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.

@tinydynamine

Nicola Sturgeon?
Humza Yousaf

I'm still not interested in a remark he made that annoyed the GC women and I don't regard it as relevant to his competence as Foreign Secretary. He's already been putting in hard work to prepare for the role.

@NoSnowdrop its Keir. It’s not difficult.

It is SO disappointing when a woman (i presume) assumes other women have been hired for the "optics".

Nobody ever says it about white men.

Won’t somebody pleeeease think of the (privately educated) children!!

She could have hired women for their talents not as a box ticking exercise though. Not even one in all that time.

Thank you for that in depth analysis of the Labour manifesto.

His competence isn't hidden. It's evident in his qualifications, experience and achievements.

In-depth opinion & you’re welcome!

Liz Truss (probably the most incompetent PM in memory) put Therese Coffey in her cabinet, as did Rishi Sunak at one point . I can't think of anyone in Starmer's cabinet, male or female, who's likely to be as incompetent as she was.

Neither is the answer to the simple question. “What is a woman?” but there you go… feel free to pick up on one typo in my post. It wasn’t a deliberate misspelling.

To the OP unfortunately there are many men (hello Keir! - waves to cardibach!) who suddenly know what a women is when it suits their means.

Did it come with pictures to illustrate the effects of each policy?

Are you bashing the 3 female PMs because they were Tory? So it's OK to bash women on MN as long as they're Tories?

Here for the pictures of taking away all the countryside.

It's a token gesture to try and buy back women's votes. They've damaged many women's confidence with their misogynistic views on what a woman is.

They'd be horrified by the idea of anyone blacking up. Because as you know, the Left always considers themselves morally superior. However they are more than happy for any man to woman up, appropriate our identity and put us at risk.

When it comes down to it Srarmer does not have women's backs. You'd have to be naive to not see this as the cynical ploy it is.

And as for David Lammy's idiocy. Words fail me.

It could be an all female team but what would it matter when they refute biological reality and the implicit effects of patriarchy on biological women?

Labour are no friend to the female electorate.

Is it great tho? They’re just ticking the box - to please everyone - look at us, look how equal we are. I think the best person for the job should get the job, if that looks like an all women cabinet - great. All men. Great. Lisa Nandy, minister of sport the best choice?! Don’t be silly.

I give it about a year or less before he goes off message and says something stupid again that slips past his aides and speech writers. Then he'll be shuffled out.

Okay Nigel.

I feel upbeat. At least we’ll get five years of stability now. I don’t agree with much of what labour are up to but I do believe Starmer will improve the mood in the country and hopefully bring people together. Great to see women in the cabinet.

I think Liz Truss was utterly incompetent. Her sex had nothing to do with that.

Windrush and UC to start with. I'm sure I can come up with a lot more. Oh yes she wanted to bring in self ID.

I don’t care what sex they were. Those 3 PMs damaged the U.K.

I think Starmer appointed the best people for the job regardless of sex. Since the majority of them have been shadowing the roles for ages I doubt if he's based his decision on buying women's votes back.

It’s a very well planned token gesture - they’ve all been in shadow roles for months (years in many cases). Or maybe….you're wrong and he doesn’t hate women at all.

David Lammy’s answers on Mastermind in the GK bit still make me cry with laughter.

1. What was the married name of the scientists Marie and Pierre who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 for their research into radiation?

David Lammy; “Antoinette.”

2. Which fortress was built in the 1370s to defend one of the gates of Paris, and was later used as a state prison by Cardinal Richelieu?

David Lammy; “Versailles.”

3. Who succeeded to the English throne aged nine on the death of his father Henry VIII in 1547?

David Lammy; “Henry VII”.

I mean if anything shows a man can’t deal with pressure!