Letter: Is Harriet right?
Tuesday 11th August 2009, 8:29AM BST.
Letter: Harriet Harman is at it again with “there should be a woman in every two top jobs and women should be paid more to come in line with men.
Does it ever occur to her that women sometimes take lower paid jobs so they can work part-time and be with their children? Not every woman can afford to pay child care so they can be a high powered MP.
Then we have the comment: “Men don’t like me because I won’t take no for an answer”.
She never stops yapping on about power over men and is about as pleasant as a bluebottle buzzing.
Some youthful disappointment must have really gripped her to “hate” men so much. Women make their own choices and do so intelligently.
Val Duncan
Wellington
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Here, here Val!
If you prompote any minority or under represented group for that reason and not their ability, then you will have positions filled with incompetents, which will merely further the myth that these groups of people aren’t suitable for top jobs – just as this MP is proving.
What a muppet that Harman woman is. It’s a wonder she doesn’t change her name to Harwoman.
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And what if a male minister said that: “women don’t like me because I won’t take no for an answer.” Would that be a good role model for boys everywhere?
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Another great letter from Val Duncan. – More power to your pen, Val.
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..and this is from a regime that has about 75% of the staff at the equalities commission being women..
People should be paid the going rate regardless of whether they are male or female.
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We are now all reaping the ”rewards” of the Thatcher years.
The worst thing this country ever did was give Women the Vote.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markeaston/2009/08/statistical_gender_bending.html
Have a look at Mark Easton’s blog on the BBC to see how her department are ‘fiddling’ the statistics
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Whoa English Exile – why don’t we go back to the days where husbands could behead their wives on a whim as well?
Are you trying to imply all women are stupid and are therefore not entitled to any say in how their country is run? – Lets face it – all Gordon Brown has done is run it into the ground so hardly a good example of what happens if you leave a man in control.
We’re not all like Harman you know
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I would have thought that her comments were tant amount to sexual discrimination.
I had nothing to do with the banking collapse, nothing to do with the incompetents running our country into ruin over the past ten years and resent being labelled alongside these fools purely because I am a man…
i think she needs to go to a “sexual orientation course” to teach her to be less sexist…
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If the comments that Harriet Haridan makes were said by an intelligent, competent and socially aware woman and were based on a genuine and recognised grievance, I would say more power to her elbow. Unfortunately, this person say’s one thing for public consumption and invariably say’s and does differently when it comes to her own particular position.
She comes from a very grand and affluent family and went to public school, in order to make herself credible with the Labour “hoi polloi”, she criticises and derides those in the Tory party who went to private schools. She also castigates grammar and private schools yet she send her own to a grammar school way outside her constituency where good (but not good enough for her) schools exist.
She, to me, is one of the most loathesome and hypocritical Labour MPs who will stamp on everyone and stop at nothing in order to become Prime Minister. God help us if that day ever arrives.
Now, if she was a second Maggie Thatcher, English Exile I would give her my support in a flash. Man or woman, progress in employment or equality etc should be based on merit alone, gender should have no part in it.
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(Taken from the Telegraph’s list of top 100 leftwingers)
Harriet Harman
Often referred to as “Harriet Harperson” due to her extreme politically correct views, Harman often takes her far-left views to absurd, and sinister, lengths. She is virulently anti-family and has questioned whether “the presence of fathers in families is necessarily a means to social harmony and cohesion.” Her advocacy of the racist practice of “Positive Discrimination” is well documented and Harman has sought to extend this biased employment strategy even further.
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Her comments are wrong and unhelpful. It seems these days it’s ok to put men down, TV ads show men to be weak, stupid and easily lead. Fathers rights seem to mean nothing. I don’t want my kids to grow up with these views and she’s not helping matters.
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I blame Gordon Brown.
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I blame Gordon’s Gin!
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