and demanding a woman be made ….. well some made up sinecure to pretend to be “Deputy”. Ignoring that there is a Deputy PM already, and that that incumbent is a big tick on the race card! Perhaps the only answer is a whole series of Deputy PMs to reflect all the Equality Strands in the Equality Act (and of course add in some of the LGBTQ pluses that hadn’t been invented in 2010 ). I recon about 15 First Secretaries of State should cover most bases.
I’m sure there will be a lurch leftward and an influx of “amazing” women to No. 10 and government offices. And that may be a good thing, thus far the “wimmin” have sniped from the safety of backbenches or pointless junior ministries, relying on the virtue of never being responsible and taking a risk. The few that have, have tried the “misogyny” card when the wheels fall off their Departments. As the Labour government continues its omnishambles way leading up to its inevitable financial crisis, tax hikes and humiliating “bail outs”, not to mention perennial NHS crises and strikes, porous borders, housing crisis, energy crisis, defence doldrums…… etc. It may be a good thing that the assumption of feminine saintliness is undermined by a parade of female ministers clearly responsible for the debacle. And Keir could don a frock and demand “call me Kelly” just put the cherry on top.
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Harman already said she wanted a female replacement for Rayner back in September (Not just a woman actually, but a woman from outside London): https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c059z4g836eo so this latest demand is just her using the Epstein/Mandelson fallout to get what she always wanted.
She also has plenty of previous form when a role opens up of demanding it is filled by a woman. Here in 2018 she calls for Corbyn’s successor as Labour leader to be a woman and says men should aspire only to be deputy leader: https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republic-of-ireland/harriet-harman-says-labours-next-leader-must-be-a-woman/a/115568200.html She repeated this demand in August 2024 when discussing who should follow Starmer as Labour leader: https://news.sky.com/story/male-labour-mps-should-strive-for-deputy-and-back-a-woman-when-picking-successor-to-starmer-says-harman-13193458
She even suggested the next ‘Doctor Who’ must be a woman in 2017 and said a man should be the female doctor’s assistant so “she could tell him what to do.” https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4178544/The-Doctor-woman-says-Harriet-Harman.html
Lisa Nandy has also been prominent in the last couple of days claiming briefings from No. 10 were “dripping with misogyny.” Nandy also appeared in her ministerial role at the Paris Olympics and when interviewed by Eurosport the female interviewer mentioned that it was the first Olympic Games to achieve full gender parity and Nandy responded: ” It’s better than that from a Team GB perspective – we’ve sent more women to these Olympic Games than men.” https://www.tntsports.co.uk/olympics/olympic-games-paris-2024/2024/lisa-nandy-talks-up-the-power-of-sport-at-paris-2024-dreaming-big-about-the-olympics_vid2203971/video.shtml?welcome=eurosport (roughly about 1 minute in).
Given that the cabinet is already roughly 50% female, Badenoch’s “Boys Club” jibe really doesn’t seem appropriate, and from their own past history, the parliamentarians jumping on the bandwagon seem to want far more than gender parity. There’s also the other side of the coin too. That Belfast Telegraph article states that when Harman became an MP in 1982 parliament was 97% male, well that is roughly equivalent to the current prison population in England and Wales. What are Harman, Nandy and Labour doing to bring gender parity to that gender gap? The exact opposite in fact, they are already doing everything they can to increase that gender gap, and hiring a female deputy to “tackle misogyny” will no doubt only increase those efforts to widen the gap even further.
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