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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2022 9:29:00 GMT
What if Barbara Castle, and not Margaret Thatcher, was Britain's first female PM?
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Post by The Bishop on Mar 26, 2022 15:43:55 GMT
Of course, she didn't even stand in the real 1976 Labour leadership election. And had by then made clear privately she would retire at the coming election.
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Post by johnloony on Mar 27, 2022 17:23:48 GMT
Castle would have got into an even bigger mess with the trade unions and strikes than Callaghan did, and Mrs Thatcher would have become PM in 1979 with a bigger majority.
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Post by islington on Mar 27, 2022 19:04:36 GMT
We'd somehow have to cope without the relief of one of the most entertaining features of current UK politics, namely listening to explanations from our Labour friends of how it is that the reactionary Tories have had two women leaders, both PM, whereas the modern, go-ahead, egalitarian, equal-women's-rights Labour Party has somehow managed not to have any.
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Post by islington on Mar 27, 2022 19:06:17 GMT
Caretakers don't count.
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Post by greatkingrat on Mar 27, 2022 19:51:00 GMT
David is quite right, the Labour Party have a proud tradition of letting a woman mind the shop for a couple of months while the rest of the party get on with deciding which man should replace them.
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Post by finsobruce on Mar 27, 2022 20:43:42 GMT
Aren't they called site managers these days? |
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Post by greenhert on Mar 27, 2022 21:40:54 GMT
Aren't they called site managers these days? They have been for years. |
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Post by finsobruce on Mar 27, 2022 21:46:12 GMT
Aren't they called site managers these days? They have been for years. I apologise in advance for this, but - whoosh. |
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Post by greenhert on Mar 27, 2022 21:49:12 GMT
Back to the main topic-despite the offices Barbara Castle achieved, there was no realistic possibility of her becoming Labour PM in 1976, even if she had stood.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2022 5:44:45 GMT
Back to the main topic-despite the offices Barbara Castle achieved, there was no realistic possibility of her becoming Labour PM in 1976, even if she had stood. So when did Labour get the closest to having a female PM? Could Shirley Williams have made it in 1976 if she ran? |
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Post by willpower3 on Mar 30, 2022 8:11:15 GMT
Back to the main topic-despite the offices Barbara Castle achieved, there was no realistic possibility of her becoming Labour PM in 1976, even if she had stood. So when did Labour get the closest to having a female PM? Could Shirley Williams have made it in 1976 if she ran? Harriet Harman when Brown was in trouble in 2009ish. |
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Post by The Bishop on Mar 30, 2022 10:54:44 GMT
Back to the main topic-despite the offices Barbara Castle achieved, there was no realistic possibility of her becoming Labour PM in 1976, even if she had stood. So when did Labour get the closest to having a female PM? Could Shirley Williams have made it in 1976 if she ran? Williams was notably less popular amongst her parliamentary colleagues than she was with the wider electorate. |
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