The female of the species is more deadly than the male. While several of the worst offending male MPs in sleazegate have announced that they will stand down at the next election, the females all continue to tough it out. While the men caught with their hands in the till have appeared shamefaced, the women have defended themselves shrilly.
Nowhere has this contrast been more sharp than in the case of Andrew Mackay and Julie Kirkbride, who are guilty of the same offence in the most literal sense. Husband and wife, both MPs, they lived together and each claimed a second home allowance.
He has announced he will stand down. She is battling on. What is that about? It is made worse by the additional, though comparatively minor, complication that it is her brother who was living, against the rules, at one of their homes.
Kirkbride is just one example.
The shrill fool Nadine Dorries, after lying about where she mainly lives and deliberately concealing from her constituents that she did not live in the constituency, tells us she feels got at. The horrible Hazel Blears still continues to bounce right into our faces. There is a good argument that Margaret Moran is the most blatant abuser of the rules to get money, and abuser of her position for her lobbying company. She shows no sign of going voluntarily at all.
You have to pinch yourself to believe that Tessa Jowell is still in the Cabinet after laundering, through her joint mortgage, money that has been proven in court to come from crime.
Steen, Mackay, Viggers, Martin, Chapman and others are going. The women so far just will not go. Their behaviour is so hideous, they will be putting back the cause of women in politics for a generation.
I think the phrase brazen hussies, selected with due care and attention, is in fact totally appropriate.
Stirring it up on a holiday weekend will add to the entertainment. Having just listened to Clive James’s “Point of View” on female parliamentarians in Kuwait and Iraq (he’s of course in favour but chides some feminists with lack of sisterly support), I’ll be intrigued to find which of you gets the bigger postbag and how it splits between criticism and support.
Several theories could explain the gender differences on allowances. If it is true that women are the homemakers, perhaps some of the male MPs had been nagged by their wives [oops, apologies Sue] to use more of their allowances for home improvements. They can’t say that in their defence, and in any case they may feel a bit shamefaced at their typical male weakness of will.
Female MPs will often have had a tougher time getting selected and thus be less inclined to give it all up. So, I’m not surprised that Tessa is still there. However, the blame for her hands still being on the tiller of a major spending job rests with Gordon Brown’s defective moral compass. Do you think there was a secret deal between Blair (looking forward to more Italian holidays) and Brown that the former would only go quietly if his favourite lady-in-waiting was kept on by the latter, come what may? Probably not true, but it ought to be.
Dawn Butler, Labour MP for Brent South, is another. She has claimed £60,000 for a second home allowance, although her family home is only a few miles away and no further from Westminster. A local non-party “Pay it Back” campaign has been launched.
Perhaps with the exception of Jenny Tonge, the female MP’s have always overcompensated their penis envy.
Feminism is really coming home to roost now. How many more ‘lost generations’ of youth will get get through before we persoanlly realise why it is we are being bitten?
Valid point that those MPs are battling on, but you can’t claim a sample of four as somehow being representative of how female polticians in general respond to being caught with their pants down. As for the slur any women are ‘shrill’ or ‘brazen hussies’ – the lowest form of sexism.
Generalising wildly, I’d say that women tend to be more ‘realistic’ in life and that men tend to be ‘dreamers’.
…..women will recognise and internalise the culture of somewhere like the House of Commons, including its fraudulence and hypocricies, quite readily. It is therefore understandable that someone like Nadine Dorries should react to MP’s being found out in the way she did.
A man likes to imagine he is operating according to strict principle and often, within the confines of his own deluded consciousness, he is.
If he gets slack and is publicly seen to violate principle then another ‘principle’, “of honour”, tends to kick in……and he will go.
‘Principle’ of this kind in public life is less of a problem for women……
……who, let’s be kind, know its all a ‘crock of hypocritical s*it’ anyway…..and just another round in the dirty battle for popularity that politics is and always will be.
That grinning horror, Blears, will go at exactly the moment when she realises she has no choice.
18 May 2009
“Noses in troughs”…
http://tinyurl.com/pogbea
As a woman I am so depressed. Why is it that only arrogant, vile women seem to reach the top in politics or business?
The woman aren’t coping well with the spin, lies and “Boys’ Club” mentality – in order to fit in they become more male than the men: they grow bollocks the size of melons. They’re not women anymore.
Hazel Blears makes me shiver every time I see her on TV. Blerghghghgh.
As a man I am so depressed. Why is it that only pathetic, puerile men seem to reach the top in politics or business?
The men aren’t coping well with the reality, truth and “Feminist Club” mentality- in order to fit in they become more female than women: they frow tits the size of melons. They’re not men anymore.
David Cameron makes me shiver every time I see him on TV. Blerghghghgh.
Let us not forget who owns “The Daily Telegraph” and what their political aims are…
http://tinyurl.com/ogkkkw
Once upon a time, a fisherman and his wife lived in a pisspot. One day he caught a magic fish, that spoke, promising the fisherman all his desires if the man let the fish go free.
