Maid Mary Ann’s Misjudged Moan
The Independent’s Mary Ann Sieghart has joined in the ongoing debate about women hacks in Westminster. Guido was on about this last week, with the Guardian and Telegraph following up on the issue. Sieghart claims:
“It took years of campaigning for childcare to be seen as a mainstream political issue rather than a private matter for parents. That was because politicians didn’t think it was important and nor did political editors. They were, on the whole, workaholic men with wives at home.”
Which hasn’t gone down very well with those same male political editors:
As I was stuffing porridge into my 5-year-old this morning I learnt from @MASieghart that male political editors don't "get" childcare.—
Guido Fawkes (@GuidoFawkes) January 17, 2013
@jameschappers @GuidoFawkes @MASieghart i'd like to have read it, but too busy changing two pairs of nappies 1st thing this am (as daily).—
Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) January 17, 2013
Guido was particularly amused by the suggestion that Mary Ann wasn’t very happy with Andrew Neil and the BBC:
“I had the uncomfortable feeling all the way through that I was being forced to play second fiddle, but it wasn’t till I watched the programme back on iPlayer that I realised why. The presenter, Andrew Neil, had gone to Danny first with every single question and had often given him, but not me, the chance of a follow-up.”
If her choice of outfits for Brillo’s show was anything to go by , she can’t have been that cheesed off…
“It took years of campaigning”
“…politicians didn’t think it was important”
Note the past tense
We’ll become even more aware of immigrant childcare when 10 million Bulgarians and Romanians arrive here!
You must be fucking joking
Get back in your box
No joke. when you can see up to 20 times the benefits offered in the UK compared to your own countries you would be foolish not to come here.
I’ve seen these ‘new men’ with their ‘female side’ on display. They’re generally hen-pecked and down-trodden. I genuinely feel sorry for them.
….also note the past tense elsewhere ‘, They were, on the whole, .. men with wives at home’ It’s quite simple to understand really – what is it that so called ‘editors’ don’t understand about the English language. Surely journalists should be experts in the tool of their trade, not half arsed amateurs ?
I think the word you are looking for is “bint”
These male journos are providing the anecdotes which support what MAS is saying..too much porridge on your brain Guido.
She’s worn that outfit a few times on Brillo. Must think she looks good in it.
Delusional old boiler
She should STFU and make us all a sammich. Beyond that, what is she for?
Somewhere to park your bike if she bends over?
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The staff.
My dad told me all women are mad and the older they get the madder they get…….methinks he was right
Your dad is a wise man.
W.W.
“As I was stuffing porridge into my 5-year-old this morning ”
Nothing better on a cold morning , Hows about that then guy’s OR girl’s
*parp*
One more to make sure:
*parp*
You know. I do believe that I would…
FFS i just got my Tesco burgers out of the fridge
Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd they’re Off
Actually. Call me old fashioned or as I prefer an INIVIDUAL. I believe childcare should have nothing to do with politics or the state except for reasons of safety.
You have children, you look after them, END OF.
The state providing nurseries so that mothers can work in the factories for the common purpose harks back to communism. So much in fact we were told as kids in the classroom that communism was so evil that children hardly saw their parents and were looked after by the state while their parents worked every hour possible.
Nah, not old-fashioned just sensible. The fact that children have become a state commodity and political weapon is odious.
Why is childcare the resonsibility of anyone other than the parents? Can’t look after children? Don’t have them.
Tesco Economy burgers
for those people saddled with debt
Don’t look a horse in the mouth!
Remember that piece from the screen shots only because the maids outfit looked so out of place. If feminist left could out itself as being what it really is this could make for a good day.
The assumption that men do not get involved with child care is an odious myth.
Does Trans Fat come from the hips of Brazilian ladyboys?
No. Twats fat comes from mine.
I would
Three more arrests by Met corruption inquiry. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21058379 …
Is this purely about payments connected with phone hacking, or perhaps could there information of a slightly different nature out there which needs to be covered up ?
We’ve all got satellite TV though…
Yes and designer clothes, tobacco, drugs, alcohol, mobile phones, tablets, strange hats, cars and sports wear. There is no poverty only relative poverty.
We’ve not gone on holiday in the years when money’s been tight.
It’s common sense- it doesn’t mean we’re living in poverty.
