Shadow Secretary of State for Transport Theresa Villiers has been slammed by Tory activists as “the slowest of all tortoises” in an article on ConservativeHome detailing the performance of the Shadow Cabinet.
Rating the Tory team as tortoises or hares, the richest criticisms of Villiers came inevitably from the comments section.
“Theresa Villiers is widely seen to be out of her depth. She isn’t cabinet material, more suited to a PPS role in my opinion”
“What has happened to Transport policy! Do we have… anything to say on the matter?”
It’s typical of the Tories to pick on the woman. Just today, Tory attack poodle Chris Grayling was on TV bemoaning the shortage of male role models in society. What’s he going to do - start promoting all-male shortlists for parliamentary selections? Wasn’t that the system that brought us Derek Conway?
…and didn’t the tortoise win in the end?
editor[at]recessmonkey.com
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interesting that you chose to quote the comments section.
By that reckoning, looking at comments on your articles, you are a “tw*t” and worse!
You must admit Villiers isn’t that amazing. You rarely seem to see her in the house, but then I suppose that’s maybe because we don’t have any transport debates any more- both her and kelly have only spoken 10-20 times in debates over the last twelve months.
Tories do have good women- May, Milton, Miller, Spellman etc. but Villiers isn’t that great.
Adrian Bath said this on February 11th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
“It’s typical of the Tories to pick on the woman.”
Haven’t you shut thiss blog down yet?
Samuel Coates said this on February 11th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Villiers deserves the criticism, transport is a major live issue and she has nothing to say.
Recess you can only be defending her because either you want poor performers in the Shadow Cabinet, since that is the only way to make the real Cabinet look anything better than the third rate, dishonest, shower of shit that they are. Or you fancy her, and whilst she does have great legs I’m inclined towards believing that the first reason is the right one.
Mr Angry said this on February 12th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Funnily enough, one of my first ever student journalism articles was a write up of an interview with Chris Grayling in which I refer to him as a ‘frightened frog.’
Red Rooster said this on February 13th, 2008 at 12:08 am
Come on monkey!!!!
It’s not like you to go for censorship and discretion yet you have blocked the tantalising Mark Clarke story AND removed a comment.
You can’t just open a can of worms in such a way and then try and cover it up.
Or maybe if you didn;t talk in riddles you wouldn;t leave yourself open to such suggestions true or otherwise
Fishcake said this on February 16th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Saw the heading - thought it must be an attack on Theresa May’s appearance. So it turns out to be Theresa Villiers lack of speed. Hadn’t heard of her before. Learn something new every day eh?
Bumble said this on February 19th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
as far as all male shortlists are concerned a recent report recomended allowing racial discrimination in selecting a shortlist so why not sexual discrimination too?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/feb/10/harrietharman.labour
giles bradshaw said this on February 20th, 2008 at 12:55 am
Theresa has done nothing for chipping barnet, i hope she drops dead and her family dies a horrible and painful death.
Dan Hartman said this on March 7th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
^
ouch
Lexie said this on March 8th, 2008 at 12:59 pm