Keir Starmer's International Women's Day hypocrisy

Keir Starmer's hypocritical comments on International Women's Day really take the biscuit.

"We need a female leader" honks Keir Starmer on International Women’s Day, before going on to describe it as a "challenge" for the Labour Party to elect a female leader "before too long".

This is coming from the guy who cheated two women out of the chance of leading the Labour Party in 2020 with an absolute pack of lies cobbled together to dupe Labour Party members into voting for him instead.

Before he even got around to gleefully ripping up all of his leadership election pledges, Starmer’s first priority was to rig the Labour leadership nomination process to exclude socialists, women, and people of colour from participation in future contests.

If Starmer’s new nomination rules had been in place before the 2020 leadership election he cheated his way to victory in, both of his female opponents would have been blocked from participation!

In fact all but two of the women who have ever stood in Labour leadership elections would have been blocked from participation if Starmer’s rigged nomination rules had been in place at the time!

It takes some incredible amount of brass neck to talk about how much of a "challenge" it is for Labour to one day elect a female leader, when he’s the one who rigged the rules to make it vastly more challenging for women to even get onto the shortlist.

It’s an absolute embarrassment for Labour that they’re the only significant political party in Britain never to have had a female leader.

That’s not to say all female leaders are good leaders just by virtue of being female, just think of Theresa May and Jo Swinson as relatively recent examples of how female leaders can be every bit as terrible and inept as their male counterparts.

But it’s absolutely galling to see such hypocritical guff about the importance of female leadership from a man who cynically cheated two women out of the chance of leading the Labour Party, and then immediately made it vastly more difficult for potential female Labour leaders of the future to even participate in future Labour leadership elections.