Is mumsnet right wing?

[BrilloPadHairball]

There are so many benefits bashing threads on here I’m really starting to wonder. Do the majority of people posting on mumsnet lean heavily to the right?

Other countries also end up in situations people can't afford to access healthcare - but I guess that’s gold standard too?

Not in Scandinavia which offers the best healthcare in the world. And single rooms in hospitals.

Well, if we have money to burn to improve lives of people here are the top 10 ones that I would prioritise sorting

1. child poverty
2. child abuse
3. fuel poverty
4. domestic violence
5. rape crisis centres
6. mental health services
7. cancer care and research
8. accident and emergency
9. police services
10. education

Where are you getting the money from?

Ah you want massively high taxes and to lower the population? Not exactly a benefit to everyone is it?

It would be a benefit to the majority, wouldn’t it?

MMT'ers have done a damn fine job of buggering up the monetary system that CBDC is likely to take over soon anyway. What we're seeing now is what happens when constant money printing and borrowing converge. It ain't pretty.

@Devonbabs having lived there- high tax - yes it is - but high services- no national insurance in the way we do it , no council tax in the way we know it, cheap childcare, better and cheaper public transport, a lot more social housing, much better pensions - problem is a lot of this benefits younger people and families and therefore many older people here who are still paying tax wouldn't like it. Yes it has a much smaller population but Germany and France don't - and lots of this still applies to them too. It's how we do things here that is blowing up in our faces, low wages, low tax, high housing costs (so top ups needed , or lots of population would be homeless) - lower tax but then low quality services for that tax

I think that is clear

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/mixed-sex-wards-breach-nhs-streeting-b2534608.html

Wards are meant to be single sex. The Conservatives are breaching this due to lack of resource.

I thought we were discussing how we could improve things for women by making life better for everyone. Definitely in good faith

Yes. I'd prioritise all of these over trans issues too.

I'd get the money by reprioritising e.g. scrapping Rwanda, closing tax loopholes, getting rid of the triple lock (maybe using an average instead).

I'd also reprivatise things like water and rail so the tax payer isn't constantly cleaning up the private sectors lack of investment.

This is why I'm not a "single issue" voter.

Edited: meant to quote devonbabs

I don’t recognise posts that go on about ‘trans issues’

The focus is on the wrong sex. Men can sort out their own sex class.

As for funding things it doesn’t have to take much money to provide single sex spaces for women

Couldn’t agree more. Hopefully we’ll be seeing that happen with a change of government.

Child poverty has nothing to do with "womens sex based rights".
I'd far rather vote for a party with a plan to take children out of poverty than one focussed on "womens sex based rights". But its all a moot point as the only party with any half way decent plan on either thing is Labour.

No, we have a very different economy tp Scandinavia. Even if we did up taxes there are many more things that would benefit a wider range of people than single roomed prisons and hospitals (see my list as an example).

Whilst I generally agree with your posts I am going to have to back @Blossomtoes on this
New hospital in Liverpool all single rooms for example
It is the intention that all new hospitals will be single occupancy with en-suites Infection control, privacy etc sited as positives. Obviously caring for less people and nurse patient ratio could be a problem but yet to be realised as it’s all a new thought here.

The Labour Party doesn’t support woman's rights.
Quite the contrary.

Whats Labours half way decent plan for eradicating childhood poverty.
Im not aware they have one

A new hospital doesn’t resolve the issue with all the ones we have already

Although I appreciate the insight and

Agree with you here

No absolutely I agree
Its the same issue with the new reg that new buildings must now have single sex toilets plus unisex. None of that solves the existing buildings.

Just noting that the pp comments on new hospitals are correct.

The Labour Party clearly supports women's rights

https://labour.org.uk/updates/press-releases/anneliese-dodds-speech-at-labour-party-conference/

https://www.emilythornberry.com/shadow-attorney-general/2023/10/10/making-the-law-work-for-women-my-labour-conference-speech-2023/

Child poverty is more difficult because its a symptom of so many broken things in the UK. I'm waiting for specifics in their manifesto but they at least say stuff about it.

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/jon-ashworth-labour-beat-child-poverty-benefit-cap-row-2589837

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/keir-starmer-vows-end-child-110547414.html

Conservatives have nada.

This is interesting

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/14/british-children-poverty-tories-gordon-brown

Let's see what Hunt's response is.

Well thanks for the deletion for my pointing out the truth. Honestly.

The LP rattle on about women's rights but their idea of what a woman is is not the same as mine unfortunately. So their words are meaningless.

I have no idea what you’re talking about. I don’t report.