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.

Minister of culture. There’s more to it than sport.

Have you seen the shit people are saying about Angela Raynor?

Im am a sex realist and furious with Starmer & the party over their handling of this issue, but its complete nonsense to suggest that the proportion of women in cabinet is a token gesture. Your argument makes no sense. If he doesnt care about women why does he feel the need to make a token gesture of putting so many women in cabinet? Rachel Reeves is clearly central to his project.

Ffs all the mumsnet bashing that Labour aren’t the party for women then they go and make 11 of them the most important women in the country and it’s still not bloody good enough. It’s been 2 days!

I couldn't care less if they're male/female/undecided/black/brown/pink

So long as they're competent, honest, inclusive, sober and listen to the electorate.

Why are you suggesting that people of the calibre of Reeves & Cooper are not up to the job? FFS. Nandy is minister for culture,media & sport - do you know how much those areas contribute to the UK economy & profile around the world?

Excellent question! 😂

Absolutely wonderful to see the cabinet with so many excellent women in positions to actually make a difference. At last. There’s always people wanting to tear others down, but just for a moment I’m allowing myself a sense of hope in this election result.

Nandy is a very dodgy appointment. She is not intelligent at all and is hard left.

You have got to be kidding me. The far left consider her to be on the right. Do you know anything about the Labour Party?

She could have appointed women to the cabinet not for the optics but because they had intelligence and ability. Are you seriously trying to tell me there was only one intelligent, competent woman in the entire Tory party from 1979 to 1990?

Starmer’s female cabinet ministers are there because they’re high calibre, not for the optics.

The least privately educated in history.

Why are we doomed?

To be fair there was only a handful of Tory women in Parliament in Thatcher's time. She could have done more though.

Agreed. I think it’s a pretty racist suggestion actually

Yes this is sensible; and I’m pleased to see so many women in positions of power. Let’s hope for good decisions next.

You can’t buy brains, let alone the best ones. Clearly you do get the drive to succeed and compete from a comprehensive education - those government jobs weren’t dropped in their laps by the fairies.

They have just entirely successfully competed against the Tories and thrashed them. I would say that the education is holding up pretty well.

This. I’m pleased to see more women at the top but I can’t forget what these people have done to other women such a Rosie Duffield and women up and down the country who need single sex spaces or whose kids have been taken in by gender ideology.

Thie Labour cabinet is not feminist. We have a lot of work to do.

Well Labour's made a good start by winning the election with their substandard brains and despite having no drive to succeed. So they're not doing too bad!

Or maybe they weren’t the best.

Sadly it’s not uncommon for people to pretend that senior black politicians are uniquely stupid. Look at the abuse Diane Abbott has suffered over the years. She’s a Cambridge graduate yet how many times did we have to endure the ridiculous myth that she couldn’t even get her act together enough to wear a matching pair of shoes? Rooted in racism, like the allegation that Lammy’s a bit of a thicko who’ll be quietly ushered out of the cabinet once his usefulness as a symbol has passed its sell by date.