(if you discount the Green Party, because they have it written into their rules that they have to be led by a man and a woman)
That is a good rule to have!
I'll vote. >.<. If only because someone should be encouraged towards having a female PM. I wondered (out loud, that was my mistake) why there were no women running for PM this election over here? My friends - who are all guys - just looked and me and said, "Because none of the party leaders are women." *facepalm* So not the point, guys. (And yet, I guess it kind of was, but not in the way they meant it.) And one of the smart-mouths decided to add that the candidates hadn't been announced yet, so how did I know there weren't going to be any independent female runners?
I'm pretty sure there weren't any.
I've heard that people don't want another femal PM because Thatcher was the last one. Yeah, well, Thatcher was also the last (at least, significant) Conservative PM, and guess what we have right now? -__-'
I kind of really wish our major newspapers did stuff like this. But then, our major newspapers are owned by Rupert Murdoch, and you do not want to know what The Sun ran the day before the election...
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Date: 2010-06-23 07:47 pm (UTC)That is a good rule to have!
I'll vote. >.<. If only because someone should be encouraged towards having a female PM. I wondered (out loud, that was my mistake) why there were no women running for PM this election over here? My friends - who are all guys - just looked and me and said, "Because none of the party leaders are women." *facepalm* So not the point, guys. (And yet, I guess it kind of was, but not in the way they meant it.) And one of the smart-mouths decided to add that the candidates hadn't been announced yet, so how did I know there weren't going to be any independent female runners?
I'm pretty sure there weren't any.
I've heard that people don't want another femal PM because Thatcher was the last one. Yeah, well, Thatcher was also the last (at least, significant) Conservative PM, and guess what we have right now? -__-'
I kind of really wish our major newspapers did stuff like this. But then, our major newspapers are owned by Rupert Murdoch, and you do not want to know what The Sun ran the day before the election...
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