Thanks. Now I have an image of Corbyn in a white bikini.
How do you think theyāll get on in Scotland Furbs?
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Originally posted by @pap
Maybe the women simply arenāt good enough, if Abbot is employed there is a worry.
Originally posted by @pap
Is the point not that he said 50% of his shadow cabinet would be women?
Yes, he did, and he did it here.
Deception and lies this early into his leadership - this is a major faux pas even by Labourās high standards of shooting themselves in their rather oversized clown feet.
31 cabinet members. 16 female, 15 male. Bone up or go home, Cherts 
LOL, MEGAFAIL (turns out I canāt readā¦).
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I was away over the weekend, so Iām playing catch up a bit on the reaction.
Got to admit the right-wing press are utterly hilarious. Going into overdrive, to tell us simultaneously how pathetic, yet how dangerous Corbyn is. This really is straight out of the right-wing attack book. Identify an enemy, declare them incompetent and useless yet entirely powerful and scary. Throw as much shit as possible as quickly as possible. Facts donāt matter, it doesnāt matter if what you are throwing is correct, people will buy it.
Amazing as well that on the day Corbyn appoints a dedicated Shadow Minister for Mental Health (granted Iām biased, but a good move imo) The Daily Telegraph describes the new Shadow Chancellor as a ānutjobā. Before climbing down and referring to him as āfrom cloud cuckoo landā. Classy.
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Yes but arenāt the really, really important people in the Trotsky Council all male? Isnāt that what the Telegraph were pointing out?
Yes, so despite there being 15 men and 16 women, 0% of the women get the real roles, whilst 33.3333333333333333333333recurring% of the blokes
Originally posted by @BTripz
Originally posted by @pap
31 cabinet members. 16 female, 15 male. Bone up or go home, Cherts
Yes but arenāt the really, really important people in the Trotsky Council mostly male? Isnāt that what the Telegraph were pointing out?
It really depends on whether you buy the defence offered by Corbyn and company, which is that the ministries that deal with other areas of policy are just as, if not more important.
He met his pledge to have a 50% female cabinet. Heās got his main ally in the Chancellor spot and his defeated rival as Shadow Home Secretary. Who knows? He may have been able to select more experienced women for those roles had fewer of them decided to take their balls with them and go home.
If only 42% of Labour MPs are women, then women are over represented on the top table - there should only be 13 women ministers.
In Scotland? They only have one MP to lose, so thereās barely any room for doing any worse. And Corbynās promise to āspend one day a month in Scotlandā in the lead up to the Scottish elections is laughably inadequate (unless he thinks the partyās performance in Scotland is in inverse relationship to his presence, which would be true).
The more important regions in terms of a supposed Labour revival is the north of England and the midlands. Even without the Corbynites trashing the party it was going to be difficult. In those places he has no chance. Labour will exist as a rump party in London - itāll be the only region in the country to have a significant concentration of Labour MPs.
All in my most humble opinion.
This man is really under the microscope thatās for sure.
Heās not really though, sfcsim. The last two pages of cartoon paranoia would certainly suggest that Corbynites believe Kim Il Corbyn should be accorded the status of a commentariatās Faberge egg. Actually the papers are as damning of other leaders - the Corbynites just choose to ignore it or simply assume itās true.
Theyāre all a bit precious, frankly. Poor loves.
Good work from Jeremy not singing the National anthem, losing potential votes already.
I would say the majority of papers in general have it in for the Labour Party. The last great leader was not allowed to eat, or talk to an outspoken hairy person. This one is having his words twisted all over the place and was not singing. Perhaps he stopped for a reason? The media are defiantly mostly leaning to the right and this includes TV. I noticed this during the election results. The man is of course under the microscope as he is the new leader of the Labour Party. A party that are lacking in identity and direction at this moment in time, but seriously!
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Ah yes, Iāll agree with some of that. sfc. Labour has traditionally been the bete noir of the national press. Anyone, though, who thinks Corbyn is getting harder ride than Miliband, or Kinnock, or Foot, or Wilson and Callaghan, has had too many fruitloops.
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I think the correct term is āsnookeredā.
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