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| Give Laura Pidcock credit for her anti-Tory stance | Give Laura Pidcock credit for her anti-Tory stance |
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| Anne Perkins seems disappointed that Laura Pidcock won’t “hang out with Tory women” or consider them as godparent material for her children (Denouncing Tories feels good, but Pidcock has to work with them, theguardian.com, 24 August). She also worries that viewing Tories as “the enemy” will hamper Pidcock’s work as an MP. | Anne Perkins seems disappointed that Laura Pidcock won’t “hang out with Tory women” or consider them as godparent material for her children (Denouncing Tories feels good, but Pidcock has to work with them, theguardian.com, 24 August). She also worries that viewing Tories as “the enemy” will hamper Pidcock’s work as an MP. |
| Ironically, I read Perkins’ article just after hearing, in a radio interview, another female Labour MP who had been elected very young describe the Tories as the enemy. She went on to relate that she once even hid her six-week-old baby from Margaret Thatcher’s “horrific” gaze when she encountered her in a corridor. Does Perkins think the young Harriet Harman should have appointed Thatcher as godparent to the child instead? | Ironically, I read Perkins’ article just after hearing, in a radio interview, another female Labour MP who had been elected very young describe the Tories as the enemy. She went on to relate that she once even hid her six-week-old baby from Margaret Thatcher’s “horrific” gaze when she encountered her in a corridor. Does Perkins think the young Harriet Harman should have appointed Thatcher as godparent to the child instead? |
| Harman was well aware that sisterly solidarity with Tory women was futile given their full-frontal assault on women’s interests. She went on to achieve major political change, including the landmark Equality Act. Let’s give Pidcock some credit for similarly recognising that treating every Tory MP as a “potential friend” is an abhorrent idea when they are the instigators of the austerity measures she joined parliament to fight. Jane MiddletonBath | Harman was well aware that sisterly solidarity with Tory women was futile given their full-frontal assault on women’s interests. She went on to achieve major political change, including the landmark Equality Act. Let’s give Pidcock some credit for similarly recognising that treating every Tory MP as a “potential friend” is an abhorrent idea when they are the instigators of the austerity measures she joined parliament to fight. Jane MiddletonBath |
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