To be so happy at so many women in the cabinet

[Standupcitizen]

Anyone else absolutely thrilled to see women represented equally in the cabinet for the first time ever?

22 appointments. 11 women, 11 men. It seems completely deliberate. Previously the highest % of females in the cabinet was something like 38%. First female chancellor in history as well.

I feel elated that for the first time in my life, we have equality of the sexes in government.

Whatever you think of starmer, the labour party or of the women in question, this is absolutely huge to me, i feel ridiculously emotional about it. I think as a woman who has been dismissed, talked over, belittled, discriminated against and overlooked for promotion in favour of men in the workplace - if the government can do it, then other companies have no excuse.

And Lisa Nandy is mixed race.

Trans issue. I call a spade a spade. You know this.

Except when the spade is a bucket.

Any MN feminist moaning about transmen being in their spaces? No.

It’s a ‘male’ issue.

Why do you care so much that a lot, NOT ALL, women don’t want males in their spaces? If you don’t care why do you continually pop upon various threads to say it’s not an issue? What do you get out of it?

The composition of the new Cabinet is not about males in women's spaces is it?

No, but any excuse. It can be shoehorned into anything if you try hard enough.

Is it about race and disabilities? Or can conversation evolve as people bring up different points?

There's no Punch without Judy eh @BIossomtoes @ilovesooty 😉

In 1951 Churchill's Tory party got a smaller share of the vote than Atlee's Labour party.
Who became PM?

Yes indeed Gordon Brown is a very impressive person.

What's your point?

I just wondered if you knew the answer.

People voted tactically knowing very well that the result would be a labour government.

That sounds like a damn good mandate to me.

You don’t care about women and girls’ hard won rights and dignities? Wow.

That's not what I took from that post at all.

This, exactly.

I assumed they had quoted the wrong post in their reply.

Ah. Maybe.

I'm glad to see the level of state education there as well.

It's apparently the most diverse parliament ever. I'm absolutely delighted not only with the amount of women in parliament and those in the top jobs, but also with the amount of state educated people.

He has one eye, but isn’t blind. David Blunkett.

No, how on earth have you made that leap? If the wrong person, regardless of gender, is put in a job then it’s not the right course of action. So if the women in the cabinet are there because they’re the right people for the job, I’m ecstatic, if they’re in those roles because they’re not men and aren’t the right people then no, I’m not happy.
When you’ve had to build cost models to recover parts of a business, including making a lot of people (some of whom are friends of mine) redundant, due to the incompetency of people put in roles they didn’t have the skills and experience for but happened to not have a penis between their legs then you might understand what I’m saying.

@Scottishgirl85 totally agree- I'm not into box ticking- best person for the job gets the job -

Or me.

I do care. I just don't agree that they are under attack to the extent that a few mumsnetters do.

That's dishonest. If your adding the votes for the Tories and Reform together, you should be comparing them to all the votes for progressive parties added together. All you're doing is shuffling numbers around until you get the answer you want.

David Blunkett wasn't a minister in the last Labour government,