Bewitched by Samantha and Sarah? (From Bournemouth Echo)

Bewitched by Samantha and Sarah?

7:30am Monday 15th March 2010 in

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DAVID Cameron can cook a bit but makes a mess, according to his wife, Samatha, who was interviewed on telly last night. And Gordon Brown is romantic and, you guessed it, messy, revealed his wife, Sarah, in an online chat.

So now we know. The leading contenders battling to be prime minister after the election can make a mess.

Do others find the way that politicians’ wives are wheeled out in their metaphorical pinnies at the sniff of an election demeaning?

You can almost smell the spin and you know the whole performance will have been carefully rehearsed to make sure we get the PR message the party wants pumped out about the women’s, surprise, surprise, ever-so-strong partners.

And when the fuss is over you might sneakily wish you could vote for sensible Sarah, Samantha or Miriam Clegg, rather than their politician partners?

(You might also say the same about Michelle Obama and a host of other highly capable women who haven’t stood for office.) The scandal of our British political system is the shamefully low number of women in key roles.

With just 126 female MPs (a pitiful 19.5 per cent), women are lamentably under-represented in the House of Commons. And, regardless of who wins the election, that disgraceful situation looks likely to continue.

Samantha, Sarah and co may be lovingly supportive of their husbands… but they should be banging the drum for change.

Years ago men used to say a woman’s place was in the home. They were very wrong.

A woman’s place is in the House.