Live webchat about women and work with Maria Miller, Culture Secretary and Minister for Women and Equalities, TODAY, Thursday 22 November, 1pm to 2pm

[FrancesMumsnet]

Hello, we're very pleased to announce that Maria Miller, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, and Minister for Women and Equalities will be joining us for a live webchat on Thursday 22 Nov between 1pm and 2pm.

Maria has been the MP for Basingstoke since 2005 and has previously held shadow education and family briefs. Before entering Parliament, Maria worked in advertising. She is married with three children.

This is Maria's second Mumsnet webchat.

Maria is keen to hear your thoughts on how to get more women into work, with a particular focus on getting the right childcare in place for women. She also wants to hear your thoughts on how the government can make workplaces more equal environments, where women can better realise their potential.

Do join us for the webchat. As ever, if you can't make it, please post up your advance questions here.

Thanks,

MNHQ

She literally didn't have a clue about what some of the questions were getting at.

Tragic

One hour is definitely not enough for many of these web chats.

I saw a her on Question Time a while ago, she was crap and vacuous then too.

'I saw her', no idea why there's an extra 'a'

I was disappointed to see I'd missed the web chat, as I wanted to ask why childcare costs aren't tax-deductible if you're self-employed. But I didn't miss anything, did I?

Maria, love, that was a complete waste of typing. I really hope it was one of your SPADs on the keyboard, copying and pasting from an old election pamphlet, while you were sat back fingering a box of chocolates like Matt Lucas's Barbara Cartland.

Incidentally, MNHQ did Maria come in by herself or does she have advisers to help her with answers or compose replies? Because if this is the best Maria and the cream of CCHQ can do, we really are fucked.

(And I was another one who - almost, almost - voted Dave at the last GE... That female vote is really going to flood back in for you, isn't it?)

Just remember.

This country's Minister for Women agrees with Xenia.

"Just remember.

This country's Minister for Women agrees with Xenia."

Maybe if she does come back, we could hunt down Gabby Loggon and she could agree with him too.

They could form a People's Panel for Women.

Maybe the ConDems are planning to reverse the Representation of the People Act before the next election.
It's the only possible explanation I can think of for why they're so uninterested in the female vote.

you know what xenia opinion is as valid as anyone else.whats all the o'er about
would you refer if it were one of your mates from the youse all luffly quiche
you look v lame and puerile sniggering about a named poster

dont recall who she was
but for me spirit of mn is all oinion valid
mn was previously cliquey and had its names everyone sucked their arse,no need go back to that or to set anyone up as a mn pantomime villain

I can barely wait for Miller's response to Leveson.

Just had a chance to look at her responses.
MNHQ, was there actually any point in asking questions beforehand?
She certainly harped on about the quarter of a million more women back in work a lot but wasn't sufficiently rehearsed in how that actually affects women practically, with childcare for example.
She is a woman, right?
Maybe she is Xenia?

oh behave
you dont like a politicians answer, and its o'er mn

Miller has no culture experience at all. She's never bothered to attend any culture votes and openly admitted to a lack of interest in the subject.

I love that when asked about regional theatre she says how delighted she is to be going off to the fucking donmar in London, which isn't even a publicly funded theatre.

And so rude about the arts council. She patently has no idea at all.

She didn't address how women are facing the brunt of the job losses in local government, either.

After I read the webchat, I thought I'd rather have anyone of the MN posters here as Secretary of State for 'fillies', as Dave no doubt calls us. At least we did our research, knew our facts and could give a straight answer.

Maria Miller. The Cabinet's very own Terri Coverley.

And Leveson, yeah. Can't wait. How Jeremy Hunt got promoted after that appearance beggars bloody belief. They must think we are idiots.

I think we should get her back and hook her up to a small charge of electricity, a bit like im a sleb, linked to a specially adapted MN app where we all get the chance to send a small electric shock via the power of MN every time she types a fucking pointless, patronising bullshit response to serious questions. She's the fucking minister for Women and thinks its acceptable to speak to posters like that?

Do you think she was really in the MNHQ office?

I think we need Justine or someone who was there to post some photos to prove she was actually there. It really is appalling how 'she' handled this 'web chat'.

speak to posters like what?what level of deference and gushing did you expect
naturally she will some on,fight her corner stick to party line.as politicians do
dont necessarily agree with her,but is this really just a tory bash thing

"Do you know, i miss Gabby."

Yes, I do

Looking back, Justine says 'The Minister is with us and we'll be off shortly.'

It might have been a remote-bot-minister.

No, scottishmummy, it isn't a tory bash thing. She was truly awful and didn't answer questions. Anyone - tory, labour, libdem, UKIP would get criticised for that.