Dear Prime Minister

[la_marquise]

Dear Prime Minister,

So it's appropriate to tell a female colleague to 'Calm down, dear' in public, is it, and then claim that it was a joke and a cultural reference, and that makes it okay? It's appropriate that your boon companion (and our chancellor of the exchequer) to find it hilarious? It's appropriate for one of your other ministers and fellow travellers to make a speech claiming that it is all the fault of middle class women if working class men haven't gone to university, because those women used space when they could have got married and had children?

I didn't vote for you. I probably would never vote for you and your party, because I oppose what you stand for. But you just ensured that I will never under any circumstances develop any respect for you, either.

yours,

La Marquise.


For those outside the UK:
Cameron's remarks
Angela Eagle responds

Comments

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

This government is amazing. Every time I almost slip into hating the Tories just out of habit, out they trot and give me a fresh reason to hate them properly. They're not as bad as they seem: they're worse!

[branna.livejournal.com]

This is very much the way I feel about the Republicans in the US.

[anef.livejournal.com]

Yup. Too fed up to add anything else, really.

[history-monk.livejournal.com]

Indeed. And it's just stupid. They've put a lot of work into the "Liberal Conservative" act. Just to blow it like this?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

The link to Cameron's remarks is broken, alas. Or not-alas, because the world is maybe better off without them. Tho' less well-informed, obviously. But that's okay, he'll give himself away again. And again, and again. Truth rises.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I think it's now fixed: it wasn't me, as far as I can tell, but something to do with the BBC website.

[leita-love-bug.livejournal.com]

I'll confess, as an American I don't keep up with politics across the pond, but the video in the second link makes me wonder how the hell this guy manages to hide all the oil that is surely oozing from his slimy pores. I love how he tries to play it off at the end, like he uses "dear" as a universal sentiment to be applied to all genders. Shyeah right.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

He's a member of the Conservative Party. They are, as far as I can tell, born like that. It baffles me how anyone could bear to vote for him.

[freda-writes.livejournal.com]

I'm of the opinion that there is no party and no individual capable of running this country any more (if there ever was). The idea of 'middle class women' taking jobs from 'working class men' is too ridiculous to be sane... although, to be honest, I wouldn't at all have minded being a bricklayer or a carpenter. Seriously!

Wonderful to see you at the weekend, Kari! You are an angel!

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I think you're right: too many of them are self-interested, too deeply involved with big business and cut off from real life.
It was lovely to see you, too. You are always one of my Eastercon highlights.

[vaughan-stanger.livejournal.com]

Watching the clip last night on BBC News, I actually felt nauseous. Cameron is a *very* nasty piece of work. Osborne is, if anything, even worse.

[branna.livejournal.com]

What truly upsets me about this is that it seems to be part of a larger and very disturbing political pattern on both sides of the pond.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I know. It's deeply worrying.

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

I just don't get why anyone would want to emulate Michael Winner - even if they did think it was funny.

[dorispossum.livejournal.com]

Cameron reminds me of the kind of public schoolboy misogynists I despised at Cambridge. Not least in relying on the 'can't-you-tell-I-was-being-ironic autoreply whenever called out on their bigotry. His type are repulsive at the age of 18 - to be unchanged at 40+ suggests a serious lack of character.

He's a floater - deeply unpleasant to encounter, but always rises to the top.

[shui-long.livejournal.com]

Well, technically unless you lived in Witney you didn't even have the opportunity to vote for Cameron... which would allow a perfectly correct, but somewhat misleading headline "99.9% of UK electorate didn't vote for Cameron!"

But I do know what you mean... and I can't say I have any noticeable respect for any of the present bunch, of any party, and certainly not for Cameron and cronies.

[saare-snowqueen.livejournal.com]

Wot a slimy, arrogant wanker!!! I wouldn't have voted for him either.

[freda-writes.livejournal.com]

Yes, but you should have seen the alternatives... Gordon Brown all pally and chatty with a female voter in the street, then dismissing her as 'some bigoted woman' as soon as he got back in his car, not realising his microphone was still switched on... talk about the final nail in his campaign coffin!

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

...

I don't even.

(So lovely to see such patronising misogyny in public life. So new and exciting. Presumably Cameron (et ensemble) also thinks that wandering wombs cause a derangement of the female senses, and thus needly reasonable manly men to remind them to cool down their overheating female brains.)

(Not that I have strong feelings on the topic, or anything.)

[valydiarosada.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed Angela Eagle's comeback, that she's been patronised by far better people than David Cameron.

[caffeine-fairy.livejournal.com]

*spits tacks*