'Women are acting as shock absorbers for the cuts'

[Quodlibet]

New report by Fawcett society on the Budget here

Really depressing stuff - and really depressing that 50% of the population are letting this happen.

Anyone else bothered?!?

Yes I feel like it's closing in on all sides - tax credits wiped out, university fees hike, public sector job insecurity, etc. It's all too much. Union fucking useless...

yep i have gone from being in the top 10% of earners to not earning enough to pay tax. how to suggest 50% of the population act?

Add to your list hocus: cutting child care, cutting sure start, cutting domestic abuse and rape services, cutting libraries...

DuplicitousBitch well for a start we could all be debating/talking about this rather than slagging off celebrities in AIBU which seems to occupying a lot of people on MN today...

what earthy use will talking on mn do? honestly get your head out of your arse

Talking on MN may lead to you reading suggestions to join your local Anti Cuts group. See Coalition of Resistance, UK Uncut, Right to Work, False Economy, Anti cuts, NSSN, TUSC. The opposition to cuts is actually quite widespread. Very popular among those of us who habitually fake disability to take our flat screen TV on holiday in our free cars.

"The increase in the Personal Tax Allowance threshold will not touch the most vulnerable, and among those who will benefit, men will gain £140 million more than women"

That made it sound like the increase will only apply to men (I doubt that) but doesn't it simply mean it will apply to more men because more men are currently working.

Also are cuts in child care being counted as cuts for women only? That would be daft wouldn't it as though the child care money went in the woman's pocket. That is a loss to the family.

Seems to me that journalists are making sure they don't go short by stirring things up.

agree with Aliceliddell
duplicitious.. mn has had high profile campaigns and law suits and the media are known to take note of it on occasion, there are also lot of lazy journalists on here too, as normal posters of course

may i ask, how did you hear of the site?

yes but it is v. unreasonable to start getting all sneering becuase a few women like to have a bit of craic and don't spend every second of their lifes in earnest discussion.

there is a place for both, no? we all like a bit of both of them

Get involved with the Coalition of Resistance:

www.facebook.com/pages/Coalition-of-Resistance-Cant-Pay-Wont-Pay/137748819598933?ref=ts

Thanks, Aura!

True - Women ARE being cut. personally. it hurts.

It seems to me that its evidence of another one of the Government's barely hidden agendas, this one to put women back in the home "where they belong".