to be furious at my children being described like this

[spacepyramid]

Apparently they are 'ill-raised, ignorant and aggressive' because I am a single parent.

All I can say is I am extremely proud of them for overcoming my apparent short comings as a parent and achieving so much despite it.

Oh so BJ too? I can’t yet forgive Cameron for saying the riots were caused by young people ill raised by single mothers... funny that neither of them even considered where the hell are the dads.

Anyway, I guess if we were not that exhaustedbusy rising our kids single handedly, we would have more time and resources to fight such unfair stigma..

Blimey having to dig deep now

Gosh yes, digging so deep. Into articles he wrote. And had published.

Is that the best deflection you can muster?

... but for the time being, I will be forever grateful to Gordon Brown for tax credits, without them DS and I would have end up living rough as the Conservatives had no interest to properly enforce the payment of child maintenance.

@JeffreeStar by supporting the children of single parents to fulfil their potential a civilised society is more likely to reduce those depending on the state in future generations. It’s not the children’s fault.

I thought there was a reason Boris was like this, of course his parents divorce....

Do you really think that Ivy? Idiot

The dads get medals Idiotsindisguise if they do a bit of parenting now and then and pay a bit of maintenance. Heroes, they are.

I am not the Labour Party though, I'm a single parent who is furious about the way he is describing children.
You didn't dredge up the story, though.
I can't stand Johnson, but I couldn't stand him before this story. It makes no difference to his lead in the polls - if anything, it'll probably encourage a certain sort of person to vote for him.

Jeez... this happened 25 years ago. Absolutely scraping the barrel here. If we want to go down that route I guess we could reference Corbyn’s friendship with senior members of the IRA back in the 80’s/90’s when they were bombing innocent people, something he still refuses to condemn today.

That nonsense was debunked two years ago. Every thread someone trots it out and someone has to link to the C4 fact check. But I can’t be arsed to post it for the 20th time this week so look for it yourself.

Johnson wrote this himself. Signed his name to it. Had it published in a magazine.

Apparently only Corbyn is responsible for his past actions.

But this isn’t about Corbyn is it? It’s about Johnson and it’s indefensible, along with his comment likening money-hungry Blairites to Nigerians which also surfaced today.

@IdiotInDisguise also the savings bond scheme, did any of your children get to benefit from that? My son has a few thousand in his now, it has been both a motivation to save and something we discuss as a focal point for future achievement, university/travel etc

I hate him.

I'm a single parent and my child behaves a million times better than Boris. She's lovely, talented, funny, intelligent and doing really well at school.

How can anyone think it's ok to vote for this moron?

Always amazes me that its the single parents trying their hardest to raise their children that get all the abuse in this country you never see the abuse been aimed at the feckless parent who walked out and left them a single parent in the first place.... Oh wait if that was the case he'd also be talking about himself

Nope absent father is responsible for his child who I have provided for, sick to death of being stigmatised for his legging it from the Country because he knew he'd have to pay CM.
How dare anyone spout that utter bollocks about children or Mothers they don't know, who have been to hospital because of DV and have had to runaway and start again, how dare they stereotype people into a little box before even meeting people like me.
How dare Boris say that about women how bloody dare he when he's touting his dick around town

How dare Boris say that about women how bloody dare he when he's touting his dick around town

Round of applause.

YANBU he's vile and those comments are vile

its the single parents trying their hardest to raise their children that get all the abuse in this country hmm you never see the abuse been aimed at the feckless parent who walked out and left them a single parent in the first place.

It’s stuff like this that make you realise the full extent of misogyny in our society

Pretty rich coming from someone who has created two or is it three single mothers that we know of.

People sometimes say monumentally thick things when they're young , but then they grow up. I suspect he's never grown out of this opinion and he still thinks we're lowest of the low.

I’m really interested in the psychology of those who fall over themselves to deflect attention away from the substance of reports such as this (whether they relate to Bodge or Corbyn ), and immediately latch on to thoughts that airing such iniquities must be a simply a political ruse. And therefore the actual perfidy can be dismissed/ignored/disbelieved.

How can anybody living in our benighted ‘democracy’ be so keen on any one politician/party that they are willing to close their eye and ears to egregious behaviour, no matter how outrageous?

Surely, there is nobody/no party so brilliant, no dream ticket, that makes this cognitively possible?!

If you are one of those people, I’d be really interested to hear why you do it, and why you aren’t interested in hearing about the actual behaviour? And why hearing about such behaviour doesn’t contribute even a mite to a reconsideration of views.

After all, it can be the case that the facts are being aired to do down one side AND they can also actually be true at the same time. Why does the political motivation of the whistle-blower invalidate the perfidy?

We may be single Mother's but we do have a vote so I hope those who demean us remember that!

He's a hypocritical arse hole who needs to keep his willy in his pants.

I can't understand what anyone sees in this ambulant disaster area.

Is that the best deflection you can muster?

I've no desire to deflect, it's the exact same posters getting hysterical on every single pro labour thread, and they seem not to recognise they are shouting into an echo chamber.

The more rhe polls show that Corbyn is getting drubbed, the worse the desperation is getting, and the more of these threads that are appearing, and the same posters being all hysterical because their socialist dream is fading away.

It's the definition of madness,.🤣

Bluntness I’m not a Labour voter, and have no love for Corbyn, but am still interested in (yet more!) evidence that Boris is a turd of colossal proportions, who is not fit to polish the shoes of the prime minster, let alone actually fill that role.

Why wouldn’t anybody, regardless of their political leanings, be interested in the conduct of their PM? Surely it’s pertinent to all - especially just prior to an election?

.... we did far worse having two parents in our house than we ever would have with just one.
The above mentioned attitude comes from two parent households just as much as it does from single parent houses.

And as for his run down of the working class male, that's a term that my husband would fit into. He has precisely 0 of those qualities. In fact I suspect that the above description of man is closer to BJ the clown himself than a large percentage of working class men in this country.

I've no desire to deflect, it's the exact same posters getting hysterical on every single pro labour thread, and they seem not to recognise they are shouting into an echo chamber.

And yet you replied. @Bluntless100

Well if you aren't going to vote Labour (or whichever non-tory is most likely to win in your constituency) then you are actively welcoming in this toad back into 10 Downing Street. Our voting system sucks, but there it is.