Being a single mum should not be acceptable..

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How can a person running to be Mayor of London seriously do so with views like this?!

metro.co.uk/2018/10/08/single-mums-should-not-be-acceptable-says-tory-mayor-of-london-candidate-8017333/

I love having single motherhood mansplained to me. Oh wait no.

Also, if he feels so strongly about men who don’t step up, why isn’t he having a pop at them?

Women shouldn't have to try to force men to step up.
If a man won't parent, act like an adult in the house or be a good partner then women have every right to end the relationship.

Also, if he feels so strongly about men who don’t step up, why isn’t he having a pop at them?

Exactly.

Because it’s always the way. A man does something shitty so people look for the nearest woman to blame for it.

Fuck off, Shaun. There's a good lad.

A man does something shitty so people look for the nearest woman to blame for it

Oh I know, I was just refuting what a PP said about him not berating single mothers and interpreting it as him saying men should be stepping up because women should make them

I can't read it, I know his angle already: he's appealing to angry T*s who want women barefoot, pregnant and in front of the kitchen sink. Those who cannot stand the idea that women are people as much as men. Those who actually hate women having any independence or ability to say, no I'm not taking this shit just to have a man in my life and the life of their children. They truly want to take us back to the 50s, cos wasn't life so fucking great for women and children back then? My advice? Never fuck a T** and never vote for one either.

Wow. Just wow.

His comments about muslim/hindi [sic] festivals are also beyond belief.

What a tosser!

Agree that he has serious misgonist attitude.

A couple of my class mates, in the mid 80’s, got pregnant to get a flat. So yes it does happen sometimes, but blaming girls and women for government policy and the behaviour of men is outrageous as well as wrong.

"women are people as much as men"
I don't think that's a given any more

I'm surprised someone like him holds these sort of views and is so vociferous about it.

He is allowed to talk about his inner city experiences growing up. You know being a man, its doesn't mean he cant have a voice.

However I guess no one actually read the article:

It is not known whether the quotes are taken directly from Mr Bailey.

What a tosser, I'm single Mother and he's an insulting prick

Well, he's a twat.
I'm a single mother because living with an alcoholic was a lot more damaging to my DDs than not living with an alcoholic. And since only an alcoholic can decide to stop being an alcoholic, kicking him out was really the only power I had in that situation.

I'm a single Mother because ex beat me and when he broke my arm I grabbed dd and finally ran, praps I should have stayed married and got myself murdered eh

What a loser. Many single mums are doing a great job at parenting, working careers etc

I'm a single mum. I don't need this man to explain what's wrong with me. I pay my mortgage Shaun, I have never asked for a council flat. Why doesn't he pick on the fathers?

very few single mothers start off that way (& I am not including the actual conception bit here!) a vast majority previously had dp/dh who left them or who because of difficulties with the relationship they had to leave or their partners died. It is a sweeping generalization to state that single mothers are young women who deliberately become pregnant to get housing - very few do...what is more concerning to me is the number of girls who are in care who become pregnant & in their case it is probable that they are trying to form a idealized version family which they never have had.

I really hate it when women take care of their responsibilities despite the other person who made the children doing nothing to contribute towards their children financially, emotionally or practically.

What an ill informed man Shaun Bailey is.

Typical stereotypical single Mother bashing

Arse

The answer to male problem behaviour /gangs is for the girls to change?! Is there no end to this utter utter nonsense and women blaming?

I was mid 30s and owned my own home without a mortgage when I became a single mum. I'm self-sufficient, well-educated and I've never been a day out of work.

How does my lack of a man change my ability to look after my child exactly? My child is happy, healthy, and at the top of her class in a good school with great friends.

I could never live with a man, they're usually childish and selfish. Plus I'm asexual. Should asexuals not have children?

He’s right.

If you are young and your education has not delivered the skills you need and you are female, the best thing you can do is have a child.

I’m being honest. Don’t flame me.

Otherwise, you have to work crap jobs on zero hour contracts for minimum wage, struggle to make ends meet, house shares and lonely and struggle struggle struggle.

That’s what we need to change.

An awful lot of single Mums didn't become Parents while single but are divorced from violent husbands and the stereotyping is insulting

EVEN IF women get pregnant to get council housing then that's a sad indictment of the utterly woeful provision of social housing in this country, not of the women themselves.