Sour Grapefruit for Breakfast
The Tory Candidates Association is hosting a not very inclusive Female Candidates Breakfast at the party conference. It will be held on Monday 2nd, October at the Highcliffe Hotel, Bournemouth, from 7.30am - 9.30am.
Some members of the Candidates Association feel that having paid their dues it is a little bit irritating to be excluded so they have organised a rival event:
Some members of the Candidates Association feel that having paid their dues it is a little bit irritating to be excluded so they have organised a rival event:
35 comments:
Good article in Private Eye about Cameron's move to all-Labour shortlists
What about people of restricted growth, will it be positive or negative discrimination if they are placed on "short lists" ?
You're missing the point.
Us real Conservative veteran campaigners won't be up at 7.30 in the morning because there'll be no alcohol on offer and we'll all have just got to bed.
What's conservative about the Dave's Conservative party?
Pre Dave:
Treat people equally.
Post Dave:
Discriminate on Gender and Skin colour.
Pre Dave:
You know best how to spend the wealth you create.
Post Dave:
I know best how to spend the wealth you create.
Time to vote Labour as the party of on the side of the strivers? Seems I'll be switching sides after 30 years as teh Tories are now the party gripped by idealogues out of touch with real people's lives:
Boy George:
"Of course there are different options. You can tax cars - we've already got fuel duty and vehicle excise duty.
"There's the whole issue of taxing aviation. There are things like landfill taxes; there is the climate change levy, which I think should be replaced by a carbon levy on industry.
"These are all the sorts of things that we are investigating."
'Not science-fiction'
He went on: "This is completely the opposite direction to the one Gordon Brown has taken us in.
"He has reduced, as Chancellor, the share of tax take that is taken by green taxes, and we want to head in the other direction."
I like the bit about "during the bad times of the nineties and the noughties you were standing for election". Yes, and you weren't convincing enough to get elected, so don't start getting all self-righteous now that some more electable candidates are being put forward.
Boy George:
"Despite having a more industrial economy, Japan emits 90 tonnes of carbon per million dollars of GDP, compared to 125 tonnes in the UK.’
err - that's because they don't have natural resources such as coal and north sea oil, use nuclear power, and have much higher energy costs."
In case george hasn't noticed their economy has been in the pitts for 16 years with no growth He's been on the doggy sushi - what a class A Nobb.
It's not Boy George or Dave that's improved the poll figures, nor is it the A list. It's the political wheel of fortune which, as any old hand can tell you, never stops turning. Dave and BG just happened to have jumped on at the right time.
Typical male chauvinist behaviour to tke umbridge at the ladies breakfast and in a huff set up their own... just helps Blair
No sense of humour torycorrectness?Perhaps your time might be better used learning how to spell.I think you'l find the word you're looking for is umbrage.
tory correctness
Be a dear and make us all a cup of tea.
Drove through umbridge once.
It raining. And there were hoodies.
Damn that missing imperfect tense.
"You'l"?
Dave chasing windmills, George playing with train sets. Will they propose to turn the motorways into magnetic railways. Where will it all end? It sounds as if the Z list is the best bet!
Can Z-listers get around their gender trap by self-defining as lesbians?
If the Irish can self-define as black (oh yes they can, at least in the London Borough of Brent, Libber stronghold supreme), then surely tweedy tory boys can bring forth their sapphic side and wriggle lissomely onto the A List that way?
Ambridge plays left back for Chelsea.
Umbridge is Prezzaspeak for the large viaduct connecting his constituency with Scunthorpe.
Z-Listers choosing the lesbian option may find that grapefruit is not the only fruit....
If David Cameron gets away with making women do politics where will it stop? Will we have to do boring things like changing the oil in the car; adjusting the tv aerial; double digging; playing rough sports; carrying heavy suitcases? Women of Britain say No!
All very amusing, but the critics of Cameron's attempt to drag the Conservatives kicking and screaming into the late 20th century, never mind the early 21st, really need to ask themselves only one simple question; do they genuinely wish to see a Conservative government governing Britain ever again within their lifetimes? It is that simple.
The electorate want politicians who are big, loud, bold, honest, witty, charismatic who can speak without notes, who have ideas of their own and don't need advisers to tell them what to think, whose actions and thoughts don't need to be laundered by spin doctors, who can be guaranteed not to take bribes, aka party donations, and who have enough confidence not to fall prey to image consultants or speech trainers. The gender of our politicians is immaterial.
... not if they espouse centre-left socialist philosophy, Bill.
Well said, the Minx.
Yes, Bill, it is a CONSERVATIVE government that we want to see.
Minnie M 3.15: and anyone else thinking the same
a.you're not speaking for 'the electorate'.
b.Big and loud and bold is utterly irritating and I'm not the only one to think so.
c.You can speak for the electorate once you've set up a referendum.
Thank you.
doctor fegg...werent convincing enough to get elected....with a campaign devised by...errr...David Cameron.....
Minnie the Minx
I've long since given up any hope of my missus indulding in a spot of double digging.
She just recoils and says "no - it's dirty, and I'll probably put my back out".
Alas, I'm left to tend to my prized marrow all by myself.
Still, my plums are swelling nicely, and turning a nice shade of purple. Best go and get my hands on them now, before too many wasps are attracted.
Or before it's illegal.
Female Candidates Breakfast at the party conference.
Breakfast in bed.....I hope !
Minnie the minx said...
The electorate want politicians who are big, loud, bold, honest, witty, charismatic who can speak without notes, who have ideas of their own and don't need advisers to tell them what to think, whose actions and thoughts don't need to be laundered by spin doctors, who can be guaranteed not to take bribes, aka party donations, and who have enough confidence not to fall prey to image consultants or speech trainers. The gender of our politicians is immaterial.3:15 PM
Well said minnie,Galloway for Prime Minister.
Richards, I have an excellent recipe for plums. You need to impale them on a skewer and rotate slowly over hot coals. As soon as they are black, dry and shrivelled crush them in a pestle and mortar and throw outside. They are exc ellent for bid droppings from flagstones.
As a heterosexual, married, middle aged, white, christian, Tory candidate not on the A List and who has slugged their guts out for a party which now doesn't give a shit for them, can I say Guido that you speak for the majority of the party on this. Well done and keep up the good work!
MTM
thanks, sounds divine. To be washed down with lashings of ginger beer.
Now, do you have a similar recipe for chipolatas?
If so, do tell. I'll have them up on a website before you can say Sex Offenders Register...
But... "They are exc ellent for bid droppings from flagstones". ??. Bid Droppings, eh? What we need here is a Dome Pudding.
My god those boys sound incredibly tense and bitchy. It must be that time of the month. They are really making headway closing this gender gap, if not in a way they intended.
Ex Tory PPC said...
As a heterosexual, married, middle aged, white, christian, Tory candidate not on the A List and who has slugged their guts out for a party which now doesn't give a shit for them, can I say Guido that you speak for the majority of the party on this. Well done and keep up the good work!
10:22 PM
As a heterosexual, married, 40-something, white, Christian Civil Servant I can assue you that that's exactly how I and many others feel at the moment - the people equal rights forgot.
Death to all Cultural Marxists!
anonymous at 5.46pm - point taken :)
No word I presume from the Candidates Department on this.
I suspect, they're either conducting a 'witch-hunt' looking through their 'files' to find the offender or are too busy burning their bras in horror that someone had the audacity to criticise their sexism.
Can you imagine if CCHQ organised a men-only breakfast? It'd be picketed by the same man-haters who used to be at my student union and now work for the EOC or the Candidates Department.
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