Layla Moran on Nick Robinson's Political Thinking on Radio 4

[nauticant]

He asked her "What is a woman?" You can imagine how that went. "Word soup" would be a kind assessment.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08lqgvv

You are a better person than me @Shedbuilder. You're quite right too, I think, in your reading of how she's come to be the adult she is now.

But I cannot feel sympathy for a woman who is prepared to throw every other woman under the bus. I just don't have it in me.

I don't know why she's gone into politics.

She said in the interview that it was because she wanted to influence education policy (having just realised that children from disadvantaged backgrounds were also disadvantaged when it comes to education).

Ah, thanks for the reminder. I'm not sure that rang true with me, which is why I forgot it. I may have been temporarily distracted, but I don't remember her talking with any great passion about her students or this sudden realisation that not everyone is middle class.

Did she teach at some particularly disadvantaged schools then? I looked at Wikipedia, and it didn't seem to be the case, but I'm just off to bed, so didn't look in detail!

Maybe her idea of particularly disadvantaged kids was those without a second home in the cotswolds?

The reference to disadvantaged kids was about this, which I posted earlier:

Another thing she said in the interview was that it wasn't until she was doing a masters in education that she realised that there were poor people in the UK, and that the outcome for children from impoverished backgrounds was strongly linked to the socio-economic background of their parents.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3435643-Womens-Hour-today-Michelle-Moore-and-Layla-Moran-on-safeguarding?

Previous thread - check out page 5.

If she thinks female/male is biology and woman/man is gender , maybe she should say transfemale. If she dares.

I just had a Yougov where I was asked to identify two "famous politicians"
Ed TWAW Davey
and
Labour are there poor people Moran

I'd LOVE to know what the outcome of that survey is