Written By: - Date published: 4:52 pm, May 20th, 2008 - 52 comments
Categories: election 2008, national -
Tags: burqa bob, colin espiner, labour, national, women
Colin Espiner pointed it out the other week, National “needs more women. Never over-represented in National at the best of times, the party is looking increasingly estrogen-lite.”
So there would have been a sigh of relief in National circles that they can now distance themselves from comments such as these from declared departee Bob Clarkson:
“I don’t want to be mean… but what makes me struggle is why does Labour favour the hairy-legged ladies?… I cross-examine some of these ladies in the select committee, and guys for that matter, and they’ve got warped bloody minds…”
Part of the polling success for National has been their appeal to women who have traditionally been more likely to be Labour supporters. But there is an issue for National in ensuring they have some good women standing as candidates in winnable electorates, or high on their party list. We need to see the promise delivered on.
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Yes sod absolutely perhaps he can do it at the same time as Phil rolls Helen
All part of the service HS. No charge.
HS – he did it in 2005.
HS,
It’s not a secret. It is out there in the open.
Just because you were not exposed to it doesn’t mean nobody knows.
Hell, it only took one search attempt.
And just because men are sexist (no not all men, this is not an anti men rant)at work doesn’t mean they are at home.
See, no conspiracy just a bit of investigative journalism.
Something our press has forgotten how to do.
You should try it sometime.
dad4justice
-I wonder if National will start a Ministry of Mens Affairs?
We need more male role models not more women who should be at home looking after their young children.-
Did you really just say that? Guess your wife and you are no longer together judging by your name.
HP This is an excellent example of a rich prick angry sexist white guy voter, I guess.
While it would be wonderful if both fathers and mothers could spend more quality time together with their kids wages are now such that both mothers and fathers have to work and don’t have much choice in the matter. I’m sure a lot of women doing menial jobs to feed and cloth their offspring would love to chuck it in.
See no conspiracy, just out in the open.
By the way can anybody tell me how to change that avatar thingy
Captcha: Street broidery. ?
Eve – for the avatar thingy see here:
http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?page_id=1799
Thanks r0b
Wow, that was really easy, Thanks again r0b, oh oops not so easy. lol
try again
[lprent: it is showing an gravator on my screen. Sometimes takes a little while to get around your local caching]
Thanks again r0b
All thanks are due to our sysadmin Lynn / lprent (who added to your comment just above). Lynn puts heaps of time into improving the technology behind the site, providing more tools, and a faster more reliable blog for all of us. Thanks Lynn!
‘Sod, billy, you’re going to let Farrar’s less MPs slide? Cripes.
DPF – good on your for not apostrophosising (sic) “MPs” though, full credit there.
yep, I was to impatient. I went back and it said wait 5 to 10 minutes.
Thanks Lynn
Ari,
Not being sexist involves acknowledging that the genders have some differences as well as acknowledging that our equal rights and common humanity bring us together as a society.
Being chosen to run for National — or Labour for that matter — is not a right, regardless of whether you’re a woman, man or half-and-half. And if National is so “anti-woman”, why are women steadily drifting over to them in the polls?
Travellerev,
I put it to you that John key took part in a sleazy bussines and with the links provided I think we can safely assume that he is a sleaze himself, and since he is the leader of National and capable women politicians are leaving I can only assume that this sleaze is permeating throughout the party as a whole.
As far as I can tell, one woman has left (Katherine Rich), and as I said above, women voters are coming to the Nats in pretty large numbers.
And I think it’s a long bow to draw to call John Key a sleaze because of where he worked. And it’s borderline outrageous to say the National party is full of sleazy people. It’s guilt by association, with tenuous proof that the original person is actually guilty of anything.
“It’s guilt by association”
You forgot that guilt by association is OK when you’re on the same team as Nicky Hagar
I said: I can only assume that this sleaze is permeating throughout the party as a whole. That is not the same as saying that National is full of sleazy people. In fact I think that most National voters and politicians are your everyday salt of the earth hardworking people, who want a change of government after having seen the same faces for 9 years.(hope that is correct, it seems NZ is the only country in the western world that elects every three years)which is why it is so sad that National with leaders with a proven track record of screwing up the economy and privatization is the only alternative.
I am sure that a lot of women are driven by the need for change as well.
About the quilt by association remark the following: since the boys club seems to have precious few women in its ranks period and from the mistresses from Don Brash to the racist remarks of English’s son(don’t they say like father like son) and John “it’s only banking business” Key’s strip club visits while his employer Merrill Lynch has to fight court battle after court battle for it’s sexist policies I have to say it looks pretty sleazy at the National top. Sleazy, sexist, racist and poorist( i.e. they don’t like poor people). lol.
oh by the way I have read Nicky Hager’s book, and I can understand why National politicians hate his guts. But since they could not refute a word he wrote and it in fact was the end of Don Brash I have to assume he does his home work.
captcha: rarest husband. I do have indeed a rare husband, and I love him to bits
I do have indeed a rare husband, and I love him to bits
You’re fortunate, because Mrs Key and Mrs English and Mrs Brownlee and Mrs Power and Mrs Smith and Mrs Ryall all have husbands who are “Sleazy, sexist, racist and poorist”.
Count your blessings, Travellerev
I do Scribe, I do.
Perhaps the ladies share their husbands prejudices. It is after all not uncommon for females to be racist, sexist, sleazy and poorist as well.
Not to mention elitist and ambitious.
I suppose Mrs Key knew of her husband’s “it’s only business” trips to strip joints. It didn’t seem to bother Key to talk about it so there you go, that’s bit sleazy right there.
I can just here her say: “Ok baby, you go and do your “it’s just business” evening “to the strip club with the next customer that needs softening up before you get him to invest heavily in Sub prime bonds and derivatives and I’ll stay home with the kids telling them fairy tales about how you make your money.”
Oh oops it should be: “hear her say”. My bad