Wooing women the Tory way

Cogito Ergosum

It has been put to me by female relatives that people distrust scientists. That attitude seems to be reflected in those polling figures for nuclear and speed limits.

I am a scientist and don't like being distrusted. What would coffee housers advise?

Chris W

The charts just show how wrong women are. Kittens and embroidery eh?

Archibald

What's this, will we have government policy dictated by a mix of 'Oprah' and 'Loose Women'? What nonsense.
I'd prefer policy to be decided on what's in the best interests of the country rather than any minor differences between the sexes.
I bet if this was a YouGov question (would you prefer policy to be decided on what's in the best interests of the country...), there would be pretty much unanimous agreement from both sides.
The only interesting thing about the above 2 polls is that equal across the sexes are those who are either stupid enough or smart enough to say 'don't know'. Change the question to "have you read all the information and studies regarding different power sources and so are able to make a rational judgement on what it best" and the responses would be almost unanimously 'no'. This fact tends to stop pollsters asking such questions, as it underlines the basic point that the vast majority of us don't know a damn thing about most stuff like this and don't have the inclination to find out unless it's our one area of special and biased interest, so the best bet would be to stop asking the opinion of some granny in Barnsley who can't even decide what to have for her tea, and get on and do the job you've been elected for.

alexsandr

spose we are in for loads of child-centric measures that we all have to pay for.
ho hum

Tiberius

Those charts rather reinforce the fluffy bunny theory. And Christopher Booker patently needs to change his style if he is to get women to read his column.

London Calling

The Men from Mars…

And we promise not to start anymore wars…destroy our planet…castrate our economies or worship the power of Banking…and we will have chocolates delivered to you daily…

The Women from Venus…

We want affordable childcare…equal pay and opportunities…forget the flowers….:)

Andy Carpark

68% think wind and solar. I ask you.

98% probably think that stars are holes in the sky that the angels peep through.

startledcod

The charts tell you all you need to know about the why women are ambivalent about Chris Huhne, he's for wind farms and for a higher speed limit.

Rhoda Klapp

Reminds me of this:

youtube.com/watch?v=LS37SNYjg8w

disenfranchised

if 68% of women think wind and solar are the best energy solution, the government are tilting at windmills.....

Vulture

Two observations:

a) Why is a man writing this ? (Doh!)

2) Dave will have to do a little better than this to win Verity over.

2trueblue

Hmm, definitely not agreeing on the energy part. Are they the only relevant questions? Must have been decided by a man that these were good questions to show.... what exactly?

Women do not need a leg up, we manage fine. We make our choices and get on with it. Equal pay should be resolved.

FvH

Anybody else notice the row of strategically placed "wimmin" behind the H2B today at PMQ's ??? Lots more photo ops to come with the likes of Louis Mensch et al !!

Verity

Vulture - Damn straight. Elected police chiefs and the legalisation of gun ownership (with a license), and legalising shooting dead any intruder who wasn't invited in. (That would include squatters, btw.)

In addition, prisons outsourced to poor countries (a humanitarian action to help their economies) like Somalia, Myanmar and Rhodesia and hard cases sent to abandoned N Sea oil rigs with food and water drops weekly from helicopters that don't land. No need to employ guards.

Speaking as a woman, that's for starters.

Master Cobbett

I'm awfully glad I married a Norwegian girl, her english contemporaries, and the next generation, have always struck me as being in a permanent state of entitlement and are simply, like the american females that the english strive to emulate, spoilt rotten. The idea of grovelling to the modern female Brit is hideously undignified---and very possibly ruinously expensive. And another thing:women in positions of authority in employment--it seldom works, as they can't bear the extra burdens and generally panic and make life unbearable for others. I don't expect many to agree with this, but sometimes one feels like revolting against what we used to refer to in the West Midlands as, and I apologise for the indelicacy of the expression, the 'clitocracy'.

Verity

Plus dismantle every "wind farm" (what a stupid name) in the country.

Plus annex, by force, the Libyan, Saudi, Emirates and Algerian oilfields in a permanent sense. Keep the oil pumping, but keep the revenues.

Islamics committing bigamy to be deported and their benefits terminated permanently. First cousin marriages to be made illegal.

And free name tags for kitties and puppies.

Fergus Pickering

No need to win Verity over. She hasn't got a vote. I don't think the next election wil be won on speed limits and windmills.

N.B. Most real arseshole drivers are men.

anne allan

Ye Gods, I'm a girlie, but if this is how women voters think then let's return to pre-1918.

Nicholas

During PM's questions Dave made one his usual pompous and meaningless exhortations when he called for "More women in the boardroom". What a fatuous prick. I thought we might see the last of this political correctness driven meddling and social/sexual engineering with the back of New Labour. But not a bit of it. Dave and his gang are shaping up to be every bit as lecturing and finger wagging as the last lot.

So, excuse my French, but here is a message for our power mad elite who seem to think they need to lecture us on how to live our lives.

LEAVE US THE FUCK ALONE!

alexsandr

women that are qualified are already running businesses and in the board room

Do you think deborah meaden needs equality legislation to get by?

Dave B

This is an odd question to ask.

If the Conservatives want to know the electoral consequences of their energy policy, the question they should be asking is:

"Do you want cheap electricity, generated any-old-how, or more expensive electricity generated from renewable resources."

That question will be answered at the next election. I don't think the Parliamentary Conservative Party will like the answer.

Austin Barry

"to find whoever they could in Number 10 without testicles"

Just about everyone then.

Andy Carpark

'he called for "More women in the boardroom". '

...In a decennial echo of Joan Ruddock, who, following the overthrow of the Taleban, stood up at PMQs and asked Blair to personally guarantee that the new Afghan parliament would comprise 50% or more women members.

Blair agreed that this would be a jolly good thing.

Verity

Nicholas 9:56 - Endorse.

Verity

Fegus Pickering, I don't know who you are confusing me with, but I did not write one word about speed limits and I didn't mention windmills at all, so don't know the points you were responding to.

You are correct that I no longer have a vote in Britain. I am absolutely certain that you do not have a vote in the United States, but that doesn't stop from writing your ill-informed opinions about that country. (At least I am British and know what I'm talking about, although now deprived of a vote. You are not American and I doubt that you have even visited the country. So a very weird comparison.) However, I note that it was written at 1:23 a.m., so you may have been a little tired and nervous.

I S

Like Nicholas, I, too, was stunned by Cameron earnestly agreeing that there should be 'more places for women in the boardroom.' I expect no better from the likes of Harman or Toynbee, but not from a, supposedly, Tory PM. Where does this nonsense end? What about minorities, disabled, lesbians, travellers etc?
Apparently, in Norway, there are a small number of women who have done very well out of such legislation. I believe they are called 'golden skirts.'