[Margaret Pilkington]

Yes...me too.
I don't think the gender of the MP matters one jot.
What matters is how they relate to their constituents.
Do they know the difficulties of the area they represent? Do they have ideas as to how those difficulties can be overcome or reduced...are they happy to go against the will of the party to represent their constituents?
I think that the Labour Party are deluded if they think that putting women up for selection will get them out of the hole they dug for themselves...their problems are many and varied, but what they just don't get is that the electorate wants to be listened to. To have their concerns acknowledged...and actions put into place to deal with the concerns.

What the electorate certainly do NOT need is sneery, snidey comments that some politicians use...They do not need the politicians to regard the electorate as brainless ill educated plebs.