MK on Brexit

[dmg]

News from from the Garrick Club:
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/bitterly-divided-garrick-club-prepares-to-vote-on-female-membership-again/ar-AA1o7yfo?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=7237896b01974202af5adaf521123ef8&ei=20

They must have known the rules when they joined and while they used the facilities - what a bunch of virtue signalling hypocrites.  By their measure, groups like the WI will have to let men in and I don't think that's what women want.  By the sound of things it would surely be best for the club if they were booted out and they could all be happy and back to normality again.

[Knopflerfan]

You mention the WI which like you say is Women only unlike the Mothers Union which is open to all it appears...
maybe its time for change all round and to make things inclusive and that is what Mssrs Fry and Knopfler want to do with the Garrick Club.

Maybe the Garrick Club can take a leaf out of Marylebone Cricket Club which from 1787 until 1998 was a solely male orientated club. In 1998 Women were allowed as members and by all accounts the MCC is flourishing!

[stratmad]

Whatever the motivation was for joining, it seems like a whole bunch of creative people (including MK, Stephen Fry and Sting), are now threatening to quit:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/30/garrick-club-women-female-members-stephen-fry-sting.

They have penned an open letter, explaining their cause:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/22/equality-groups-urge-cultural-elite-to-give-up-garrick-club-membership


This has obviously turned into a highly political matter, and it's no longer only about the Garrick, but a whole system. I'm amazed to see MK not just making very clear statements, but actually starting a "revolution". Keep surprising us, Mark! 

[ds1984]

I don't follow the Garrick Club controversy closely and I find hard to opinion about someone I don't personaly know.

Of course knowing that Mark is part of this club is questionning.

Just I have difficulties to think that Mark would have actively supported that rule before the scandal arised. Very personal opinion.

Some call him an hypocrite but was that question just out of his scope ?

Well anybody can say ?