Upon his return home, he told his wife all about the magic fish. She went beside herself, she beat him over the head with her rolling pin, and smashed his beloved fishing gear; she phoned up the 24hr DivorceLine number to receive an instant marriage annulment, with child custody and the house/pisspot; the police came round to throw him in prison for being with the divorce exclusion zone.
He wished to have what other men have!
Be careful what you wish for.
It may be that a male-dominated world, filled with the biased assumption that women are “weak”, filters out any women who are considered “weak” more aggressively than it filters out “weak” men. The end result is that a female politician is more likely to be a shameless egomaniac than a male politician.
It may also be that the women are overcompensating for the perceived “weakness” of their gender as Kerry suggests.
amk,
Is being greedy a sign of strength; or put another way, is being generous a sign of weakness?
Refusing to compromise could be seen as strength, admitting mistakes could be seen as weakness.
Shouldn’t be, but could be.
amk,
So feminists will be voting for Bart Simpson in the next election!?
“Malalai Joya, “bravest woman in Afghanistan”…
http://tinyurl.com/qqlmjz
Craig you do make me laugh but I suppose you are just as much a product of this capitalist society as those in Parliament are. You think you’re being controversial at times when in fact you’re just being a bit blinkered.
Incidentally, I find it fascinating that some people actually voted for Hazel Blears – was her opponent a lump of turd or something?
JB
I’d vote for the lump of turd 🙂
Come to think of it, me too!
Dunwoody, Boothroyd, Mowlam, Thatcher, Castle
However you view their strengths and weaknesses they were formidable parliamentarians.
Perhaps part of the reason those other grasping women MPs cling and argue is that they might have a background where winning the argument was regarded the same as being right, so they cling on to outlast their opponents and thereby become ‘right’.
You can see how such a trait might benefit them in a touch-feely spin parliament, rather than one which valued the truth.
The real issue here is not male or female. It is not about resigning or being fired – or even more blatantly clinging on. Some of the examples that have been highlighted are a case of blatant Criminal Fraud.
But like The Catholic Priests Who FUCK Children ref http://www.fknnewz.com follow the links and you find that it is actually true – and self documented by the Catholic Church…..
It is CRIMINAL
But The Criminal Catholic Priest Get Protected By The ESTABLISMENT of The Catholic Church in Ireland – and no doubt in the UK Too
And The Criminal MP’s Get Protected by The UK Govt ESTABLISHMENT
If Jail Is Good Enough For Lester Piggot
For Fiddling His Taxes “In 1987 he was jailed for 3 years, of which he served 366 days, for tax irregularities.”, then it is Good Enough For At Least The Worse Criminal In The House of Commons.
Why Haven’t They Been Arrested and Charged?
Children Learn From The Example Set By Their Parents.
Society Learns By The Example Set By Their Leaders in Government.
You Are DISGUSTING.
Tony
How I miss the likes of Barbara Castle. You’re correct, Derek P. Most of the present bunch, male or female, especially the ones in the Cabinet, don’t deserve to shine her shoes.
Their behaviour is so hideous, they will be putting back the cause of women in politics for a generation.
What? Why?
Will the more hideous behaviour of Lords Taylor and Truscott put back the cause of men in politics for a generation? If not, why should one gender be judged by the standards of some of its more corrupt individuals and not the other? It makes no sense to say that, Mr Murray.
McDuff,
You’re right, no group should be judged on the performance of some individuals, but on the performance of the majority of that group.
Now what group do you think is responsible for the disaster of our education system, the male group, or the feminist group?
Getting back to the MPs, although they are only few in number, and cannot constitute a proof by representation, there was no tendency for contrition shown by any of the feminist MPs; whereas there is a demonstration of contrition by the men in similar circumstances. Therefore we can conclude that the feminist MPs have it all to prove; so far they are wanton and wanting.
JimmyGiro, your petty distaste for women is matched only by the incoherence of your arguments. Godspeed.
McDudd,
If you cared anything about women, then you would care that they are good.
What group should be judged responsible for the “disaster” of our education system? To the extent that it is a disaster, how about legislators? The people who set budgets? Or the voters who voted those legislators in?
Believe it or not, not every problem in society can be blamed on uppity women. I know that interferes with your passive aggressive mummy issues to acknowledge, but maybe you should try blaming someone else for shit you don’t like for a change. “Feminists” did not personally shit in your cornflakes. Also, despite the supposed supernatural powers you ascribe to feminism, the most powerful people in the world are still largely male and not that progressive at all. So not only is it stupid to keep blaming feminism for any strawman you can think of, it also just comes across as totally whiny and self-indulgent.
And what exactly is progressive about misanthropy:-
The white feathers of the ‘suffragettes’?
Ritalin for ‘naughty’ boys?
The rise of the parvenues?
Feminists, like yourself, are to blame for societies woes; and further more, I believe they are bringing about a new dark age, by their insistences to criminalise male behaviour.
Poor old Eve… Jimmy, you need to meet Lilith.
Does she give good blow jobs?