Femocracy – welcome to the benign new world of female governance

Call it femocracy or gynocracy (my preference), or, a new age of women, as Justine Greening has it, the excited consensus is that we’re in for a benign new world of female governance. Hillary in the US, Theresa May over here, Ruth Davidson and Nicola Sturgeon in Scotland, Angela Merkel in Germany…what could be more lovely? Except possibly the addition of Marine Le Pen at the helm in France, though oddly enough feminists rarely bring her into the new scheme of things… she’s up there with Sarah Palin as an female unmentionable. Oh and let’s not forget Angela Eagle as potential Labour leader, whose tearfulness as she knifed Jeremy Corbyn with her resignation this week was, I suppose, endearing to some.

Obviously, only Angela Merkel and Nicola Sturgeon are actually in charge right now and Mrs Merkel’s performance has already rather clouded the notion that female governance equals competence… her catastrophic error of judgment in aggravating the refugee crisis by admitting 1.1