'Madness': the ten best Tweets on today's gender ruling

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This is just crocodile tears by the insurers. They are secretly hugging themselves at the prospect of windfall profits. I also do general business and it will mean higher premiums - therefore higher commission. Overall whether car insurance or annuities it is surely not beyond the wit of computerisation and actuarial talent to work out a mean. If it means that they are making bigger profits on women how about working out an average and then raising the rates for women somewhat and lowering it for men proportionately? We speak of Europe as though it were some amorphous lump – a typical British attitude. What I just cannot comprehend is that the various European countries – who are no more or less ‘right on’ PC than we are – stand for this crap. We should be pressing for a European plebiscite on all this Human Rights and gender equality nonsense. I can certainly see the Italians, Spanish, Portuguese, Germans, Poles, Austrians, British and goodness knows who else roundly voting against all this. So what power will the ECJ have then? Why don’t our MPS start working for their money and see if they can’t muster support.

Posted by: Harry Katz

Gender-bending ; the good news!

Amongst all this moaning, there is logically one consolation for the blokes - at least we will presumably now be allowed to play of the Ladies' Tees! (Or will they have to play off the Mens'?!)

Posted by: John Eaton