There was me thinking Corbyn was just highlighting how the culture in the workplace favours men. Still for some, women should be in the kitchen or bedroom anyway!
Did he actually propose banning after work hours meetings?

Does it now?

Primary school? Hell you worked in one, they are ran by females and not always to their betterment. Secondary school even?

There are plenty of professions where women rule and in my career I've personally witnessed women being advantaged all the time.

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'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

I think Stirling has adequately answered this Gusset.

And I posed the question "How did he plan to overcome this 'discrimination'?" and was pointing out the ridiculous - that he could ban after work drinking to stop it.

The guy's a fool.

Without doubt in the 40+ years I worked the two worst bosses I ever had were women.

The first hadn't a clue how to do the work in our Dept for starters and kept calling pointless meetings to improve workflow at locations away from the workplace (to prevent interruption she said) but created unnecessary cost and disruption organising cover for signing off work and resentment from key staff who thought we were on a jolly! One of my team leaders infuriated her by suggesting that our Dept had a fire raging and that instead of putting it out with buckets of water for now we were sat around discussing the plans for building a fire engine... LOL

The second wasn't very bright either and resented my problem solving skills and pragmatic approach to handling complaints. She preferred long winded, labour intensive solutions that cost more money than she was trying to save by going through formalities and was very petty. she would invite the girls round to her house for drinks/nibbles but I didn't feel discriminated against - just relieved not to have to endure her company any longer than I had to.

I'm all for equality in workplace representation. Would be great to see more women working as builders, plumbers, sewage workers, front line soldiers etc

Or should we just ask for equality when it suits women. F*cking joke.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

Do you mean it has been twisted by the media to look like this?

Even if it has been twisted he needs to learn how to be a politician. Politicians know that their words are going to be twisted. He should know that better than most by now.

Why risk it? It's a stupid topic to get involved in. Politically it is incredibly naive at best.

"It's almost like a moral decision. Except not really cos noone is going to find out," Jez, Peep Show

I agree hence why I said "at best". On every level it just seems an unnecessary intervention that will damage him.

I haven't watched the video. To be honest I'm not that interested, but I presume (possibly being generous) that it really wasn't as stupid as it is portrayed.

But the problem is he has left himself exposed to being portrayed as a killjoy, out of touch, or an idiot again. Politicians have to be more media-savvy and he just appears completely unable to do so.

Worth noting that according to Yougov polling today 51% of the public (and something like 60%+ of Labour voters) think the media is biased against him, but even if they are right, he needs to be more clever about the way he deals with the press.

"It's almost like a moral decision. Except not really cos noone is going to find out," Jez, Peep Show

How can you not see that he's a moron? It's genuinely baffling.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

Anyone who has a go at the national rail networks and comes out looking a tit, is a special kind of stupid.

have a go at fairs, have a go at waiting times and train cancellations.

Don't moan about full up trains when it's near bastad empty you utter pen1s

"It's not the bullet that's got my name on it that concerns me; it's all them other ones flyin' around marked 'To Whom It May Concern.'"