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Let’s hear it for the girly swots!

(56 Posts)
EllanVannin Sat 05-Oct-19 11:21:03

Of judges in general---they don't always get it right !

Jane10 Sat 05-Oct-19 11:18:18

I wasn't impressed by this and feel it undermines the integrity of her judgement in the Johnson matter.
Far too easy to come out with these cheap phrases. Leave that to Johnson.
I'm a girly swot and proud - but not of Lady Hale.

jura2 Sat 05-Oct-19 10:54:41

Hurrah- oh I wonder what Theresa thinks of the antithesis to girly swats now.

Apricity Sat 05-Oct-19 10:50:53

Oh. Yes! I'm all for the 'Girly Swots', saw the article in the Oz Guardian and loved it. All power to the Girly Swots. Maybe our time has finally come. ???????

Whitewavemark2 Sat 05-Oct-19 08:11:47

Yes saw that maw

Brilliant!

MawB Sat 05-Oct-19 08:10:43

Go, girl, Baroness Hale! I am liking this woman more and more.
As seen in today’s paper

BARONESS HALE was last night criticised by Cabinet ministers for “exercising poor judgment” after she opened a speech with the words “Let’s hear it for the girly swots”, standing in front of a presentation entitled “Spider woman takes down Hulk: Viewers transfixed by judge’s brooch as ruling crushed PM
The Supreme Court president, who last month declared the Prime Minister’s prorogation of Parliament “unlawful” while wearing a spider brooch, was speaking at the Association of State Girls’ Schools (ASGS) conference in Westminster yesterday.
She said her number one piece of advice to young women is: “Don’t let the bastards get you down!” The “girly swots” phrase was an apparent reference to an insult Boris Johnson used about former prime minister David Cameron in a leaked Cabinet paper.