Despite the fact that it's 2015, the new make-up of the House of Commons' culture, media and sport select committee is entirely white men.
The list of MPs elected to the government's new culture, media and sport select committee has been revealed – and there are more men called Nigel on it than women.
That's not saying much, however, as there are, in fact, zero women on the list. (So, actually, one Nigel would have done it. This is frankly an embarrassment of Nigels.)
The committee is also entirely white.
From the Guardian's report:
The new committee, headed by Jesse Norman, includes a number of familiar faces: Labour’s Paul Farrelly, a member since 2005; the Conservatives’ Damian Collins, a member from 2010 to 2012; and Labour’s Steve Rotherham, a member from 2011 until the end of the last parliament.
Collins, and new member Tory MP Jason McCartney, were in the hunt to replace Whittingdale, now culture secretary, as the committee’s chairman.
Overall, six of the 11 members are Conservative MPs.
They include Andrew Bingham, a member of the European scrutiny committee from 2013 to 2015; Nigel Huddleston, newly elected as an MP in May; and Nigel Adams, an MP since 2010.
Four Labour MPs are on the committee, including Ian Lucas, most recently shadow defence minister during the last parliament, and the newly-elected Chris Matheson.
The final spot has been taken by the SNP’s John Nicolson.
That's all. This mole is too depressed to be funny.