Conservatives for Women

There is form for this - the Thatcherite approach was a new thing in conservative circles, and it didn't really sit well with many of them. While there does tend to be a focus in empowering small units like families or small businesses, old-fashioned conservatism also tended to be big on stabilising social structures and governments embarking on significant projects like railways and infrastructure and such, and even caring for less well of elements in society. At one time it tended to be opposed to liberals who wanted fewer controls on business and a loosening of obligations to the working classes by the state or business.

Right now we're arguably seeing a resurgence of some of that kind of conservatism, pushing back at the Thatcherite neoliberal version which has had the rug ripped out from under it ideologically speaking. It's ideas about the economy have failed, and it's only the power struggle keeping neolibalism in place. There's a lot more articles about traditional conservative concepts and ideas being bandied around within right wing media at the moment than there have been for many years and I think increasingly people are receptive to those ideas.

If the LP can be transformed to a kind of liberal Party, why not transform the Tories into an actual conservative party?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4098426-Conservatives-For-Women-launch-today

So, how do we square what Jackie Doyle Price, Liz Truss, Baroness Nicolson and a bunch of other Tories have done for women with Crispin Blunt in general and Ruth Davidson's astonishing rape clause in the child benefit stuff, and the fact that austerity hits women hardest?

Cos, I think I am going to have to vote Tory as they are the ones nearest to actually stating that "woman" means "adult human female".

But, it makes me feel dirty.

It can be important in some ways, but the PM doesn't dictate or necessarily even represent everything the party is about, ideologically speaking. I think a party could easily be anti-woman (or whatever) with a leader who was not, and vice versa.

Party leaders are often chosen for reasons unrelated to their personal morals, and many people never have a strong affinity for the leaders of any parties available to be voted for, they vote or reasons unconnected with that person's personal life or views.

They've posted on here before. I sent one of their newsletters to my Tory MP and he emailed back in support.

If we lose the definition of ‘woman’, we lose everything.

Our lives have been marked and shaped by being born female, I would sooner lose my home than forfeit my identity as a woman. It is the most important issue to me.

I will vote for whichever party will protect the definition of woman and hence protect me. If that is the Conservatives, then so be it.

And yet the one remaining party that still has a grip on what a woman is.

It is a pressure group within the Conservative Party. A party still led by a misogynist, and one whose actions have harmed women greatly at both a political and personal level.

Sadly it does feel like the Tory party are the only ones standing up for women's sex based rights. I'm very disappointed by Labour's mealy mouthed misogyny.

Particularly pleased to see they have lodged a formal complaint about Penny Mordaunt's behaviour at the dispatch box.

I would rather walk over the hot coals of hell than vote conservative.

That is excellent!