Sending along an article from Murdoch's British flagship The Times: The Speaker of the House of commons (who was originally elected as a Tory) is married to a woman who is standing as a candidate for Labour. She decided, the tabloid press being what it is, to air all her skeletons in advance - namely that she is a recovering alcoholic (she doesn't use the phrase, but it's pretty clear from the article) and that she had casual sex before marriage.Indeed! Imagine the state of Britain today if Lord Thatcher hadn't kept "The Boss" in line while allowing her to lead the Tories for more than a decade!
The sad and predictable reaction - in an on-the-record quote (by a woman MP!) was:
"How can we ask the people to trust us, when the man who holds us to account has such poor judgment that he allowed his wife to give such an appalling, self-obsessed interview?" [my emphasis].
Aside from what this comment reveals about what the Tories (conservatives) broadly think about gender equality, it's also indicative of their belief about how Britain should be governed: By an iron-fisted leader whose first order of business is to control the people. And any man who can't control his woman isn't fit for the job.
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