One reason why, at the tender age of fifteen, I first joined the Conservative Party (coughing up a then-valuable £1), was that it seemed to espouse the notion of meritocracy when compared with the Labour Party. Thus I have enormous difficulty with the proposition that a one-thirds quota of woman be established for the next Tory Cabinet.
Posted on The Huntsman.
Monday 3 March 2008
Tories: Burn Your Bras!