Brexiteer Tory MP Philip Davies was unknown to me till today when he said:
I launched the Better Off Out group in 2006 I could always rely on the now leader of the Labour Party to vote for my proposals. I am sorry that he has now ditched the only popular policy he ever believed in.”
Googling him, I find he complained two days ago that his party has selected too many candidates “because of their gender and the colour of their skin”.
A site called Scram News published this story under the wicked lie
Tory MP complains there are too many female and ethnic minority MPs in party
Scram News is edited by this man.
Sam Bright
Editor
Having worked at the BBC for the past four years, Sam is glad he can finally say what he wants about Nigel Farage.
Philip Davies's remark sounds what you'd expect to be the case, in our fallen world.
Certainly there are many women Tory MPs who are quite hopeless.
Heidi Allen, whom I heard embarrass herself being questioned by John Humphreys when she left her party, is absolutely unfit to be in the House. Amber Rudd is another. Andrea Leadsom was said to have been called a stupid woman by the Speaker, which is not what we expect from a Speaker but is true. Jeremy Corbyn was seen to mouth the same words. Karen Bradley admitted that she became Secretary of State for Northern Ireland without knowing that in the Province parties are based on the religious division. She blithely admitted this.
The most obvious example, of course, is Theresa May. She became Home Secretary because George Osborne one of the three great offices of state should be held by a woman and the rest is (a very painful) history.
Certainly there are many women Tory MPs who are quite hopeless.
It's difficult to make a judgment on female politicians because politicians in general are lying cowardly opportunists. Politics does not exactly attract competent honest people.
Did Margaret Thatcher do more damage than Tony Blair?
To take an Australian example Julia Gillard was a terrible prime minister but was she any worse than Malcolm Turnbull?
Would Elizabeth Warren be a worse president than Trump?
The only thing you can say for certain is that the massive influx of women into politics has not improved things.
I did not say that female politicians are hopeless. I said that a number are - and the reason is not hard to find. They are given seats not because of their merits but their sex. I notice a lot more emotion and empathy these days in politics and a desire to prevent people giving other people offence which I think might be connected to more women in politics. Can we stop using the word gender please, except for grammar?
I did not say that female politicians are hopeless. I said that a number are - and the reason is not hard to find. They are given seats not because of their merits but their sex.
Agreed.
I notice a lot more emotion and empathy these days in politics and a desire to prevent people giving other people offence which I think might be connected to more women in politics.
Agreed. Although I think that male politicians have also become more feminised. Women in politics is a symptom of an increasingly feminised society. It's interesting that emotion and empathy tend to lead to totalitarian thinking.
Can we stop using the word gender please, except for grammar?
I don't follow Antipodean politics but I love Tony Abbott, liked John Howard and loathed Malcolm Turnbull. The new man looks excellent. Kerr seemed good in his day.
As for Paul Keating he disgusted us all, of course, by putting his hand round Herr Majesty's waist. The worst sort of faux Irish neo -Fenian and malcontent.
Philip Davies believes people should be appointed on merit - REGARDLESS of skin colour or sex. That is also what Martin Luther King said he believed in.
Mr Sam Bright is indeed a despicable twister - all too common among modern "liberals" is the desire to deceive. The BBC (indeed all the television stations) are full of such twisters.
Douglas Murray writes in the Spectator that as Michael Gove was speaking at the German Day of Unification event and saying ‘Britain and Germany have so much in common’ Bradshaw shouted ‘Nonsense.’ "Gove continued ‘I think Britain and Germany do have much in common.’ Bradshaw then took to Twitter to declare that Gove had been heckled at the Embassy event, without bothering to reveal that he himself was heckling." A professor at King's London then said Mr Gove had compared Brexit to the fall of Communism which was completely untrue and his lie went viral. His tweet to that effect was retweeeted when Murray wrote 3500 times and his later apology 8 times.
A British academic 3 years ago did compare the opening of the Berlin Wall and Brexit but did not dare tell his colleagues he voted Leave. I think the comparison is a useful one but I begin to doubt Brexit will even happen and if so whether it will be a real Brexit but a sort of bondage to Brussels and Dublin.
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Certainly there are many women Tory MPs who are quite hopeless.
ReplyDeleteIt's difficult to make a judgment on female politicians because politicians in general are lying cowardly opportunists. Politics does not exactly attract competent honest people.
Did Margaret Thatcher do more damage than Tony Blair?
To take an Australian example Julia Gillard was a terrible prime minister but was she any worse than Malcolm Turnbull?
Would Elizabeth Warren be a worse president than Trump?
The only thing you can say for certain is that the massive influx of women into politics has not improved things.
I did not say that female politicians are hopeless. I said that a number are - and the reason is not hard to find. They are given seats not because of their merits but their sex. I notice a lot more emotion and empathy these days in politics and a desire to prevent people giving other people offence which I think might be connected to more women in politics.
DeleteCan we stop using the word gender please, except for grammar?
I did not say that female politicians are hopeless. I said that a number are - and the reason is not hard to find. They are given seats not because of their merits but their sex.
DeleteAgreed.
I notice a lot more emotion and empathy these days in politics and a desire to prevent people giving other people offence which I think might be connected to more women in politics.
Agreed. Although I think that male politicians have also become more feminised. Women in politics is a symptom of an increasingly feminised society. It's interesting that emotion and empathy tend to lead to totalitarian thinking.
Can we stop using the word gender please, except for grammar?
I totally agree.
That fat old man Goering wept when his dogs died.
DeleteI don't follow Antipodean politics but I love Tony Abbott, liked John Howard and loathed Malcolm Turnbull. The new man looks excellent. Kerr seemed good in his day.
DeleteAs for Paul Keating he disgusted us all, of course, by putting his hand round Herr Majesty's waist. The worst sort of faux Irish neo -Fenian and malcontent.
DeleteThe BBC did not teach this man to care about truthfulness.
ReplyDeletePhilip Davies believes people should be appointed on merit - REGARDLESS of skin colour or sex. That is also what Martin Luther King said he believed in.
ReplyDeleteMr Sam Bright is indeed a despicable twister - all too common among modern "liberals" is the desire to deceive. The BBC (indeed all the television stations) are full of such twisters.
I agree with all that.
DeleteDouglas Murray writes in the Spectator that as Michael Gove was speaking at the German Day of Unification event and saying ‘Britain and Germany have so much in common’ Bradshaw shouted ‘Nonsense.’ "Gove continued ‘I think Britain and Germany do have much in common.’
DeleteBradshaw then took to Twitter to declare that Gove had been heckled at the Embassy event, without bothering to reveal that he himself was heckling." A professor at King's London then said Mr Gove had compared Brexit to the fall of Communism which was completely untrue and his lie went viral. His tweet to that effect was retweeeted when Murray wrote 3500 times and his later apology 8 times.
A British academic 3 years ago did compare the opening of the Berlin Wall and Brexit but did not dare tell his colleagues he voted Leave. I think the comparison is a useful one but I begin to doubt Brexit will even happen and if so whether it will be a real Brexit but a sort of bondage to Brussels and Dublin.