To think it's time for a woman to be Prime Minister

[Cinnamon77]

It doesn't look like Starmer is going to be PM for much longer but all the favourites to replace him are men.

Every female PM we've had has been Conservative - no woman has ever led the Labour Party before.

Wouldn't it be an improvement to have a left wing woman running the country, like we've seen elsewhere? There are many good female MPs in Labour like Raynor, Mahmood, Huq, Phillips, Siddiq, Leadbeater, Thornberry, Dodds, Kendall, Haigh, Butler and Reeves (Ellie, not Rachel).

Why aren't any of them contenders and wouldn't we be doing better if one of them was in charge?

Whoever is in charge will make absolutely no difference, it’s just a distraction while moving the decks chairs.

Labour has a serious problem with women.
They have never voted a woman to be a leader (Harman was a caretaker leader and not voted in) and I firmly believe a good % of their members are ideologically opposed to it.

Raynor as PM?!

You've had Truss and May, what was wrong with them?

Why does it have to be a woman

I think you mean Harriet Harman

I don’t disagree with most of your thinking… but interested in why you have Tulip Siddiq on the list? She was a fairly average junior minister before being found to be seriously corrupt.

Dawn Butler as PM 🤭

Doesn’t matter who it is. They are all full of shit.

Thats the one!

Margaret Beckett too. Labour has an interesting history of letting women play at being leader then choosing a man to do it for real.

Emily Thornberry, really!

I can’t get past ‘What was wrong with them?’ Add Thatcher to the list…..Oh dear.

Are you seriously asking what was wrong with Liz Truss?

Truss and May were right wing.

Why can't we have a left wing woman as PM?

She seemed impressive when she spoke and we've never had an ethnic minority woman as PM before

Thatcher was a Conservative MP, not Labour

Judge people by the content of their character and not the colour of their skin.

Siddiq is one heck of a liability.

That’s a good question for the Labour Party. Why do they not have female leaders unlike other parties?
Also some of those women you’ve quoted I would trust to run a bath, never mind the country.

Because the Labour Party is pretty sexist, ironically for all their inclusivity.

It will make no difference and it's naive to think it will.

To be honest I’m not bothered if we have a man or a woman, I just want someone who knows what they’re doing and actually listens to the electorate.

We’re going to end up with Farage at this point, how embarrassing.

Starmer will remain PM.

The country is broke after Tory rule and no-one from any party knows how to fix Britain. Sadly.

I just want someone who knows what they’re doing and actually listens to the electorate.

What are the electorate saying exactly? That the NHS is not fit for purpose but don't you dare raise income tax to improve it?

Deport illegal immigrants. Oh no, be kind to the poor things!

Protect women's rights. If a man says he's a woman - he is!

We have no idea what we want, just that we don't want what we've got.

So throw any random woman in there she will automatically be better, does not make a good pm

As were Truss and May. All three were disastrous. Your sex does not determine your capability. I would support any capable Labour candidate.

It was a joke about female PMs to highlight the peculiarity of the post