Mary: "…cutting out all that waste…" Gisela: "If there's waste to cut out, why hasn't he done it yet?" :) #malemonopoly
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Mary glosses over the women stuff and gets back to the Boris script - boring. #malemonopoly
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Caroline focussed on nasty media coverage of women in politics in her summing-up. Why would women subject themselves to that? #malemonopoly
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Mary supervague in answer, talking about "parliamentarians working together" on issues. 'Oddly' doesn't mention voting record! #malemonopoly
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Natalie says it's "absolutely extraordinary" that in 2012 we're still having to defend abortion rights. Two-doc rule should go #malemonopoly
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Q about abortion and contraception access for women in London. @Helzbels whispers that Mary once voted to lower abortion limit #malemonopoly
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Siobhan's good on this as an outsider as opposed to a rather institutionalised member. Wouldn't be acceptable in any other job #malemonopoly
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Gisela's not winning many friends here by defending the Parliamentary tradition of shouting at each other across the chamber. #malemonopoly
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Caroline's v disappointed at Nick Clegg's lack of action on women in government. Suspect she's disappointed more broadly too! #malemonopoly
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Caroline defends Mayor's Question Time, saying many Qs from women are very good but the Mayor's answering lets them down #malemonopoly
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Gisela says she's not naturally supportive of quotas, but thinks when talking about power, they're probably necessary #malemonopoly
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Gisela: "Bad news: politics is not a meritocracy. Equality will be when there's as many useless women MPs as useless men ones" #malemonopoly
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Mary also opposes quotas. They seem to fear quota-appointed women might not be amazing… as if all men currently appointed are! #malemonopoly
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Natalie returns to the topic du jour last time we saw her, at #FEM11, quotas. Siobhan opposes quotas, wants to address causes. #malemonopoly
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Q asks what we'd need to do to get to a point where a meeting like this was insane because obviously all issues affect women #malemonopoly
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Q on FGM. Gisela says Ken's the one to pursue subjects people don't want to talk about; recalls his ridiculed LGBT work in 80s #malemonopoly
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Natalie: Boris's traffic smoothing was intended to allow cars to go faster, and it has - average speed up from 7.5 to 7.6mph! #malemonopoly
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Natalie Bennett's pointing out the Greens have had women candidates twice running, in Siân Berry & now Jenny Jones #malemonopoly
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Gisela says at press event earlier, Ken asked where are journalists properly holding City Hall to account? Online only, sadly. #malemonopoly
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Gisela Stuart goes off piste for some feminist history. She wants women to "make the weather ourselves", "stock our necks out" #malemonopoly
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Siobhan wants to extend tube to run late on Fri/Sat (and trains to run all night!) #newbieundeliverablepromisebingo #malemonopoly
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Siobhan says she's the only candidate with an education manifesto. I wonder why… #nodevolvedpowers #malemonopoly
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Siobhan Benita says women don't have enough voice in mayoral election. Differs from usual message by expanding "I"->"women" ;) #malemonopoly
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Whoops, apparently the hashtag is #malemonopoly, not #MayoralMonopoly as I heard with my foolish male ears :)
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