Whats amused you (in the news) today ?

Or not as it's largely a myth. His peak popularity was +14, dropping to -45 on departure.

Analysis of pollsters on 2019 show much of the 'red wall' result derived from Labour collapse but also an underlying trend of increasing Tory vote that was already underway at happened mostly under May with only a modest further rise under Boris. eg Bolsover where May doubled the vote, Boris only bumped it be a few % & wouldnt have one the seat if the Lab vote hadn't collapsed.

Boris needs to be consigned to history ... time for serious politicians ... if we can find any

Actually quite a lot of women plumbers and electricians and in other building trades, why not?

Comparatively and more in training, not that long ago there were virtually none, as it wasn't considered a woman's job ala Michaelc. Now girls are positively encouraged to go into those sorts of skilled trade apprenticeships. Women are still under represented in many areas, not for lack of ability. The figure I found for trades people was about 1% female www.ciob.org/news/uk-crying-out-for-female-tradespeople-says-research-by-the-chartered-institute-of-building, which is probably higher than I would have expected.

My plumber is female. She's also done bathroom & kitchen fittings and flooring - not all at the same time, she gets repeat business because she's superb. I've been on-site during the work and only observation of biological impact is that her relatively smaller frame meant she could access smaller/more awkward areas than a standard build male (probably) could. I did ask about the low representation of females within trades and apparently a big part is so many older tradespeople (i.e. typically men that trainees do their apprenticeships with) are "insecure, sexist knobs" making it an unrewarding experience. Paraphrasing slightly but not much. 

We shouldn’t go backwards like Turkey, having institutions teaching female students only.

Women and Men should behave in any environments without making others feel unsafe

Why are men not worried if a woman walks in to a man only space, answer is men are not frightened of women who 'identify' as men. Women confronted by an obvious male, possibly flaunting are necessarily concerned for their safety, particularly if the women's space does not have many actual women present. Has nothing to do with what jobs women can do though. 

CERTAINLY NOT AMUSING SITUATION... But i simply cannot stop thinking about the 5 people on the titan submersable .... what they must be enduring is unthinkable. please god find them alive. though i dont hold out much hope.. so sad.