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You needn't have taken the quote down, I'm not going to call the cops or my lawyer. Rest easy. Why don't you cite your references? Did you just check whether you're anything like Alan Partridge on wikipedia or something? Paranoid.
Regarding the quote, Indy Scot, it is not misrepresentation - it is simply that you are trying to face both ways at the same time. As for your second point, I am sure even the likes of Alan Partridge would agree with that.
@Gary Taylor it may be from the article i referenced but i do not agree with that quote. that's misrepresentation. It'd be better if the world was governed with egalitarianism rather than one sex ruling and the other not. Presently it is still man's world with much work to do to redress that imbalance.
David Brent? You haven't seen the dance yet! As for Alan Partridge, Coogan describes his character as "a little Englander, with right-wing values and poor taste." Aside from the latter (especially when it comes to tee-shirts) I think you must be thinking of somebody else.
Or again if your names Paul Nuttall.
@Gary Taylor thank you for keeping us entertained, you never fail to make us laugh here. very Partridge-esque with a dose of David Brent too!
Quite, Leatash. Lovely to hear it in common usage in Devon. But on one point I can at least agree with Indy Scot (quoting from the article he refers to above) "... it's not girls that run the world - although one day it may be women."
Interesting if you live in Cromer, Norfolk.
So if Marie Chadwick wins a seat in parliament the Speaker of the House would refer to her as the 'right honourable Maid for Newton Abbot'? Or whatever local phraseology is relevant to the Speakers home town or Westminster?
How about MAID, a local maid as used in local phraseology