“WORLD FIRST AS TRISH LAW TAKES ASSEMBLY SEAT
Jul 5 2006
Martin Shipton, Western Mail
AS TRISH LAW took her seat in the National Assembly yesterday after winning the Blaenau Gwent by-election, Wales became the first legislature in the world with more women than men.
It is supremely ironic that the row which began with an objection to all-women shortlists should end with a woman Independent defeating a Labour man whose party had originally insisted on imposing a female candidate.”
(I love that Lee, a Labour Party worker employed by an employee of Sue Essex AM and aspiring Social Policy lecturer with a pet hamster called Charlie is currently listening to Dragonforce’s Inhuman Rampage.)
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The world is a strange place. Wales leading the way on equality.
Those of us who know Charlie are well aware that he is both inhuman and prone to rampages, thus defeating any apparent irony.
Just to clear up that I’m not a “Labour Party Worker” as I’m not employed by the party. I am employed by Sue Essex AM and happen to be a party member. Not all of Sue’s staff are party members. And at the moment Charlie isn’t having many rampages as it is too hot.