Girl Guides Sell Jo Swinson Muffins #noagenda

The Girl Guides ( Reg. Charity Number 306016) has decided to step into the election. And Jo Swinson ( UK Charity Number 1112842) showing all her political skill by retweeting their intervention.

According to to Girl Guides…

“ The descriptions of Jo Swinson as ‘bossy’ and being like a ‘head girl’ are sexist. This should not be happening in 2019.

34% of girls are put off politics because of the way the female politicians are portrayed in the media. #GirlsAttitudes #GE2019"

The Big Tent Non-Politics of the Lib Dems

I wonder what badges the dull girls, who lack the adventure to join the Scouts, can get?

Campaiging, that sounds exciting, what is that? Joining a band of ruffians to go on chauvanchee in Kurdistan to secure pipeline access — oh it’ s writing letters on a very narrow range of topics, that someone told them they must be ‘committed’ to. Great.

Concious Consumer, more being told what to do. How about Personal Brand? So that’s a badge for glue sniffers, at least that’s something different. Human Rights, more being told what to think.

Where is it?

They’ve got a badge for voting here somewhere…

Not that it matters because it will be more of the same silliness of telling girls and young women what they must think.

So it comes as no surprise that the Girl Guides should take it upon themselves to try and tell the rest of us what to think. Nor that Jo Swinson, who doesn’t think much, would like the idea that somehow it is all a vast sexist conspiracy that people don’t want to vote for her.

Nor should it come as a surprise that the Girl Guides should choose to illustrate their premenstrual whinging with an article from inews, from four days ago, based on Jo Swinson saying,

“ Jo Swinson has hit out at descriptions of her as “schoolmarmish”, “bossy” and being like a “head girl” as sexist.”

So what the Girl Guides are saying is that Jo Swinson in 2019 shouldn’t be saying these things, and that in 2019 Jo Swinson shouldn’t be happening- a sentiment shared by many within the Liberal Democrats.

And if they are saying this, then I am sure we can all agree that Jo Swinson is likely to put off 34% of girls from going into politics… if not more.

Of course when Girl Guides reach the real world, where they won’t get a badge for eating sweets, they might find there are other more tangible reasons for why they are excluded from entering politics. But don’t let facts get in the way, these bright young things have got letters to write protesting Putin’s plastic homophobia.

But clearly the Girl Guides have little influence on the Labour party. For they have been attacking Jo Swinson on her record in the coalition government. No doubt the Momentum puppets have got their equivalent of the Corbyn Woodcraft Folk politics badge.

A particular gripe of theirs is Jo Swinson’s role in the issue of Tuition Fees.

It is only a matter of time before Jo Swinson retweets the Girl Guides highlighting an article in inews based on a Jo Swinson quote that it is sexist to attack her on the issue of tuition fees. Because as a Scottish MP she shouldn’t be voting on purely English matters.

And for once I agree with her.

It is sexist.

Ever since Blair made a dog’s breakfast of Devolution people have been pointing out the inequity of Scottish MPs voting on English matters, for which they are accountable to no one.

So to blame spiky fingered, hand waving, gappy toothed, bosomy, faux nanny, Jo Swinson for this is just wrong: and sexist. And it is about time the Girl Guides got onto the case.

Certainly the cadres in Northern England will be aware of Scottish Universities recruiting English students at open days to study north of the border, so the Scottish education system can draw yet more money out of England, via student fees, to make up the shortfall in funding caused by SNP mismanagement.

Though it is doubtful, given that the Girl Guides are based in Buckingham Palace Road, that the northern cadres would dare be accused of being right wing by the Londoncentric ruling junta. And will no doubt observe the diktats and stick purely to trivialities, and not real politics.