...and it's not infighting:
...friends of Allegra Stratton, the new press secretary to the prime minister, said she had been “in tears all morning” as a result of what she believed were critical briefings by Johnson’s former director of communications, Lee Cain.You hire someone to deal with press, often hostile press, and before she's even found out where the toilets are or who she needs to call to order more printer paper she's running to the ladies for a tissue because the big boys are being mean to her?
HARDEN UP, PRINCESS!
I must have missed the 'West Wing' episode where CJ Cregg dealt with people who were sniping behind her back by bursting into tears. I'm sure Aaron Sorkin must have written one...
Stratton, who will be the public face of the government, believes Cain told numerous journalists over the previous 24 hours that she was not the first choice for the job and had not been top of the list of a panel chosen to make the high-profile appointment.
I guess we can see why! But Boris is no stranger to snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, now is he?
Stratton later told the Observer: “Yes, I am upset because I was only ever trying to do the right thing by the country. And the country does not want to be run by people in No 10 who treat people discourteously and unpleasantly.”
Does it want to be run by people who hire a blubbering ninny to speak for them then? I think you'll find the answer's 'No', sweetie.
So much for all these strong independent women who are more than an equal for any man...........the brutal fact is that while there are undoubtedly women who can prosper in such environments (I know one such who rose rapidly through a large multinational company in the 1980s, and she didn't achieve that by bursting into tears every time some one said something nasty about her) they are few and far between. The majority of women do not have the steel to cope with such cut-throat environments. Equally the average man would struggle too, but of the people who can cope 95% are male.
ReplyDeleteWho knew a former BBC & Guardian journo would be a bad hire for a Conservative administration?
ReplyDeleteIt's the perfect microcosm of the problem. Labour gets in and appoints hacks like Kier Starmer to supposedly apolitical jobs like chief prosecutor, then the Tories get in and appoint the self-same sort of people.
Tough luck if you're an actual conservative journo out there. Tories won't hire anyone that might lead to them being mocked over the canapes at fancy north London parties.
"So much for all these strong independent women who are more than an equal for any man."
ReplyDeleteThat seems to have been a myth all along, despite my knowing more than a few in my time.
"Who knew a former BBC & Guardian journo would be a bad hire for a Conservative administration?"
Heh!