It's incidents like these that make me so shocked at people who try and make out that the Labour Party are worse than the tories in the bigotry stakes.
Labour Party absolutely has its problems but so often those talking about those talk as if the tories aren't bigoted - they've always been massively so, they've just (mostly, for a time) got very skilled at hiding it from the public.
Though certainly the recent tories have an appalling track record on this. Boris Johnson comes to mind obviously but there's been lots of more subtle comments AND it shows in their policies/actions too.
NI is very much being treated as an inconvenience by the tories at the moment, not least regarding brexit.
You'd think, if for mere "self preservation" reasons (have they forgotten that the troubles didn't just take place in NI?) they'd get a fucking grip and put a minister in place that has at least the first clue of the history of the country.
Ffs the least she can do is even read the most basic info on it IT'S HER JOB!!
If Chris grayling is having a day off thank fuck! Anyone watch last leg? Apparently his cock ups have so far cost the country £533m!
Agree on her age being a factor too, she's 2 years older than me certainly old enough to remember how bad it was (though admittedly the uk media bias at the time towards the Protestant side of things won't have helped matters in terms of people's awareness. No excuse for that now though).
"When I rule the world, we'll have public examinations of ministerial candidates - a la "Mastermind" - where they have to convince "the peoples panel" they aren't a waste of space." Ooft don't get me started.
Makes me think of that thing that went around Facebook (not sure about how accurate it was) when apparently each minister was particularly well suited for each role. Something like an athlete as the sports minister, dr as the health minister etc
When I look at our mps and the cabinet (and shadow cabinet) roles they're in and you look at their qualifications and work history, they're rarely connected in any way! Its bonkers!
Any good manager puts people in roles that play to their strengths, and SACKS the ones with none!
And (said this before) honestly given most mps have supposedly had good often Oxbridge educations - if I were anything to do with those institutions I'd find it fucking embarrassing how thick they are!