Ella Whelan for spiked: “Who cares if Labour’s leader is a woman?”

/ Mike Buchanan

Interesting.

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3 thoughts on “Ella Whelan for spiked: “Who cares if Labour’s leader is a woman?””

  1. So Hattie assumes women can’t compete and therefore, like in sport, there has to be a separate women only part of politics where a woman is guaranteed to “win”. I’d love to see Hattie quizzed about why exactly the Conservatives have produced 3 female Prime Ministers (admittedly two rather lackluster) and 4 Party Leaders? Or why in her beloved Europe there are “right wing” party leaders (Le Pen) and PMs (Meloni). Yet she only owed her two stints as caretaker leader to a rule that the Deputy Leader had to be a woman if the leader was a man. Her argument is in contradiction to her supposed ideology, given it is that Labour men should be chivalrous and help the ladies into leadership through gallantly being “allies” while suppressing their own ambitions and work ethic.

    Just on the point mentioned about Jess Phillips, I don’t for a moment thinks she bungled the Grooming Gang Inquiry due to incompetence. It was and is all about playing for time so the Inquiry takes so long it has been forgotten.

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  2. And just to make the point that Grooming Gangs are not “history” Rhyl child rape and grooming gang guilty of trafficking girls | North Wales Live Despite the Police and Prison Service being required to collect data on Ethnicity, Religion and Race by the Equality Duty in the Equality Act both claim to not have the data on these with regards to sexual offences. However work done by GB News (following up on the 100s of cases reported in local news etc over the past decade) indicates a very substantial number of those convicted and imprisoned are from the ethnic minorities in the scandal. Unsurprising given that many cases have between 20 and 30 convicted from a single “gang”.

    All the while the feminists, such as Mz. Phillips have targeted teenage boys at school and students at Uni. for “Consent” education and punishment for “misogyny” and “Rape Culture”. When the data shows the real problem lies with much older men from very different culture. In a way this is all the more remarkable because the “Pakistani Grooming Gangs” emerge from an self proclaimed “patriarchal” culture with rigid gender roles and gender segregation. It would be easy to take this issue as evidence that such cultural rigidity around sex and gender could be linked to “toxic” masculine behaviour. It is an “open goal” for feminists, hence they do point to Afghanistan as a Patriarchy. Yet weirdly the same feminists happy to decry “macho” culture in Latin America and “Patriarchal oppression in the middle east. Are silent on the very same in their own towns and cities.

    Again if only someone had the guts to quiz Mz. Phillips and her “sistas” on why exactly they are so quiet on what on the face of it is such a gift to them? For Phillips as with other MPs its the decades of reliance on Ethnic minority votes, but the silence is so complete there is more to it. Just why is it tackling wolf whistling builders is more important?

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