Yesterday, Hornsey and Wood Green MP, Lynne Featherstone fully stretched her wings as she settled into her new role as Lib Dem Youth & Equalities Spokesperson by tackling sexism, not at ground level, but right at the top behind Buckingham Palace gates.

Politics just wouldn’t be the same without our Lynne. Some would say she’s articulate, rather glamourous (she was voted 7th most fanciable MP) and always a good source for news, or at the very least, a laugh. And she certainly knows how to get a reaction. Even if it’s just from Brian Coleman, Conservative member of the London Assembly, voted the 38th most influential gay person in British politics today. Woah. It’s a clash of the titans.

Lynne’s only gone and referred the case of James Windsor, Prince Edward’s first son, overtaking his sister, Lady Louise, as eigth in line to the throne to the equality commission condemning it as an “arcane practice that might have suited the grey bearded king makers of old but it is completely at odds with how a head of state should be selected in modern Britain.”

While I’m sure Prince Edward felt her efforts were just adding insult to injury, considering it would take the killer ambition of Macbeth and Richard III for him to get on the throne, it is Brian Coleman that has taken offence to Lynne’s latest stunt releasing a statement saying, “There is no need at all to tinker with many hundreds of year of history. Has she got nothing better to do?!”

But maybe she has a point.

Men still get better pay than women and hold better positions in the workplace. Women still cannot escape basic stereotypes of femininity - being dubbed irrational when they shed a tear or accused of being a robot if they don't. As we’ve seen with the debate surrounding Mrs Clinton this week, they can also be seen as she-devils that use their emotions to their political advantage.

But why should we expect the situation to improve if the traditions of this country consider it acceptable to sidestep a woman for the highest position of all, head of state, in place of a man. It is absurd. Either women are equal, or they're not. Can we have selective principles?

Yes, bringing the case forward is equally as absurd and I’d wager that nothing will come of it and I doubt Lynne herself expects so. If the case isn’t thrown out by the commission (on grounds of shameless pedantry) it would be interesting to see what decision would be made when referring to current laws on equality.

Well, thanks Lynne for giving me something to blog about. Whatever will you do next week?