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that the Tory Party are a bunch of misogynistic bastards?

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ParrotTulip · 08/10/2012 20:41

The tories don't even seem to bother to don the sheep's clothing any more. It's seems to be a systematic co-ordinated attack on equality, from the Health minister'sview on abortion to George Osborne's plans to make employees sign away someof their maternity and flexible working rights if they want a job. Scary, scary times.

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ATourchOfInsanity · 08/10/2012 22:27

What I can't get my head around is how their wives can deal with it all. They at least must have some empathy/sympathy with women? I don't buy that they are all just so rich nothing affects them. Morally they would have to almost become the worst kind of man to get any logic out of these policies or future policies.

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ParrotTulip · 08/10/2012 22:27

That's the scary thing, there's no credible opposition

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Lilithmoon · 08/10/2012 22:29

You can look for transport to the march on the 20th of October here:

economy falseeconomy.org.uk/travel/uk/all/t1

It is vital that this event is well attended.

The bastards in government do not give a shiny shit about us :(

Lilithmoon · 08/10/2012 22:37

I have just had a look at the coaches and there are many very cheap and free places available.

LineRunner · 08/10/2012 22:40

They'll have minders out.

For fuck's sake, Gideon, it's the Mumsnet coach. Run.

monkeysbignuts · 08/10/2012 22:44

shellyboobs I will be voting labour and I am not sniffing glue!

LineRunner · 08/10/2012 22:46

I'm thinking of voting Labour.

ATourchOfInsanity · 08/10/2012 22:50

WOW. Just read in Torygraph:
?David Cameron has said that the idea of giving prisoners the vote makes him physically sick. Parliament has voted to express its sympathy for that perspective.?

LineRunner · 08/10/2012 22:51

God he's like that Walliams-woman on Little Britain.

monkeysbignuts · 08/10/2012 23:03

haha linerunner the one who pukes at poor, immigrants & gay people etc. Yeah he is a snob, I am not surprised though.

LineRunner · 08/10/2012 23:36

Maggie, that's her name. Davod 'Maggie' Cameron has a certain ring to it.

Levantine · 09/10/2012 01:25

Shelley If they couldn't form a majority in 2010 what makes you think they will be able to form one in 2015? Have they got more popular, or less so?

caramelwaffle · 09/10/2012 01:35

Keeping this bumped because when I heard about having people sign away employee rights on the radio today, I was shocked and nowt' much this serious shocks me these days.

People piss on The Unions (quote unquote) these days but they have done a lot for working people over the past hundred or so years: hard won Rights signed away for a paper promise of nothingness.

bochead · 09/10/2012 01:40

The proposal to charge single parents for the services of the CSA clarified their position as the plight of women & children languishing in poverty for me. Sadly I didn't then realise what a sliver thin edge of the wedge it was at that point.

Do they not realise that "little women" comprise over 50% of the population + we have caring responsibilities for a significant proportion of the male population too (children, elderly, sick + disabled).

caramelwaffle · 09/10/2012 01:40

Signing away the right to claim unfair dismissal - that'll be just great Hmm if you happen to be female or an ethnic minority or disabled - sometimes simply "not desirable" to have employed - according to some.

caramelwaffle · 09/10/2012 01:44

Yes bochead Exactly re: Csa

I read recently that over 50% of single people who purchase property in this country are female.

Females have purchasing, and voting power.

CommunistMoon · 09/10/2012 01:47

2015, 2015, 2015, 2015, 2015, 2015, 2015, 2015, 2015, 2015 (repeat until bored)

NewNames · 09/10/2012 01:49

2015: Lib Lab coalition?

CommunistMoon · 09/10/2012 01:51

A pact would be sufficient.

Leena49 · 09/10/2012 06:12

I never voted for them. Anyone who did was bloody naive. I'm angry at those people who voted for them for being so politically naive. It makes me so mad. Look at them. They are public school freaks.

PeahenTailFeathers · 09/10/2012 07:01

wannabe what Linerunner said is definitely true. I sent an e-mail to Chris Grayling and wrote about it on here. I got a reply asking me to post his answer on Mumsnet as well, so I did (still have the email).

apostropheuse · 09/10/2012 07:25

It's all rather deja vu to me. Unfortunately I'm old enough to remember their last regime. I've never voted for them in my life, nor would I - just like the vast majority of Scottish people.

We probably wouldn't have devolution today if it hadn't been for the fact that people here got so disgusted by having never voted the tories in, but being landed with their policies. They're doing rather a good job of encouraging Scottish Independence at the moment actually. (Not that I'm saying I'm particularly pro-independence - undecided on that one!).

pumpkinsweetie · 09/10/2012 07:33

Me too Leena, obviously most of the population fell for the lies they gave to get elected.
Scary times indeed for most, of course except extremely rich people.
Steal from the poor, give to the rich party.

pumpkinsweetie · 09/10/2012 07:34

Lets not forget Maggie the milk snatcher and house snatcher.
Because of her there is no affordable rental places, it all started before i was born and its now happening again!

poppy283 · 09/10/2012 07:41

I'd vote labour if that vote would be worth anything, here in the se it's Tories or lib dems, spot the difference!