A gift for International Women’s Day!

It’s International Women’s Day. A flurry of activity in cyberspace, mass blog postings for the occasion. Labourlist.org had Gaby Hinsliff in as guest editor, I wrote an article.

GuidoFawkes, leading Tory blogger-not quite aware of the  Conservative Party’s  quest to attract the ‘female vote’.

Take a look at this, from the post tagged ‘totty’ to the comments, which apparently are not worth challenging.... It’s a gift for those of us who are trying to decide who to vote for. An absolute gift. If there was ever a site that more clearly demonstrated the danger of politics being an ‘all boys club’, I don’t think I have seen it.

It is probably quite unpleasant for Jo Swinson, but at least it brings into relief how the Conservative Party view women.

Secret Ballots and a Daily Fail shocker.

Apparently Samantha Cameron may not vote Tory.

I know, for the Daily Mail, it is a shocker that a woman may not vote under instruction of her husband. Imagine, a woman fully able to evaluate how ready a political party is to govern the country, without her clever ‘ole husband helping her.

I wonder what sources the Daily Mail are using to reveal which box Samantha Cameron ticks on the secret ballot. Maybe someone at the Fail decided that the secret ballot, which has been seen as a key factor in fair democratic elections since the Chartist movement, really shouldn’t be available to women….we should probably be supervised.

But while this awesome responsibility is available to silly old us, how about this- you don’t get to make a story out of what happens in the ballot box. The way Samantha Cameron votes, is her business.  Not her husbands. Not the Daily Mail’s. Not mine.

And if there were ever a story that was irrelevant to this election campaign……