Where have all the Tory ladies gone?

Submitted by Mary Reid on Saturday, April 3, 2010

The current Conservative group on Kingston Council consists of 2 women and 19 men.

Now you might have thought they would be trying to redress that imbalance in the future. But a Conservative leaflet that has gone out across the borough gives photos of all their candidates for the local elections on May 6th.

Out of 48 candidates, only 12 are female. And some of these are standing in unwinnable wards.

Of course, the actual outcome lies in the hands of the voters, but my prediction is that however many seats they gain overall, the next Conservative group will have, at most, four women members.

Mary Reid's blog

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I live in Hook - the one in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, not the one on Hampshire -.and blog about local things that interest me, and sometimes about the big political issues as well.

I was a Liberal Democrat councillor for Chessington North and Hook ward from 1997-2010, and retired undefeated.