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.

I’ll bet you’ve got more experience of real life than many of the characters that float through private education, a PPE degree, a spell as a SPAD then straight on to being an MP. I’m constantly astonished at how little real world experience so many of our MPs have had. The last Tory govt was particularly bad.

But I’d agree, it would be good to expand your horizons a bit by doing volunteering in your local community.

That will mean lots of boys brought up to think that women are just there to run the home and look after them.

No thanks. Mine were brought up to know that both parents take it in turns to stay home when they’re ill, both parents bring home the money, dad is a great cook and that mum is a department head.

There is no tax scandal. She referred herself to get definitive answer to a very complex situation ( providing for her severely disabled son by ensuring he has a home.) It may well be that she owes nothing.

The woman is fairly big on Only Fans too.

Or try 2 people earning £60k Vs a single parent earning £120k... The couple get free government childcare and the single parent doesn't. Imagine that.

I'm torn. One the one hand, I guess that makes sense. People who are disengaged from the discourse do make up the majority of reform's voting base. On the other, you're already publicly underestimating and talking down to your potential voters.

Does your DH (or DP, you lack consistency) not engage with any sources of information at all? I'd have thought it was pretty much impossible to not know who Charlie Kirk is.

I wouldn't vote for you specifically, given our values are entirely unaligned, but I would in principle vote for a SAHM who:

• had done something impressive previously
• had a track record of successful local / national campaigns and influence (volunteer work absolutely fine)
• had well-reasoned policies demonstrating a clear understanding of how the world works

Agree with those saying aim for council seat first, before thinking about becoming an MP. See whether the rough and tumble of political life is for you.

Another thought: given that you are pretty single-issue focused, why not just set up and run a campaign on that issue?

Do you object to this? Sex workers and men's right to use them are an integral historical part of the traditional value system you are supporting.

Totally your opinion.

absolutely zero evidence that there would be fewer children and adults with mental health issues and ‘stronger family values’ if women didn’t go back to work after maternity leave

By DP I meant my parents.

I think she sounds more like a Green. Always happy to spend other peoples money until it runs out

Those two sentences contradict each other.

Having a SAHP is no guarantee of stronger family values. One friend did indeed make it work - but she did some consultancy so was earning. The other family I know with a SAHP ended in divorce- huge resentment on one side.

I don’t object to it - I think people can do what they like. But I don’t think porn consumption is good for society.

No it doesn’t. I wouldn’t ban abortion as even though I wouldn’t have one myself, I wouldn’t ban it for others.

I would reduce the term though as I think 24 weeks is too high. Babies survive being born at that gestation these days.

Can you tell me how many abortions occur after 12 weeks and what the primary causes are of abortions at any stage of pregnancy?

Can you tell me about the stages of fetal development, why 12 weeks is a milestone and what fetal abnormalities can and cannot be detected until a later stage and would result in the baby being stillborn or incompatible with life?

So you’d force women to carry children they couldn’t afford to keep, AND penalise them financially for doing so if they couldn’t then be nice wholesome SAHMs like you? How is that going to improve outcomes for children in this country?

You really don’t know much at all about social policy, the real world or anything beyond what gossip you get from the hairdresser.

They do contradict each other. By reducing the term limit, you are imposing your beliefs that "24 weeks is too high".

No I can’t. But ok, yes I would be ok with a higher limit for medical reasons.

Ultimately I do think people should take better precautions when having sex then. Or, shock horror, even abstain if they’re that against pregnancy.

You are kidding, aren’t you? His murder was on rolling news for days.

The arrogance to think you’re in a special club! The Reform disdain for ‘ordinary’ people clearly dwells in you.

As a woman who has been a single parent for most of my children’s lives, and has worked full,time throughout. I’d never vote for a SAHM whatever party they represented. I’m also the mother of two young women in their 20’s who have both decided they don’t want children - so would never vote for anyone who would make it a policy to treat them like second class citizens (which is what all this traditional values does to childfree women). I would also never vote for someone who is mostly about a single issue because it indicates a total lack of rounded thought and understanding of the world - which of course you don’t have because your world is very small and obviously consists of home and children. Though crack on with reform as they obviously don’t care about experience or intellect.

No, I’m not. I don’t think many people who don’t spend a lot of time online would know who he is in the UK!

I thought working mothers were supposed to be seen as good role models for children and lead to children being more successful, how does that fit your narrative?

I would think most stay at home mums and only that for a few years and work both before and after that, but your narrative seems to you are one or the other

Once again, you are basing a policy off a thought you thunked, and not actually off any evidence or data...because you don't know it.

If you seriously want to do something beneficial for the country, I'd suggest you start by either enrolling on a course in politics, sociology or policy, or embarking on some committed self-study using reliable sources and fact-checking tools from both sides of the political debate (hint: GB News and the Daily Mail aren't reliable sources) so you have some idea of the history and impact of these issues over time, get up to date with current affairs and get into the world and start interacting with people not in your bubble.

I'd be surprised if, having fully educated yourself on the actual truths behind your ideas, you didn't change your mind. There's a reason why Reform mostly gets votes off people with a low level of education.