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?

Sorts out the energy crisis?! What do you mean by this? That energy prices are brought down again so that we can carry on consuming as ever before, to hell with the consequences and the damage to the planet?

It's absolutely astonishing that the self-serving Tory électorate have voted in yet again someone who has zero green credentials and is intending to cut the green levy because, well because why rush into doing something to save the planet. We really are living in the age of stupid.

Absolutely this

? where there is a wage short fall, uc makes it up.
We were on tax credit for a while and it was exactly the correct amounts for us. I'e.kept food on the table and enough to pay for basics.

We are now middle to low earners why would we need more child care help?

I'm sure However more help could always be given to single parents.

In other cultures it's very common for family members to look after children, with working parents.
If there are no family member's then have baby boarding.

Blair inherited a lot of disastrous things from Thatcher, in relation to which it was too late to turn them around. I think with both parties we have had incompetence in the past, but with Tories we have had incompetence in a moral void which makes it somewhat worse.

I thought you were joking about baby boarding. Baby boarding is not a good idea. Have a look at some child development research.

I remember Truss coming up with some bonkers half baked and badly researched ideas about child care and nurseries, saying we should be like the French. There are problems with the French system but there is also no comparison from an economic point of view. It is heavily subsidised, and from 2.5 there are qualified teachers in charge. I cannot see the UK ever, ever investing in a similar way.

She’s as slippery as fuck.

Already fudged the energy plan announcement by saying it will not be a ministerial announcement so MPs don’t get ask questions about it.

Twat twat, utter twat.

Assuming that is irony since they don't even know what a woman is!

Of course they do. I’m really sick of people parroting this shit.

@Valeriekat yes it was irony.

Exactly. They know fine well what a woman is but they don't have the guts to say it. Pathetic.

I think you’ll find Starmer and Suella Braverman’s interpretations of the 2010 Equality Act are identical.