The Conservatives are shameless in their exploitation of women

There are many on here who still subscribe to the little woman principle.

Women have no agency and should be given a free pass for fiddling the social.

I was listening to a report on the radio. My understanding is that you can earn up to a limit if you receive carer's allowance, but if you exceed the limit you could be asked to pay some of the carer's allowance back.

This limit is nothing new and I don't believe it's only the Tories who tell the DWP to ask for it back, it happens regardless of who is in government.

The limit is very low, as is carers allowance itself, and I think that there should be some leeway if someone has exceeded the limit due something like being asked to do extra hours one week, or a bonus etc.

But if people are being asked to pay back thousands of pounds, then surely the implication is that they were way over the limit on a regular basis and would have therefore known the consequences?

The Tories have had three women leaders.

What did those women leaders do to improve the lives of women?

They certainly do. They're people to be taken advantage of because they'll save the nation a fortune in care costs - but Heaven forfend if they should earn a few pennies over the limit, they must be punished. Women are also people who should stay in abusive relationships, as evidenced by the cuts in council funding leading to the closure of refuge places. Women are there to do the shitty zero hours insecure jobs, the temp jobs that have just had their rights to paid holiday and sick leave removed, because women don't need such things. Oh yes, the Tories know what a woman is.

At least the Tories know what a woman is.

Oh god I remember her! She lived on MN posting spurious comments such as she had a boat and could sail into the UK unchecked and kept banging on and on about Boris Johnson's birthday party. Thankfully she's been kicked off or institutionalised. Those types spoil it for genuine posters.

I'd love to see Yvette Cooper as PM. Or Angela Rayner. Oh no, wait, she's the wrong kind of woman.

I beg to differ. The rules are complex and some of the people involved (92 year old women with dementia anyone) were extremely vulnerable. Moreover in these cases the DWP knew the rules were being broken from day 1 and yet waited years, allowing the total to build up, before contacting the people in question. That's either incompetent or wilfully cruel, and I know where my money is.

If a handful of trans people are more important to you than government cruelty towards very vulnerable people, your moral compass is malfunctioning.

Do you mean : Right, so having 'views' is as bad as applying clearly defined consequences to people who knowingly broke a rule?

I would say it is not as bad, it is worse.

Well, yeah, it kind of is... at least one of those six could have been a woman. Fact is, it wasn't. Yet it's the Tories who 'exploit' women...

What's say we flip the script? How does Labour NOT exploit women? Surely that would be the more productive conversation - and an even better way to 'compare like with like', wouldn't you say?

This!
Three female Prime Ministers historically and current PM from an ethnic background - unlike Labour, whose past 10 leaders have all been middle-aged, white men!

Historically, Labour women have only been 'allowed' to fill in temporarily and these days the party can't even say what a woman is!

For the record, can't stand the Tories either - but we do need to state facts!

None of that matters. Doesn't change the fact there have still be three female Tory Prime Ministers, which somewhat refutes the OP's claim.
Whether you like what those female PMs did is frankly neither here nor there.

@IvorTheEngineDriver ah yes, that argument. Let's see:

Maggie Thatcher, the root cause of our current housing shortage.
Theresa May with her 'citizens of nowhere' crap and the hostile environment.
Liz Truss, who massively increased mortgage payments for tens of thousands of people.

I don't care what sex or colour my politicians are. I want them to be competent and boring.

Would this be the same Conservative Party that has given us 3 female Prime Ministers while Labour cannot even manage one female Party Leader?

(And no, Margaret Beckett and Harriet Harmen as "Temporary Acting Leader" doesn't count.)

OP is bringing balance to the force after the influx of pro-Tory posts.

While the right wing is sexist without concealing it, the left wing is sexist while at the same time autoproclaming itself as progressive. Among other things, the left wing supports gender ideology, which is founded on misogyny.

Personally I think it's about time we had a counter to all the 'oh, aren't Labour awful' threads around how terrible they will be for women, how they will screw the economy and how boring Keir Starmer is. Sauce for the goose and all that.

Can 40 year old mums not work for the Labour Party then? Didn’t know that.

Yes I have. So what are you implying?