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

LOL at the £2m. paying for everything.

I hardly think we need to worry about the deficit if £2m goes so far...

what an absolute shambolic embarassment.

I am ashamed for her.

total and utter spin. not even soundbites. just banal , pat on the head, there there ladies rubbish.

it would be laughable if not so frightening

Fastidia
It is a bit feeding the five thousand, with that £2m. Put the bible down, Maria. Miracles don't really happen.

Did she say how many families it was supposed to help? Who is it targeted at?

What a load of old bollocks.

Still, I don't know why I expected any better.

Wouldn't it be good if we could do these Q&A's via webcam, so we might have more chance of pinning politicians down to give a proper answer?

"Lulumama Thu 22-Nov-12 17:23:42

just banal , pat on the head, there there ladies rubbish.

it would be laughable if not so frightening"

Yes. This ^

I did smile at Do please invite me back

And what would be the point of that?

Come back so that I can fail to answer questions again.

Oh yes please.

Yes, her parting post was hilarious! It really sounded like she wanted to be invited back, didn't it?!

I believed her. I think she really cares about like women and kids and shit and theatre and that and so does Dave.

What really scares me is that MM isn't a new or shadow minister, not that it would excuse her inability to engage and listen, but she's in the cabinet FFS.

Maybe I'll encourage the DC's to be MP's. Huge salary and you don't even have to put much effort in.

What a load of old shite.

Just come in from work to feed the DCs and watch them swan out for the evening with Disney Dad (who is too tight to even feed them), hoping to see that I might have made a few bob on EbaY for Christmas.

The Minister doesn't have a fucking clue.

Yeah with a government like this you really need a Minister for Women who is on your side and will fight for women, not one who can't be bothered.

Can I just say, that the Minister's choosing one of Xenia's posts to agree with, was fucking sublime.

"LineRunner Thu 22-Nov-12 19:00:51
The Minister doesn't have a fucking clue."

No is a complete sentence she doesn't I spoiled it right there

LineRunner, I too enjoyed that moment.

I seriously feel a Malcolm Tucker moment coming on.

I'd love to see Justine's face! I bet everyone else at MNHQ was studiously avoiding eye-contact and rushing out to the loo/to get coffee ...

That was a truly terrible web chat. And how fucking patronising that the minister for Women and Equalities should think that it is acceptable to talk to us like this.

I think that the Minister should be fucking ashamed to talk to woman like that.

Just when you thought you'd heard every last useless cliche-ridden piece of shite-infested political nothingness, on comes Maria Miller with her Special Equalities Book Of Vacuous Non-Specific Insulting Nothingness and away we go.

It's alright for you lot, she's my bloody MP . I have to put up with her in the local paper every week. I suppose she inherited a safe seat so it doesn't matter what she does.

And no, I certainly did not vote for her. And, yes, she is always this crap when she responds about anything.

It's not just that she's a Minister - she's the fucking Secretary of State.

Well what an utter wanker she is

It's very telling that the government added her ministership for Women and Equalities on to what she presumably sees as her proper job in Media, Culture and Sport.

Although she may be shit at Media, Culture and Sport as well.

That could be her sop to equality I suppose - crap at it all.