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

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Cinnamon77 · 30/10/2025 06:34

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?

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luckylavender · 12/11/2025 15:51

Cinnamon77 · 30/10/2025 06:34

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?

Some of those are quite weak & divisive

CoffeeCantata · 12/11/2025 17:20

LaserPumpkin · 12/11/2025 13:29

We had a PM with hair like Boris Johnson’s. Didn’t see pp criticising him. At least not for his hair.

Edited

Are you suggesting that Boris Johnson’s hair was in any way sexually attractive?😳🤣

Boris Johnson might have tried all kinds of tricksy gimmicks, but wowing the laydeez with his hair….I don’t think so!

CoffeeCantata · 12/11/2025 17:27

Finto1111 · 12/11/2025 14:24

I am a woman.

You?

I think it’s a mistaken belief that women will automatically support other women in politics, and men will oppose women. Some women politicians were notoriously unhelpful to their own gender!

LaserPumpkin · 12/11/2025 17:50

CoffeeCantata · 12/11/2025 17:20

Are you suggesting that Boris Johnson’s hair was in any way sexually attractive?😳🤣

Boris Johnson might have tried all kinds of tricksy gimmicks, but wowing the laydeez with his hair….I don’t think so!

Evidence suggests that several women have found him sexually attractive… although I am definitely not one of them!

I’d missed the comment about AR’s hair designed to make her look sexually attractive. It’s just hair 🤷 (and better than Boris’s)

BlueJuniper94 · 12/11/2025 18:05

LaserPumpkin · 12/11/2025 13:29

We had a PM with hair like Boris Johnson’s. Didn’t see pp criticising him. At least not for his hair.

Edited

He was very regularly ridiculed for his unkempt appearance. He was criticised. As is his American counterpart Trump.

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