From @LabourList
Below is the cutting resignation letter from Caroline Flint to Gordon Brown, which accuses the Prime Minister of sexism:
Dear Gordon
I believe the achievements of the Labour Government to date have been monumental and you have played an immense part in the creation of those achievements.
However, I am extremely disappointed at your failure to have an inclusive Government.
You have a two tier Government. Your inner circle and then the remainder of Cabinet.
I have the greatest respect for the women who have served as full members of Cabinet and for those who attend as and when required. However, few are allowed into your inner circle. Several of the women attending Cabinet – myself included – have been treated by you as little more than female window dressing. I am not willing to attend Cabinet in a peripheral capacity any longer.
In my current role, you advised that I would attend Cabinet when Europe was on the agenda. I have only been invited once since October and not to a single political Cabinet - not even the one held a few weeks before the European elections.
Having worked hard during this campaign, I would not have been party to any plan to undermine you or the Labour Party in the run up to 4 June. So I was extremely angry and disappointed to see newspapers briefed with invented stories of my involvement in a “Pugin Room plot.”
Time and time again I have stepped before the cameras to sincerely defend your reputation in the interests of the Labour Party and the Government as a whole. I am a natural party loyalist. Yet you have strained every sinew of that loyalty.
It has been apparent for some time that you do not see me playing a more influential role in the Government. Therefore, I have respectfully declined your offer to continue in the Government as Minister for attending Cabinet.
I served six years as a backbencher and, therefore, I am not unhappy to be able to devote myself to promoting my constituency’s interests and to support the Labour Government from the backbenches.
This is a personal decision, which I have not discussed with colleagues.
Yours
Caroline
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Totty in action
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tty39v14IM
Says it all really.....
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/05/15/article-0-04F54C5A000005DC-252_634x379_popup.jpg
I think now she has had her public tantrum she will very soon be forgotten. Hopefully like that other member of the "Division Belles" (I'm not joking) Hazel Blears they will lose their seats at the next election and they can devote more time to tap-dancing, which is just about all they are fit for. Perhaps Purnell and Hutton could join them for a soft-shoe shuffle.
SAD SAD comment.
So that would be illegal wars, lying to parliament to get them to support illegal wars. Dismantling our education system. Removing any elements of personal liberties. Spying on the population of the country. Appeasing fundamentalists and failing to defend free speech. I could go on.
Monumental indeed the most reactionary government since the Reform act. And now the final insult, the actual membership of the government contains more unelected people than at any time since the reform act.
Goodbye and good riddance to Caroline Flint and all the other self centred tossers. Lets hope Mandy and Gordie won't be far behind.
If she doesn't want to be treated as totty she shouldn't act the role so convincingly.
Anyway, Dale mused on Sky last night whether or not Brown was demonstrating the symptoms of a breakdown during another execrable press conference. I think the answer to that is yes. Gordon Brown, lying through his teeth, grinning like a loon and in total denial, has clearly descended into paranoid delusion. At least Caligula was actually able to make his horse a Consul ...
"I think this is a full list of the unelected members of HM Government, literally "lording" it over us. Others please feel free to add to it."
Lord Mandelson
Lord Sugar
Lady Kinnock
Lord Myners
Baroness Vadera
Lord Davies
Lord Carter
Lord Adonis
Baroness Andrews
Lord Bach
Lord Darzi
Lord Davidson
Lord Hunt
Lord McKenzie
Lord Malloch-Brown
Baroness Morgan
Baroness Royall
Baroness Scotland
Baroness Taylor
Lord West
Lord Young
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Conclusion:
The PLP seemingly doesn't have enough talent to provide the necessary people - and obviously not enough backbone to demand that a Labour government should comprise chiefly of elected members.
She protests her undying loyalty then flounces off 24 hours later when she doesn't get a plum job. Motives clearly venal. And - what a surprise, she then plays the sexist card.
Its probably true Brown doesn't like women very much so there is a kind of poetic justice in all these misandrist Labour wimmin getting their comeuppance from a misogynist.
Die by ... well what do you expect?
Well wouldn,t you want a big bung to go and work for Mr Disaster
June 2007
Brown "I think we're moving from a period when celebrity matters
Ha
A term synonymous with overpriced, badly specified, corruptly procured, over schedule, disaster.
What do you think will happen by Monday?
Listening to Harriet on tonight’s C4 News defend the fact that there are now only 4 females in the cabinet was a sheer and unadulterated delight.
oooooooooo the inner turmoil
This week it has been a large boil has been lanced off Labour's backside, and all the pus has drained away...
Another way of putting this, beyond Gordon Brown's raw power he has zero influence on people. No one buys into his charisma, wisdom or ideals. He has power but not leadership, position but not authority. He is a lame duck and the kindest thing would be to put him out of his misery.
Anyone in the Labour party with a shred of integrity would agree that for the good of the country this failed non-entity has to resign with immediate effect.
Apparently Flint thought that by backing Brown she would be offered a cabinet job, when she wasn't she had a tantrum - hence the resignation and her ungracious resignation letter (though slightly less impolite than that of Blears - the one they call "Wa Gob"!
Why else would he appoint unelected placemen/women like the shop-soiled G. Kinnock?
No real loss. How she ever graduated from being a part-time cashier at Morrison's to becoming an MP in the first place remains a mystery.
(Funny, I've not noticed any comments along the lines of "Hell hath no fury.... ")
Oh Max come on… nothing wrong with decorating the room with a bit of “till girl tottie”
How else would you neutralise the dementors.
Having seen last week's QT, I assume that once Flint opened her mouth the dementors would run screaming for the exits...
Well Tottie isn’t supposed to exceed its design envelope and actually speak, let alone on air.
Who let her do that I wonder?
He refused to promote Flint any further beyond here abilities than he already had !!
Shame about the rest of his cabinet, but there you go.
rubbish, or failing rock groups (second
on the bill to puppets) claiming the departed
guitarist was a waste of space before launching into Jazz Odyssey.
Look at the high class new blood replacing Flint and purnell (not themselves the sharpest tools in the box).
la kinnock. s'ralan. bob ainsworth, for god's sake. it's the sound of the barrel being scraped.
and Flint's accusations about a two tier cabinet and about women
as decoration are bang on the money.
Women as window dressing, I think Baroness Vadera would disagree but she's not allowed near a tv camera ever since the 'green shoots' episode.
As for the two tier cabinet? Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
Tony Blair didn't exactly consult widely did he? If you could fit them on a sofa, that was enough.
And as for the opposition?
In other respects, however, Project Cameron is built around far too tight a circle. Frontbenchers complain that they are not involved in their development of their policy briefs. Very few of the party's big economic brains have been actively consulted by the leadership on the current challenges. The shadow cabinet rarely takes important decisions.
Taken from ConservativeHome (27/10/2008)
a) I'm not a Tory.
b) she's definitely not my type. I have standards.
Brown is finished, and to the apologists, all the words in support of Brown - perhaps you want to reflect on what you said and why you said it.
She has always played on her looks. here is the woman who suggested people who were unemployed should not be considered for social housing. The woman who admitted, while Eue te Minister that she hadn't bothered to read the treaty documents. Another closet Tory flounces out: perhaps like Hutton and Purnell she should cross the floor where their ultra Right wing views would be better appreciated,
Looking at those leaving the cabinet, some wanted to retire from cabinet, others were unfortunately tainted by circumstance or mistakes, and some like Flint had the whiff of dead man walking. I've got no objections to this flushing exercise.
/ˈhɪpəkrɪt/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [hip-uh-krit] Show IPA
–noun
1. a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, esp. a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.
2. a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, esp. one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.