Let me explain - a quote for the number of women in a given role implies that:
A: Women can't get there on merit.
B: Women are discriminated against and therefore can't get there on merit.
C: Both of the above (surprising what some believe).
Corbyn shouldn't even have defended his pics, he should have just told the media to bog off.
BTW, I don't think the media are being any harsher on him than any other new leader - the Torygraph is obviously trying to knife him but other than that I think he's getting fairly generous coverage.
You point to his expenses, where he has nothing to hide, as rightly being a badge of merit but I can equally point to his links to the IRA or Hamas, or his support for contemporary Russia, and those do raise questions, and possibly more serious ones than billing the taxpayer to have your moat cleaned.
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