After being snubbed for a promotion, Caroline Flint, the Europe Minister, delivered the most personal attack yet on the beleaguered Prime Minister, accusing him of using her as "female window dressing" and of operating a "two-tier Government".
In a move designed to maximise the damage to Mr Brown, she announced she was quitting his Government just as he faced the cameras to insist he would not walk away from Downing Street following Labour's worst performance at the polls in 30 years.
Less than 24 hours earlier, she had taken to the airwaves to support his leadership in the wake of the shock resignation of James Purnell, the Work and Pensions Secretary, and his demand that the Prime Minister go for the good of the party.
But her departure was just one of a series of ministerial walk-outs which undermined Mr Brown's hurried attempt to reshape his Government and relaunch his premiership.
Geoff Hoon, John Hutton, Paul Murphy, Margaret Beckett and Tony McNulty have all quit the Government.
They followed Jacqui Smith, Hazel Blears, Mr Purnell and Beverley Hughes out of the exit door.
Mr Brown was forced to retreat from his plan to sack Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, instead keeping him and Foreign Secretary David Miliband in their posts, promoting leadership rival Alan Johnson to the Home Office and effectively making Peter Mandelson deputy Prime Minister.
Miss Flint's resignation came after a stormy meeting at Downing Street.
She issued a savage resignation letter personally attacking Mr Brown's style of Government and the overwhelming pre-eminence of men.
"You have a two-tier Government, your inner circle and then the remainder of Cabinet," she said.
"Several of the women attending Cabinet – myself included – have been treated by you as little more than female window dressing."
2 comments:
Another vindictive cow who isn't fit to judge other's.
If society was as tolerant and forgiving as she is, then she and a good few other's would be found in a shollow scrape in the ground with a double tap in the back of the head and a bit of soil thrown in on top.
She like many people exist only as individuals within society. They take everything that society can give them but will never give a single thing back to society in return.
But many such people exist only for themselves and what they can get out of life, nothing else, and it has to be said that they do not really care for their children or anyone else's, let alone future generations because they wouldn't do what they do.
Such actions are key to showing whether one is a mere aninmal or has transcended the limitations of primitive animal behaviour to become a true human being.
Two arms, two legs, a gob to shout with with, something to piss and shit with, use of a language even, doesn't necessarily make a human! being.
Sadly all, very true.
She and many other's view the quality of a human being, purely as being defined how much money and power that one has?
The more of each that one has, the better human being that one is!
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