Calm down dear, calm down...

[ixion]

A tad patronising?

[karenmac60]

What trig said.

[DTCwordfan]

A storm in a teacup - cant be too much other news of note, other than GDP for Q1,
Syria and the forthcoming WC show at the Abbey.

Not much different than most QTs in the House and the speaker intervened on Cameron 's behalf to get the Labour front bench to do what Cameron had said, "Calm down." Trading insults goes with the job when you are on the front bench. Puerile (and whatever the female equivalent is) maybe but it has always been like that - the art of the brilliant putdown may have been lost, e.g. remember the Churchill/Nancy Astor exchanges in the House.

[ethandron]

boxy, i'm really surprised how you feel about this.
if my husband said this to me, then i would take it as a joke - probably, depending on the context and the situation. however, if someone said it to me in the way david cameron did, in a formal, work-place environment then i would most certainly feel it patronising, extremely rude/impolite and sexist.

[jno]

zebadee, not necessarily, because an opposition member can't patronise the PM the same way the PM can patronise an opposition member. But if Eagles were PM and Cameron the backbencher, yes, I'd say the same thing there too. No, courts don't convict anyone of sexism, but that doesn't mean it isn't there.

[boxtops]

I feel like that because it's not worth discussing, IMO. I am tired of all this rubbish about Madam Chairwoman and person-hole covers and stuff. I can give as good as I get - if DC said something like that to me, a) I wouldn't mind and b) I'd put him down in public, at some other time, if I felt like it.

[boxtops]

^^ and eth, if my husband said that to me, I'd poke him in the eye.

[moralman]

<A storm in a teacup - cant be too much other news of note, other than GDP for Q1,
Syria and the forthcoming WC show at the Abbey.>
Well, DT, let's all discuss really imporatant things like some of your other posts: Bruce Forsyth at Aintree, for example.
Ron, Karen, Ethan, jno: Hear, hear

[jno]

oh it's not 'important', boxy, it just makes our prime minister look like Michael Winner, and how cool is that?

[ethandron]

fair enough boxy. i'd have almost put money on you feeling differently .......and i've probably poked my husband in the eye for far less in the past :)

[anneasquith]

plonker !

[joeluke]

He told a fellow MP to "Calm down dear" - what's the big deal?

If he'd said "Calm down you stupid b1tch" then yes there would be a case to answer

Mountain out of a molehill

[boxtops]

Don't get me wrong, jno, eth, I'm not saying I'd not find it patronising - but I'd not get wound up about DC taking off Michael Winner..... it's just been on the TV too. What we can't see (if it was me) is said lady mouthing "p1ss off DC" in return.

[moralman]

Lol, Boxtops. If I'd been her I would have thought of something really clever....like dashing over and slapping that Bullingdon arse of a face he's got.

[Cowtipper]

//If he'd said "Calm down you stupid b1tch" then yes there would be a case to answer //
To say that would invite further discussion. A good solid backhand is something he could give a man but not a woman so he just told her to calm down.

[joggerjayne]

What a fuss over nothing.

Typical of the pinkos to pick on something like this to get worked up over.

[boxtops]

But it was a joke.......

[moralman]

Lynch him!! To be read with a tune: We'll keep the red flag flying here.....