With Labour on course to win the next election, it’s worth asking again: why is it the only major political party in the UK never to have had a female leader? There still hasn’t been a satisfactory answer. Indeed, considering the enthusiasm for the Church of Transubstantiation within its ranks – Labour has more of what I coined ‘transmaids’ than all the other parties put together – it’s not altogether impossible that the first ‘woman’ to lead Labour could be the proud possessor of a penis, especially if the risible Izzard ever finds a safe seat willing to take him. Whatever the excuse, Labour look on like scared schoolboys at the end of term disco while every other party have been bossed at some point by females.
Some left-wing men appear to be of the opinion that feminism itself should be a boys’ club
Somehow the traditional right-wing antipathy to uppity women has been passed to the left, as Labour also previously inherited anti-Semitism from the Tories.
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