Squeamish Bikini
  • Home
  • Squeamish Features
  • Squeamish Reviews
  • Squeamish News
  • Squeamish Contact
  • About Squeamish

Cameron wants women to calm down and vote for him

2/11/2011

0 Comments

 
Picture
I can't understand a shrill word you're saying dear
Cameron, Cameron, Cameron. In some kind of bid to be both liked by the ladies and seen as just an ordinary bloke, he’s taken to using phrases such as “screwing up” and “goofs”. This makes me wince more than any “calm down dear” gaffe. David Cameron’s voicing of his concerns that he came across as a “sort of 'all right luv, I'm down the pub tonight’ man”, which he totes isn’t guys, was met with ridicule. So he is having another go to show he hearts women, which is why he (and let’s go into list mode here):

1. Told Angela Eagle MP to “Calm down dear”

2. Collapsed in giggles after suggesting Nadine Dorries MP might be frustrated and didn’t bother to answer her question (basically his crime there is making me come to Dorries’ defence) 

3. Voted for the abortion limit to be lowered to 22 weeks. 

4. Is currently backing a deficit plan under which women will suffer from (facts and figures here, or the list gets a little…infinite-ey) 

Recent polls have revealed women are swiftly going off the Prime Minister with only 43% of women approving of Cameron. Another YouGov poll found that 1 in 3 women voters thought Cameron to be the greatest male chauvinist of the 3 party leaders. Knowing it must be something he said not something he did ex PR man Cameron has been explaining his side of the story. Which as PM he never gets to do. 

What with Sam Cam and her refusal to give interviews ( which I applaud), Dave has had to do his own defending,  assuring us that she too uses the people’s prince Michael Winner’s catchphrase “Calm down dear” all the time.

In an interview with Grazia magazine Cameron said; “Samantha does feel quite strongly about it because she often says "calm down dear" to me. We've both seen the commercial. So while I was kicking myself, she didn't really see the issue.”

This, frankly, smacks of the old ‘some of my best friends are gay/black/feminists so I can’t be homophobic/racist/misogynist’ excuse. 

As well as taking full responsibility for the PMQ blunders, Cameron has now taken to being flanked by women at PMQs. It’s a tactic usually seen on Prince and 50 Cent photo shoots but what the hey. It just might work with Margot James, Heather Wheeler, Laura Sandys and Anne McIntosh all taking seats behind Cameron during PMQs on the 19th and 26th of last month. Perhaps this is purely so they are poised to give the PM a clip round the ear the next time he cracks out a sexism.

Squeamish Kate

Related Posts
Cameron not off down the boozer
If Portas ran the world
Weird Politics
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    November 2011
    October 2011
    September 2011
    August 2011

    Categories

    All
    Books
    Booze
    Cinematic
    Dress Up
    Educating Sue
    Educating Sue
    Friday 5
    Friday 5
    Geekery
    Gender Agender
    Gender Agender
    Glitter And Twisted
    Glitter And Twisted
    History Repeating
    History Repeating
    How To
    Just A Thought
    Just A Thought
    Let's Get Political
    Let's Get Political
    Music
    Nom Nom Nom
    Nostalgia
    Tellybox
    Why You Should Love

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
Photos used under Creative Commons from Pink Sherbet Photography, anunez619, NikRugby23!, Asso Pixiel