I did hope to not be the first to post this for obvious reasons. Buy as noone else will, it appears...
Harriet Harman thinks that men can no longer be trusted with running a country and thinks that one should be installed into that position even when none can earn their place in the usual route.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8180195.stm
Quote:
One of Labour's top two posts should always be held by a woman, Deputy Leader Harriet Harman has told a paper.
She does "not agree with all-male leaderships" because men "cannot be left to run things on their own" she told the Sunday Times.
A balanced team of men and women make "better decisions," she added.
The MP reportedly tried to change the party's rules to ensure a female was always in a top job shortly after winning the deputy leadership contest.
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But all is not lost. The ever sensible Ann Widdecombe has an excellent response:
Quote:
Former Conservative minister Ann Widdecombe dismissed the idea of reserving one of Labour's top posts for a woman as "remarkably silly" and said jobs should be handed out on merit.
"As long as women are in Parliament, and are good, then I don't have a view on whether the entire Cabinet is male or female," she said.
Special processes to encourage females to get to the top were "demeaning," particularly if the processes "involved positive discrimination" or "unjustified over-promotion," she added.
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The full quote is quite good but can't find it. She also said how stupid it would be if a man said that 2 women couldn't be trusted to run a country and how Harman thinks its she gets a free pass to say it because she's a woman.
I do find it crazy for someone with so much man-hatred to be in charge of anything, let alone equality.