Ah, the dichotomy of the political female. They want to be equal but only in some ways. They still want special privileges and rights when it comes to children and they don’t like the idea of patrolling with heavy kit and firefights much. And then those differences that they are happy to live with, the girly gossip, shoes and bags obsessions, male strippers (not objectified they) and discriminatory programmes like Loose Women and Woman’s Hour.
“Workaholic men with wives at home.”
Fiona Mactaggart’s quote in the Seighart Indy article suggests. “[Men]They can learn it [kids and home / childcare] but it’s always a bit like a second language to them. Women know it because it’s our lives.” . Note – lives!
In that respect wouldn’t they be better if they have these thoughts they should stay at home until their children are older. If impossible to juggle a career with motherhood why leave the comfort of the kitchen only to complain.
If a jobs worth doing it’s worth doing well. Jounalism and politics has enough 5th wheels on the bandwagon.
Sieghart expects to be taken seriously when she dresses like that?
Love to know if she employs a nanny/cleaner.
Is that a ‘French Maid’s’ outfit I spy ? – Why no whip?….Oh! dear I forgot French Maids charge extra for whipping.
After a bad sales week Tesco have tried to turn back the clock by recruiting an old celebrity chef. Not sure the Galloping Gourmet was the right choice
I had a Becher’s Brook at McDonalds this morning.
Delicious!
Comment from ‘The Chair ‘, SC?
Sorry Guv, but I can’t be doing with that American rubbish. Their coffee makes me a bit hoarse.
And give me a drag on that Rothmans. George has ran out.
Even in that outfit, after a ‘good’ night you might wake up in the morning and think ‘God, what have I done!’
She’s so fucking desperate, you’d probably wake up with her gums round your plums.
And yet, I would…
Childcare a mainstream political issue ???
It isn’t.
But the quangocrats and interfering busybodies would like it to be. Let me change that …… HAVE turned it into a political issue, so childcare really is a political mess in parts of this country.
+100
Many a good tune played on an old fiddle but Brillo obviously felt Seighart was no Stradivarius..
You tell her big G- after all as a Catholic you completely understand the rhythm section of the community.
Perhaps she was playing second fiddle because she was second fiddle.She might like to consider why.
Economy burger, economy burger, clear over the freezer into the basket, going good to firm towards the self service, deciding not to stop for fags, now this is a big hurdle… nicely done, economy burger…
Green testicle, green testicle, clear over the freezer into the basket, going good to firm towards the self service, oh, what happened ? Looks like Green testicle was abandoned in the frozen broccoli section. Have confirmed, there will be a stewards inquiry… this is such a shame for green testicle…
I just love a French tickler
John McCririck weighing options with new Tesco sponsorship following C4 hurdles:
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/john-mccririck-is-suing-channel-4–but-its-not-age-that-holds-him-back-its-aging-attitudes-8446593.html
- Every little helps.
Oi! Mary! Shut it! Put the feathers down and make me a cuppa tea!
Tottywatch?
Been on the black stuff again Fawkes?
“It took years of campaigning for childcare to be seen as a mainstream political issue rather than a private matter for parents. That was because politicians didn’t think it was important and nor did political editors. They were, on the whole, workaholic men with wives at home.”
No. It was because the British parliament had bigger issues to deal with, whereas now all those big decisions are taken by our real parliament in the EUSSR, and british MPs can concentrate on rice crispies, gay partnerships, and childminding.
We have created a society where people expect everything to be provided by government. Even those on high salaries seem to want to bleed society dry.
This so called austerity that the country is going through is a load of bollocks. In reality it’s I can’t afford my 3000 pound holiday, I can only afford a 2000 holiday.
Look at Balls and Cooper as a good example of greed, and me me me society.
I think you are all being a bit unfair about MAS’s maid’s outfit. I think she looks OK in it. Basically, I wouldn’t say no if she said yes. I’ve seen worse looking ladies. Give her a break, I mean it’s not as if she’s a ‘ten pint-er’ is she?
To beef or not to beef that is the equestrian ?
Tesco burgers enjoyed unbridled success in their hay day but now there’s going to be a stewards enquiry
I want to fuck her. I don’t care what she ‘thinks’.
…. poor old Mary Ann : trying with some desperation to secure her tenuous position with that down market newspaper where she now perches …