To not be impressed that Liz Truss is our Prime Minister

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I keep reading tweets from Tory MPs waxing lyrical about how great and progressive it is that we have our third female Tory PM and how amazing it is, considering Labour hasn’t even had a female leader of their party.

As a woman I am not excited to see Liz Truss as Prime Minister. She is not progressive and definitely is not an advocate for women’s rights (she wants to give tax cuts to stay at home mothers FFS, but is ignoring the cost of childcare crisis forcing so many women out of work)! I don’t see Liz Truss as an inspiration or an allie, I see her as a puppet of the patriarchy.

Hopefully one day we will have a female PM who will truly fight for women’s equality and rights and will break down the walls the patriarchy have built up! Please tell me I’m not the only one who feels like this?

Hopefully she will, but there's an awful lot else wrong with the country after 12 years of these clowns. The NHS is on its knees, crime is through the roof after they cut police numbers to the bone, large scale strikes everywhere, briefings that Truss will 'put a bonfire on worker's rights', Brexit is a complete shitshow and leveling up was just another slogan.

This.

@goingonasummerholiday how about making it more affordable for women to go back to work once they have children? The amount of women I have known who have had to give up their career because they can't afford childcare! Like it or not, it normally always falls to the woman to give up their career (obviously not in every instance)! If Truss was to do anything good, she would fund childcare properly so women who wanted to continue to work hard in their chosen field could do so and so they wouldn't be at a financial disadvantage! Surely tax cuts for women who work would be more empowering?

@Pyewhacket this century! If you think the patriarchy don't pull the strings, I'm not sure what country you live in! If the cost of childcare affected men's careers and prospects as much as it does women we'd have a free crèche in every business! Women are a long way from being seen as equal in the U.K.

How is giving tax cuts to stay at home women against womens rights?

How’s that work? If you don’t work you don’t pay tax.

@Blossomtoes Concession on the man’s wage like the old married man’s stamp, I think

This is so true! She's a chameleon. She changes her colours to suit her agenda. First Lib Dem then walked the floor... Next, Remainer, then walked the floor....As a life-long Conservative, I am not happy about this result...

OK, transfer of the non working partner’s tax allowance perhaps? That makes sense. It’s a bit of a slap in the face for working women though.

I can't get excited about a 3rd female PM when 2 of them didn't compete at a General Election. I know the theory is we elect a party and not a person, but that's not what we actually do.

So what if you are a singleton? How would that benefit people who are in a household with one wage, not two?

@Blossomtoes exactly!!

@BasilParsley it wouldn't sadly

Check your history. Both of the previous female PMs won elections.

@goingonasummerholiday
Tax cuts for sahms but no help at all for families or single female parents who work and face exorbitant childcare fees is not a policy that can be labeled progressive. It is telling the public that women are:
Choosing to work as opposed to needing to work, and
Therefore they have made their beds and should lie in them.

It's a policy that appeals to a deep vein of conservatism and it's an indication of the drift of public discourse wrt women.

Mrs Thatcher and Mrs May both won elections
Mrs T won three.

You are not being unreasonable. It am dreading the next couple.of years

Women tend to get elected most often when the shit is about to hit the fan (May, Thatcher). Men tend to want to shift the blame

I'm dressing it all too
Things are going to be tough

Dreading

M and T features heavily with these three ladies
Margaret Thatcher
Theresa May
Mary Truss ( her real name )
It's spooky

@the80sweregreat MT, Empty? Hmm. What are they telling us about their promises?

It's just odd that those two letters out of 26 feature so heavily.

MumsneT, it's a conspiracy!

(Since we're grasping at straws here)

I think it’s hilarious 😂😂😂

I see her as a puppet of the ERG.

That's just as bad