Harriet Harman always wants one of Labour’s two “top jobs” (keep telling yourself that, Hatty) to be held by a woman.
But she has a narrower definition of a woman than you or I might have.
She is an enthusiastic supporter of all-women shortlists, which require support for abortion on demand, up to and including partial birth, in order to qualify as a woman. Furthermore, during her Deputy Leadership campaign, she and her supporters repeatedly referred to herself as the only woman candidate. Too bad for Hazel Blears.
To Harman and her backers, all proles look the same, in the way that all rats look the same. And she-proles (or hen-proles, or cow-proles, or whatever Harman thinks that they are called), not being old campus feminists from the Seventies, are simply not women at all.
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Geraldine Smith, Labour MP for Morecambe and a strong campaigner for restricting abortion, was selected via an all-women shortlist.
ReplyDeleteShe has made her entire career on being a wimmen & claiming that, due to male oppression, rather than from competence, she is entitled to preference.
ReplyDeleteBy definition, were there any truth whatsoever to the claim of discrimination, this tactic wouldn't have worked & she would working at something appropriate to her talents.
Ersesmo, they can't have asked her, or she can't have told them. These are certainly the rules.
ReplyDeleteDavid, they most certainly are not the rules. Geraldine Smith is a woman and a member of the Labour Party; therefore she was entitled to stand for selection on an all-women shortlist.
ReplyDeleteI think you are confusing all-women shortlists with Emily's List, an organisation which gives grants to women seeking selection as Labour MPs. Twelve out of 97 current Labour women MPs were supported by Emily's list. Not all of them were selected by an all-women shortlist.
You cannot be on an all-women shortlist unless you are on Emily's List. And you cannot be on Emily's List unless you support partial-birth abortion.
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