Squirrel Nutkin and the WAGs

Hell hath no fury like a Woman Scorned: Well Gordon Brown has scorned three women recently and one about a year ago. Plus a number other Ladies, who feel disgruntled and marginalised since Gordon became PM.

The result the monthly Quiet Girls Night Dinners for Senior Members of the Sisterhood (a body of female Labour MPs more loyal to each other than their party and Blairites to a woman - Surely their loyalty should be to their Country, their Constituents, then their Party. Silly me, these are New Labour Politicians, self before all others) has metamorphosed into the WAGs (Women Against Gordon).
Membership of the WAGs is basically the same as the original Social Dinner Group, but with a single focussed agenda: revenge.

The fact this country is at War in Afghanistan, faces a Terrorist Threat - At time of writing this is deemed Severe and a terrorist attack is highly likely, coupled with a severe Economic Recession (leading to ever higher unemployment, exacerbating the already serious problems with the Health and Education Sectors, Business and Manufacturing), is irrelevant to this group of (sic) Honourable Ladies.

So who are the WAGs all of whom entered Politics as a Career (tsk, I mean of course Public Service - Where is that hollow laughter coming from)?
Well as they are on a bit of a recruiting drive at the moment. the list of shame that follows only covers the key members, three of whom are shown (in happier times) in the picture below:

Caroline Flint, Squirrel Nutkin & Jacqui Smith

• Caroline Flint: - Nice to Look at, but unpredictable emotional behaviour. Was a briefly gushing Gordon Groupie, until Gordon didn't give her what she wanted and immediately became the harpie from hell:
  
  
  
  Caroline Flint in Modelling Pose (at least in Modelling a hissy fit is accepted) .
• Hazel Blears: (aka Squirrel Nutkin): Resigned just before she was pushed.
  
  
  
• Jacqui Smith: Resigned before she was pushed. A relief to the Idle Man who felt she had been promoted way beyond her limited talent.
  
  
• One Apparent leading WAG not in the Group Photograph is Ruth Kelly (remember her):
  
  
• Other Current Members it appears include:
  Beverley Hughes, Patricia Hewitt, and Margaret Hodge
  

As this post is having a go at a Group of Labour Politicians, who are all Women, I think it is only fair to finish with quotes from women:

First Geraldine Smith MP writing in the Mail Online:
I’ve always been uncomfortable about women-only groups. I’m not a member of the so-called Women Against Gordon (WAGs) group as Caroline, Hazel Blears and some other Blairite MPs are. Nor would I want to be. I call it the ‘Blair Witch Project’ – not WAGs.

Jan Moir also writing in the Mail Online:
Tired of being girls interrupted, they want to be girls aloud - no matter what price the electorate must pay for their personal ambition.

What a sick joke. Especially when you consider that most of them are in office only because of Labour's notorious 'women only' candidate shortlists.

If their fate had been left to the process of natural political selection on a non-gender basis, they'd all still be teachers, sweet shop assistants, failing social workers or stay-at-home mums.

Judged on merit, all of them would merit not much more than a kick in the pants.

Instead, they are the highly-promoted beneficiaries of reverse sexism; Calamity Jane third-raters who have become drunk on the fleeting tot of power that this Government has poured them before it finally self-combusts.

None of these women is fit to iron Betty Boothroyd's tights. Or polish Barbara Castle's boots. Or even, if we must, sweep Margaret Thatcher's front steps. (Jacqui, dear, you hold the broom the other way up).

Unsurprisingly, Blears and gormless Jacqui Smith are at the core of the group, while other members include Beverley Hughes, Patricia Hewitt, Caroline Flint, Margaret Hodge and Tessa Jowell. Now that's what I call a party! Although not a political one, obviously.

Over quiet suppers in the privacy of their flipped homes, the WAGs meet to compare freebie soft furnishings and get out the taxpayer-subsidised fish knives to stab the Prime Minister in the back.They plot over pasta and cheap wine. Pesto sauce from a jar is dished up alongside over-heated, ready made Blairite grievances with a side order of sour grapes.

My heart almost cracks with the agony of it all.

Well thank you Geraldine and Jan, I guess you are both off certain peoples Christmas Card List!