I'm not quite a frothing berserker but I am getting rather cross with our government messing with the good stuff.

[KateMiddIeton]

Just off the top of my head:

• Student fees
• Public sector workers terms and conditions (otherwise known as moving the goal posts after the match has started)
• Women (Report on Fawcett legal challenge result here)
• Sure Start
• NHS
• Erosion of employment rights
• Removal of EMA
• Removal of universal child benefit
• Unfair changes to DLA
• Unfair changes to ESA assessment

I am getting more and more fed up that these decisions are being made to take away some of the things we should be most proud of and that took years to be achieved.

This thread is a safe haven for some ranting as I know some of us are feeling sick and tired of it all.

I think I just tweeted

I'm not very good at twitter

I can't do it.....

I keep getting summat about frothers surf

have never tweeted before

I barely even do bloody FB !!

Have just set up a twitter account.

I am PandoraMN if you want to follow me

Will get more active after my bath.

have had a little froth on another thread though

yet another snide dig about striking public sector workers using tomorrow as a Xmas shopping day

fucking ignoramusi

I am AFMumsnet

I think

if you put #frothers in the serch on twitter you should see my tweet, theres no group to join or anything it just puts everything in one place by adding the tag, if that makes any sense (and follow me if you like)

Anything you have to say about frothers issues on twitter, just add the hashtag

I'll have a go at finding links and stuff to tweet with the #frothers tag and post here tomorrow when my eyes and brain aren't on fire with tiredness.

Who are some good political/satire/etc figures to follow on twitter? I can't think at all in this sate. I'm thinking RT's from anything good they might say and adding (and therefore adopting them) as #frothers

Can't find you AF will try again later though

I've found AF. Am following now.

kate - you get quote of the day for, "If only MrsDV. Trouble is Eton keeps breeding them, daddy keeps bank-rolling them and the Bullingdon Club keeps churning them out.

They're like Japanese Knotweed. Once you get them, you can never get rid of them."

i rather enjoyed:

first name: any
surname: fucker

though too.

child in bed. he had a late night in honour of the strike tomorrow.

i still think all the children should have been bussed to westminster and delivered to the house to give them a real flavour of the childcare problems in this country and reality of women's working lives. alternatively we could have done the action that a fem group did not long ago of turning banks into creches to make the point of misdirected public funds. we could have all invaded local branches and had sit ins with our kids.

I did #frothers too but there were only 2 more. Hardly a movement just yet :D

Hahah skirt we will get there in the end

re; twitter; I like politic_animal, charltonbrooker, fawcettsociety, itsmotherswork, hangbitch , mrsnickyclark and etonoldboys.

although charlie brooker isn't really that political, he just moans a lot.

We should attempt to get #frothers trending by the weekend

I can't do it

I can't find #frothers

I can't find Pandora

nothing is happening. I appear to have an account, but can't work out how to use it.

This is why I usually just stick with MN

I am too tired. Too fed up.

< rawls around on floor >

Just write #frothers where it says whats happening

Sorry for the delay, I was doing work emails before the strike commences!

Links on this thread all in one place;

Information;

Info from Fawcett Society Challenge

NHS cuts

Fawcett Society

EMA

Sure Start Labour Party Link

RCN on employment changes

employment law changes

Feminist perspective on the cuts

John Bercow's portrait £37,000

Mumsnet discussion on free childcare for 2 year olds

Action;

Save our NHS petition

the NHS different link

pledge to boycott workfare

Run as an Independent

hate to bring it up but are we going to offend epileptics? isn't it a word that used to be used disparagingly about them or did i dream that?

Have been trying to find you, AF.

Try just typing something like "joining #frothers" - tweet it, then click on #frothers in your own tweet. It should take you to the tweets already made on that hashtag.

sterling work emskaboo!

af i can't work twitter either for shame. i've tried a couple of times now and it just won't make sense to me

I tried that, US

I get other frothers things but not "frothers"

a lovely "Mr Frother"

he's not with us though, is he

Pandora, thanks for trying, love but your last post is like a foreign language to me

I've found her Pandora. She's the last person I'm following (or last but one).

saf, I just can't do it

is it a sign of how tired and fed up I am that it is making me actually tearful ?

don't make me do it, guys

thank you emskaboo