Left-wing men are the ‘absolute worst’ sexists and despite wanting equality they ‘don’t think of women on the same level’, claims Labour MP Jess Phillips
She claimed a leading Guardian journalist had ‘lectured’ her that Harriet Harman, Labour’s ex-deputy leader, ‘was not that great for women’
LABOUR MP Jess Phillips says left-wing men are the “absolute worst” sexists and are guilty of benign neglect in the fight for sexual equality.
She claimed that although they want to see females treated the same as males, “they don’t think of women on the same level”.
The member for Birmingham Yardley said: “When they close their eyes at night and think of amazing people who have changed the world, it’s always some white dude that pops into their head.”
She also claimed a leading left-wing journalist from The Guardian had “lectured” her that Harriet Harman, Labour’s ex-deputy leader, “was not that great for women”.
Speaking at the Edinburgh International Book Festival the leading feminist campaigner said the figure, whom she declined to identify, also told her Jeremy Corbyn had “always voted the right way”.
Ms Philipps said sarcastically: “So yeah, Jeremy Corbyn better for women than Harriet Harman, obviously.
“I remember him in all those meetings, there with his banners.”
And she described in general that the “well meaning” and “left-leaning” men were worse than what someone else described as the “out and out sexists of the right”.
She said: “They are the worst, the actual worst.
“Men said they supported better female representation but, when it came to losing their own jobs, they would say, ‘Oh, you mean me? But I am so clever. I’ve got so much to offer the world’.
“They are literally the worst.”
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She added later that this she feels “so cross about this”.
Ms Phillips added: “Men who want to own your equality and the things you fought for are absolutely fine if they want you to own it as well but when they want it to puff out their own chests, that is really, really, really annoying,”
The Corbyn critic, who once said she will “knife him in the front” if he damages the party, attacked the Labour Party’s industrial strategy saying women were “entirely missing” from because it was all about “men with shovels”.
And earlier this year she blasted the leader’s top team for looking down on women as “patronised poor people” who need the “big important men to save them”.
The chair of the Women’s Parliamentary Labour claimed the party “isn’t ready” for a female leader while it believes women cannot help them win male votes.