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Louis Staples
Mar 25, 2019

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Brexit is a frightful mess, isn’t it?
If things weren’t terrible enough for embattled prime minister Theresa May, she had a rather spiky set of meetings on Sunday at Chequers – the prime minister’s official rural residence – to decide the future of the country.
This came after reports suggested May's own cabinet were calling for her resignation and organising a coup against her.
Let’s just say, based on this list, we’re not very envious of the her Sunday…
Cast list at Chequers was: Boris Johnson Jacob Rees Mogg Steve Baker Dominic Raab Damian Green David Davis Iain Du… https://t.co/MQ8kV5MUVL— Paul Waugh (@Paul Waugh) 1553452410
Though, politics aside, people are calling out the prime minister for the shocking lack of diversity in these crucial meetings.
Novelist Stephanie Merritt pointed out that May had invited not just more men, but more men named Steve, than women.
More men called Steve than women in this meeting to decide the country's future 🙄 https://t.co/jEUh8OTXtF— Stephanie Merritt (@Stephanie Merritt) 1553452827
Others agreed. Is it too much to ask that one woman, other than the PM, be present at meetings to decide the country’s future?
@thestephmerritt Absolute joke and disgraceful.— Maltloaf (@Maltloaf) 1553477189
@thestephmerritt @CCriadoPerez More representatives of each of the following institutions than women: Eton College… https://t.co/GCGV5bwotP— Lucy (@Lucy) 1553461664
@thestephmerritt There should also be more women than Borises.— Ali Lemer (@Ali Lemer) 1553453854
Journalist Jane Merrick thought that, without men arguing, women could untangle the Brexit mess together.
No offence but stick 14 women around the table and Brexit would be sorted by sunset https://t.co/lMzT7kJIYi— Jane Merrick (@Jane Merrick) 1553456089
Author Malorie Blackman, who wrote the iconic Noughts & Crosses series, also pointed out a staggering lack of racial diversity.
Not one PoC. Only one woman. Representative of the country as a whole? My left buttock they are. https://t.co/3I18NA2uv1— Malorie Blackman is away. (@Malorie Blackman is away.) 1553502564
Another day, another round of criticism for the PM.
At this point Theresa May is probably wishing she had a time machine to take her back to the days when her only worries were which wheat field she'd be running through.
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