Kemi Badenoch knows what a woman is.

Well schools could save money by for example not outsourcing RSE to dodgy organisations? Just a thought

For goodness sake this stuff is getting ridiculous. Have you actually read her views and policy ideas? Or has she just said the buzzword you like to hear and do you’re all in? It’s absolutely ridiculous. Why don’t you start looking at what will actually affect women in this country - economic policy, childcare, domestic violence help provision, money in healthcare and not be so bloody minded.

And at some point you might want to look at the type of people you are consistently aligning yourself with and think about what that might mean.

Very concerned about her alluding to cutting the degree requirement for nurses.

Yep. That's the point though isn't it. Public spending seems to get oddly reduced to the social care and welfare state (largely). So in Cameron's austerity we saw adult social care budgets in local authorities slashed by a third, and look at all the problems with that sector.

I remember listening to a more or less podcast with an analyst getting pretty sarcastic about how pathetic a difference to public spending that kind of local authority cut makes. Especially compared to the pain it causes. When there is a lot of other public spending that could be cut. But the debate never seems to move on!

I have voted Labour (or Lib Dem tactically) all my life until this idiocy raised its head. I’m no Tory. However, all the Tory shroud waving about shrinking the state did get me thinking. We have a rapidly ageing population with a shrinking income tax base. If we want to protect services for the most vulnerable and the NHS, something will have to give. I’m not on board with many Tories’ thinking or their policies, but there is some truth in public spending being an issue we need to address. Like all the #BeKind stuff, MPs could show some leadership by shouldering the same crap pay settlements and reduced employee benefits as the rest of the public sector: You first!

Yep she will decimate public services, many of which support vulnerable women, but as long as she says what you want about the definition of a woman

She wants schools to reduce their spending on surplus staff etc. This is so she can cut taxes. I imagine she thinks this is applicable to other areas of public spending too.

I would love her to spend a week in a school and then tell us where we can reduce the surplus. We are on the bones of our arses. No private school would be thinking this way with budgets so stretched - they put fees up.

If you have a child in state school, or plan to have one in the future, you'll regret a vote for her.

until I read she would reduce the size of the state