The Labour cabinet at 14 January 2001

Few members of PM Tony Blair's Labour cabinet of 2001 could call themselves 'normal' in terms of their family lives. Several are divorced, many of these remarried, and three are openly homosexual.

Is it surprising that the Government will not make the necessary radical changes to family law ?

We name those mentioned in the article :

• divorcees : Jack Straw (remarried), Clare Short (remaried), Alan Milburn (cohabits), Baroness Jay (remarried), Robin Cook (remarried), David Blunkett (remains single), Alastair Darling (remarried), Lord Irvine (married Donald Dewar's ex-wife)
• married to divorcees : Margaret Becket, Mo Mowlam
• fathered child out of marriage : Stephen Byers (and now cohabits)
• openly homosexual : Peter Mandelson (has long-term 'partner'), Chris Smith (has long-term 'partner'), Nick Brown
• what the article refers to as "uncomplicated marriages" : Tony Blair, John Prescott, Anne Taylor, Andrew Smith, Gordon Brown, John Reid, Paul Murphy
• never married : Anne Widdecombe.

We mention Baroness Jay in particular (third from left in mugshots in the article below), as she is Leader of the House of Lords and Minister for Women. She is described as responding to a White Paper (early draft of law or policy) by being "infuriated" that statements which indicated that "marriage was more likely to create a stable upbringing for children ... would offend divorced or cohabiting parents".

It is clear, as described elsewhere on this website, that the real agenda of feminists is to destroy marriage and men's rights in the family. The feminists rarely if ever openly say this of course, so create smoke-screen statements such as not wanting to "offend divorced or cohabiting parents".

Acknowledgement : article in The Sunday Telegraph of Sunday 14 January 2001.