If anyone has access to or influence over Sarah Brown

[purplepeony]

please tell her to cover her knees.

(Sarah if you are lurking, please read.)

Yes, I know this is bitchy but I feel embarrassed for her; she does not have good legs and the dresses she has worn this week show too much knee, by at least 3 inches.

Who daren't tell her?

And her colours today- navy dress, black jacket(?) beige shoes and what looks like a white handbag.

I am avidly interested in the substance not just the style of politics, but please- these people have advisors and she was in PR- will someone please tell her?

I agree Aitch (Fab first roundup, btw. Congrats).

Why should we hide our less attractive body parts just so that others are not offended by them?

If we were to suggest that to Boris Johnson, he would have to wear a burka.

lol good point about BoJo

He looks a shambles.

'I only care about her policies'

Very noble, but she is not a politician, she is a consort. Twittering about various causes does not mean that she has policies.

and yet that's part of the reason why people like him, they perceive that shambolic-ness as some kind of authenticity. whereas for women...

A consort! How rude.

Isn't that his USP though, I think he loves to be thought of as a bit bumbling, a bit scruffy in a loads of dough way.

I really fancy BoJo

i mean how extraordinary, really, that someone's KNEES are a source of disgrace and shame. lol.

cross posty ATZ.

Yes. A female Boris (wanted to abbreviate but thought that BJ would not be appropriate) would be vilified in the press.

how is it rude to say she is a consort? What would you call her position in the labour party?

She is just a wife then? That is her lot in life is it?

i quite like the word consort. queen consort etc. is it a bad thing?

That is her role with regards to the election, yes.

doesn't seem to be. old fashioned a word as it is, i think SB is not unfairly represented as a consort.

Exactly Aitch and MmeL - double standards ahoy

"Horrific"? Bloody hell you are a delicate flower if you think her knees are horrific.

Maybe she thinks she looks nice, maybe she doesn't care what she looks like., maybe she lives in hope that people will remember she is not running for office and her knees really don't have any basis on anything.

Yes I like consort, it sounds kind of regal and makes me think of conspiratorial "consorting" and also "cavorting". Can't be bad.

Consort is not so bad as my title, according to DH's company.

Trailing Spouse.

was that to me, fab? have you actually read any of my posts?

Consort makes me think of the faithful little wife ready to rub her husband's feet after a hard day's work. She is his partner surely?

lol at trailing spouse

I think her role in the election campaign is Gordon Brown's consort. His partner is Peter Mandelson

i don't think the two things are mutually exclusive, though, and in the context of the election i don't think it's an unfair representation. i can see why you might object, though, i just don't.

lol at mandy.