The Labour Leadership Contest

[poliphilo]

Milliband, Milliband, Balls- three unhealthy-looking young men with starey eyes- all deeply compromised by their membership of the last government. I feel a revulsion that is almost physical. I wouldn't care to shake their hands.   

Burnham- I don't know much about Burnham except that he was questioned the other day about his support in government for something he now condemns- and his stuttering defence was that he's a team player and proud of it.

And then there's Abbot- a woman with a mind of her own.

Guess which one of them isn't being taken seriously.

Comments

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

It's the old story -- most men in a male-dominated society really DO take such a woman seriously -- and they fear "a woman with a mind of her own." Hence the dismissal...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Abbot is also unabashedly leftwing. Oh, and to complicate things further, she's black.