AIBU to wonder if a stay-at-home mum could become an MP?

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Do you think a degree educated, middle class 30 year old SAHM without any notable work history would ever have a chance at becoming a local councillor or MP? I feel like most MPs have either a local council or highly skilled professional background (law, finance etc). I’ve googled and I can’t find a single MP who has a SAHM background.

Oh okay. Yes I do think people have heard of him unless they’ve been living under a rock. Presume you’d be running for Reform.

I don’t see how you can argue that a two parent mum/dad family isn’t the ideal family set up?

Do you agree with him about gay people needing to be celibate?

Or that women should marry young, ideally around college age?

Do you oppose gay couples raising children? I know Kirk did but you said you agreed with 'a lot' (not 'all') of his views.

So children and teens without resources are supposed to do that? Or spend their lives being left behind or struggling and then 'take responsibility' when they're adults?

It's bordering on hilarious that your policy to allow people to be SAHPs (although let's be honest, you mean women, so, mums) but you don't actually care about the children. You just care about creating a weird financial reward system for the privileged.

The problem with your beliefs and policies is that when you pull away the window dressing, they boil down to a form of eugenics. They strip people of their humanity. Fuck that.

I think this thread might be a wind up!

Telling people they should get married!!

Which do you agree with? Are you anti abortion for example?

No I don’t agree with him about being gay. I don’t think there’s any issue with being gay.

I do think that there are benefits to being in a comitted relationship from about mid 20s age. I can’t imagine dating past mid 30s. But this is all just personal opinion, I don’t think it’s a place for any government involvement.

YANBU- go for it, I’d vote for you.

Yeah, but if you didn't hear it on GB news it can't be real.

Oh, a wind up. I fell for it.
Yes, most of us have " come across" Charlie Kirk.

This level of ignorance is exactly the problem. You are talking a lot but you actually have no idea what you're talking about and in any debate it will be clear you don't even know the facts behind the opinions you have. You'd be torn apart instantly. If you want to go into politics, you need to know the research, data and statistics behind what you are saying back to front and inside out and be ready to answer questions on it at a moment's notice. If you get a number muddled up or fudge the answer, you'll be immediately discredited and mocked. You have an additional challenge in that most of the facts directly contradict your opinions. I also wonder, since the stats you're talking about don't say what you think they say, whether you have the ability to understand data.

I’m undecided. I do think the ideal environment for a child is a mum/dad. But I think being in a loving family with gay parents is much better than being raised in care etc.

I do have to admit that I’m uncomfortable with gay couples using a surrogate.

I’m sorry but I don’t think you’re MP material. Why don’t you set up a meeting with your actual MP and discuss your desire for a policy change re SAHMs? As you admit, you don’t have much work or life experience and you don’t have any answers of how any of this would work. You want a policy to reflect your position, and it’s actually somebody else’s job to do that (listen to you, represent your interests and try to effect change).

Except you do want government involvement because you're only giving money to those who are married with children.

In theory I am. I do agree that life begins at conception. But then I think of babies being born to some parents and think the baby is probably better off not being in this world with them. It’s a tough one.

Well it's only gay men, and some at that, who do that.

I don't think anyone should be allowed to use paid surrogates anyway, personally.

I wouldn’t care about your professional background or lack therof. I would care about what your whole policy platform was, and what experience you had in your community. For example, I’d be asking… Have you volunteered with local toddler groups and playgroups, have you volunteered for community organisations, sat as a community councillor. What are your views apart from tax breaks for SAHPs? What would you do about the costs of an ageing population and a decreasing working age population? How would you support people with disabilities into work - what is your position on employee rights eg. to reasonable adjustments to facilitate this? What costs could this incur for employers and what would you do to support them? How would you manage public services, especially the NHS, what are your views on shifting the balance of investment to prevention versus intervention - which is probably one of the biggest political questions of the next decade. What would your views be regarding foreign policy? You want to reduce immigration - does this include working at source to mitigate the impact of oppressive regimes, conflict and climate change to reduce numbers of displaced people? How would you replace the public sector jobs currently undertaken by immigrants - are you proposing social care roles be undertaken by people with mental health conditions such as anxiety who are currently deemed too ill to work - are these the people who would take on carer roles vacated by immigrants? What about your views on education, climate change, energy security, pollution, flood management, agriculture, fisheries? What are your views on pensions, the elderly, the loneliness epidemic, drug and alcohol treatment, crime and justice? What are your views on local versus national decision-making, the constitution, local taxation/other forms of taxation. The list goes on.

Not literally looking for answers to any of the above BTW - but these are what I’d care about - not your paid work experience. Realistically I think most people would just vote depending on whether or not the party next to your name was the one they liked anyway 🤷‍♀️.

ME/CFS
POTS
EDS and other connective tissue disorders
Diabetes
Asthma
Migraine
obesity
IBS
Drug/alcohol addiction

Do you really think that everyone interested in politics, or every local councillor knows what physical conditions are comorbid with ADHD?!

What abortion law do you support? 24 weeks? Lower, as a lot of Euro countries have?

I'm assuming you're not hoping for an Alabama style ban?

Oh my god another one I fell for that's not real! What is wrong with me? What a waste of time and commitment.

No, none of us have ever heard of Charlie Kirk. Never.

Me neither.

Good post!

Define 'family values'