Westministenders: One for the Women

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Just remember that women are more likely to be worried about Brexit.

Their women's and workers rights are more at risk from departure from the EU, the ECJ and potentially the EHCR.
They are more likely to be worried as EU citizens in the UK due to taking time to have and raise families.
They are more likely to have been badly affected by austerity and an economic downturn will hit them first.
If they are leavers they are more likely to have changed their minds.
They are less likely to be MPs so have less representation.
They are more likely to be feeling politically unrepresented by any party and unsure of who they will vote for at the next election.
They are more likely to get abuse for expressing a political opinion. Many report having been subjected to sexual harassment from political colleagues.
They are more likely to be the target of abuse on social media.
They are earn less than their political colleagues, they earn less than their media colleagues, they earn less than their business colleagues. They are less likely to be in powerful lobby groups.

Then there's #metoo

And to cap it off women's groups are finding it hard to get their voice heard, and are frequently being labelled as hysterical or bigoted for merely wanting to discuss things and be reassured that their fears are acknowledged. They are frequently dismissed as liars or over sensitive.

This is 2018.

It doesn't feel progressive. It doesn't look equal.

Brexit has more of an impact on women.

*Olivia
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The author says....This should enable people to share my post without cut and pasting.

www.facebook.com/ThanksBrexit/posts/610729005970425

It mkaes me wish I was on social media so I had somewhere to share it. Very frightening when put like that. It will only entrench things further for those for whom Brexit is a religion... but for the 'don't knows' or the leavers who voted to give Cameron a bloody nose etc it could make all the difference.

WRT to free trade deals - in order for things to not change significantly as of March 2019, we have to negotiate 700 - where negotiations can last anywhere between 7 and 20 years?
So that's between 4900 and 14000 years worth of negotiating to be done in 12 months? All concurrently. On top of everything else. Right - yeah - OK. Leave voters knew what they were voting for and understood the ramifications of their vote

Thanks, lonely. I've copied that list and emailed it to my (conservative) MP asking him to stand up and be counted, or his government will go down in history as having wrecked the UK.
Anyone else fancy doing this?

Just caught a small part of news saying Defence spending is likely to be increased. TBF, with Johnson as Foreign Secretary we may need it...

Good idea Clarissa I'll do the same!

Gibraltar- that’s got to pop over the parapet soon!

It's funny how we never hear about the Will of the People when it comes to Gibraltar, isn't it? With something like 96% wishing to stay in the EU, if that wasn't a convincing mandate, what was?

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Dhs alma mater
I wish I could say I'm surprised 😡😔

Thanks so much, I've nicked that list as well.

It was about time my MP heard from me again...

And another...

The long list of failing businesses needs Cafe Rouge and Bella Italia adding on. They just posted a sharp increase in losses- the losses to May 2017 increased 18% to £60m.

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Waves to borntobequiet

That is a good idea Clarissa I think I'll do the same. His reply won't be worth reading though - and will do no good to my blood pressure. He will just claim he believes in carrying out the will of his constituents.

Amazing list lonelyplanetmum 👍

Can't take the credit Chickentikka . I did post my own upthread but this one has more detail. Although mine has more detail on the EU hubs being set up elsewhere.

Mine is as follows if people want to merge the two when pestering MPs.

Waitrose and John Lewis profits down 77 %
Store closures
M and S
New Look

Carillion
150 jobs from Merck.
Jaeger
East clothing
Travis Perkins
Monarch
Shoe City
Rivington pink wafer biscuits
Southern salads
Lowcostholidays,
Hewden
Maplin
Toy R Us
Feather & Black
Multiyork

Reductions
Oliver Bonas
Jamie Oliver
Prezzo
Chimichanga

Moves or reductions

Hiscox
Goldman Sachs
jP Morgan
Standard chartered
UBS

Not forgetting moves of EU hubs at

•Standard Life Aberdeen, to Dublin.

•Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. to Frankfurt

Daiwa Securities Group To Frankfurt

•Insurer Admiral Group to Spain

•T Rowe etc to Luxembourg’s f

•Barclays EU headquarters to Dublin.

•JPMorgan chase to Dublin

•Bank of America to Dublin.

•Lloyd’s of London to Brussels

•LONDON - Mizuho, one of Japan's "Big Four" banks,to Frankfurt

•Travelers Europe to Dublin

•US insurer AIG to Luxembourg

•Citigroup Inc to Frankfurt

•Frankfurt also Standard Chartered

•Deutsche Bank trading and investment-banking assets from London Frankfurt.

•Nomura Holdings Inc -Frankfurt

•EMA to Amsterdam

•Paris -European Banking Authority

Must admit the 77% fall in profits for JL shocked me

Oh forgot Structural steelwork maker Severfield blamed Brexit uncertainties for job cuts in Bolton. A third of the workforce is being laid off.

Of course online shopping has nothing to do with it. John Lewis suffering too. Oh and consumers not spending so much either would have nothing to do with retail side failing. Oh and toysrus have gone too. Along with BHS and M and S downsizing, oh the list is endless. Soon won't need a high street.

Must admit the 77% fall in profits for JL shocked me

Not me (or DW). We stopped looking in there years ago as they never had what we had gone in looking for (referenced on another thread) a grapefruit knife being the last straw.

Also the quality of the duvet covers (we saw) was pretty poor. Maybe I'm a bit hoity toity as thanks to my DMs lifes hobbies of sewing, knitting and fashion

Sorry to come back to A50.

Right so as some of you might know there's a legal challenge which claims that A50 has not been properly triggered. A50(1) in particular states that a member state has to fulfil its constitutional requirements. The claimant believes that the UK has not fulfilled its constitutional requirements.

Apparently it is now common ground that no decision from Parliament has been taken. Defendant claims such a decision was not necessary.

What????

This is getting weird.

I forgot bank branches closing g and in our town they even shut the main post office and put a little one in M and S. Must be those pesky silver surfers who use online banking etc.

I forgot bank branches closing g and in our town they even shut the main post office and put a little one in M and S.

That suggests a degree of confidence I wouldn't have felt ...

They don't need bank branches when more and more people using online banking, online shopping, online hunting for trades, online this that and the other, even some shops refusing cash.

Apparently it is now common ground that no decision from Parliament has been taken. Defendant claims such a decision was not necessary.

What, we forgot to do it properly? Well, never mind, we don't need to anyway (we're special).

Must be those pesky silver surfers who use online banking etc.

We haven't had to use a "bank" for years. The last time was when one of our financial services suppliers "helpfully" sent a cheque rather than just doing a transfer (which they could have done). After the ear bashing I gave them, they won't be doing that again.

It was a maximum PITA - the out of hours machine wasn't taking cheques on the 3 occasions I went out of my way to try. A long debate on the phone revealed that if posted and lost, it would need to be re-posted (having a photograph wasn't enough).

In the end we had to make a special journey to go to a branch.

I hate cheques.

Even DWs mobile hairdresser takes a bank transfer - prefers it to cash.

What, we forgot to do it properly? Well, never mind, we don't need to anyway (we're special).

Like one G. Brown "forgetting" to put VAT on the olympics bill

Of course online shopping has nothing to do with it.

Agreed it has very little to do with it in most cases.
Many of the businesses going offered on line shopping too.

Also on line shopping has been around for a long time. However these closures and losses have only happened since the referendum and the fall in the pound.