It's all down to the blokes
- 19 September 2011 21:43127299good to see a sensible level headed politician in our cobbled together government.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2039232/Lib-Dem-Lynne-Featherstone-says-mens-bad-decisions-blame-worlds-problems.html - 19 September 2011 21:48127301I must agree with Mrs. Featherstone, one can only trust female beings with economy, this is a fact known to me
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Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - 20 September 2011 07:14127323Well I thought that speech from Lynne Featherstone was very odd indeed. It was like she was viewing the world from down the end of a long dark tunnel. Some people, particularly fellow politicians, have said it was just ridiculous and who could argue. Blaming men for existing or for being out there earning a crust for centuries seems highly odd. The doers and go-getters always make mistakes, no matter what sex they are, but thats good. Mistakes are good as then we know people are pushing the boundaries. The wise ones dont repeat the mistakes.
Featherstone was trying to champion womens causes but the whole thing misfired in the dullest speech imagineable.. a real substitute for mogadon.
But the very same day Chris Patten, one time top Tory politician, now governer of the BBC said there wasnt enough women in top posts on TV etc. I wondered what these people Patten and Featherstone are up to, are they looking for an easy headline...
I was amused by Chris Pattens remarks as he clearly doesnt watch his own channel..I had just watched the News read by a woman, followed by the weather read by a woman, followed by the local news read by a women, followed by the local weather read by a woman, followed by the football presented by a woman..are there any geezers out there!?
email: dover7@msn.com - 20 September 2011 07:58127326Reading the news and weather are not exactly top posts in the BBC PaulB. I do not know if he has a point about the number of women in top positions but regardless, such posts should only be gained on merit regardless of sex, race or whatever. I did see a Talkback interview with him of BBC World last week and he did talk a fair bit of sense though Patten was never exactly a favourite of mine among Mrs T's ministers.
As for Featherstone, a total crank, daft as a brush. - 20 September 2011 08:14127329what i find worrying is how people like ms featherstone reach the higher echelons of government.
what would have happened if she started blaming black people for the state of the economy? - 20 September 2011 08:51127344We had a woman in the top job for some years and look what happened!!!
- 20 September 2011 09:08127355Yes indeed Mark - she saved our economy from the last Labour disaster. Let us hope that DC does as good a job.
- 20 September 2011 09:16127357Good to have you back, Barry!
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20 September 2011 14:52127380It's fair to say that barryw and i can agree on mrs featherstones comment are nowt but crancky, i cant speak for her as a politician as dont know enough about her, but i do know that positive discriminatin is not the way forward.
there are a number of women who have reached top levels and maggie being one of them , although barryw and i won't agree on how lovely she was(maggie divided the country like no other person could have done, and we are still suffering from that and her in action) plus much more, much never the less she did get to her dizzy heights not because she was A woman but because of ability.ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 20 September 2011 15:05127388didn't see it as about positive discrimination keith, just a nasty comment from a politician that craves publicity.
the only way that she got to her position is by the fact there are so few yellow m.p.'s and dave had to take on some to form a government. - Keith Sansum1
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20 September 2011 15:12127391oh shes a lib dem says it allALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 20 September 2011 20:10127459#6 and #8 - indeed!!
- 20 September 2011 20:30127472Yes, sill and attention seeking.
Funny how the right hand side of the page is just full of 'femail' links to pictures of women in various states of undress.
Who needs an Equalities Minister when we have the Daily Mail.