Labour is betraying women

There's been a real silence from those who merrily scolded us on these boards since the election. Says it all.

If you can't define what a woman is, that will feed into all of your policies.

Were any impact assessments done on female victims prior to the release of (it appears) predominantly male prisoners? How many women are affected by the winter fuel cuts? This article suggests none of that was even considered or was just glossed over.

Even things like the inheritance tax reforms, you'd have thought, should be looked at from a male/ female perspective. Women spend their lifetimes earning far less than men (in what should be called the sex pay gap) and there is a huge disparity in pensions. I'd have thought inheritance was one of the few ways some lucky women might be fortunate enough to come into some money. Women shoulder the vast majority of the care burden in this country and I certainly wouldn't begrudge a woman (or a man, it should be said!) who has - for example - sacrificed her career and time to care for elderly parents. She's likely to have saved the state considerable care costs too.

Not to mention the fact many of the careers Labour has promised to prop up with taxpayers' money are male-dominated ones. Get Britain building again? That'll be male-dominated construction companies, then. Get the train drivers and junior doctors back to work? I believe both of those are male-dominated professions too - in the case of the train drivers, very much so.

But if you don't know what a woman is, perhaps you don't notice this stuff.

Ithink this is an interesting point.

I don't know that I'd say people were crazy to vote Labour, the fact is none of the options seemed great, all choices were kind of a compromise for most voters, I imagine.

But if anyone looks back, there were women on her who pointed out again and again that the hopes some seemed to have for Labour that involved throwing money around were pie in the sky, and not a very good reason to tick that box. For some reason some seemed to be convinced that Labour would somehow fund all these programs and get public infrastructure back up to speed, all without substantially raising taxes or depressing productivity.

Well of course they couldn't do that, and I wouldn't blame them for that either. Some of the lack of funds is down to the previous government (some is even down to the last Labour government), but also a lot due to world circumstances, every western nation is in the same boat. COVID, and the kind of response the public seemed to demand fucked the economy everywhere.

But if anyone expected them to balance out their lack of sense on identity politics with increased public funding etc they were seriously deluded.

De we really have to sound the same warning bells about Reform now? People didn't listen to us about Labour either.

I can't think why anyone would have voted for Labour and I can only think it's because I of protest votes against the Tories.

Both are two cheeks of the same arse.

Hopefully the mess Starmer is making will make people wake up and vote Reform or another Party that isn't Labour or Conservative as both have run the country into the ground.

I don't always see eye to eye with this writer on many things, but on this yes, I agree. Women here explained repeatedly, but were told they were all wrong. We're stuck with this bunch now for five years, and already things are worse for women than they were under a clapped out Tory govt. Which is saying one hell of a lot.

If the 25% council tax relief goes for single occupancy as threatened that is also going to directly hammer women and children. Many of those single occupiers will be single mothers.