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'll get back onto the tweeting and links etc tomorrow. Have followed a few fellow #frothers

yes dolly! and he clearly wanted women to do the work of BigSociety (BS - what a nob to come up with a catch phrase that has the initials BS - it's like alan partridge or something) so here we are.

thanks fothergill

AF I've tweeted you and included the hashtag. If you view your timeline and click on #frothers you'll find us.

You'll also see me under your followers on profile.

But it'll wait. More important things than twitter. Truly.

I can barely believe what I've heard today. One day before a general strike they announce a 1% rise in public sector pay over how many years I don't know. Then bringing the pension age rise forwards for everyone when the public sector are striking because of changes to theirs. Almost like they want to whip up hate.

I still need to check what the pension rules mean for me born in 1961 but it doesn't sound good. When I started working in 1979 we were told our retirement age was 60. Tens of thousands of pounds gone puff!

DD also has the ill fortune to be born in the first half of 1994 and will have to pay 3 times more for a uni education. Tens of thousand of pounds gone puff!

Most people really don't take notice until something affects their pocket and services, it's true but everyone should sit up and take notice because it will hit everyone except the rich. The party is indeed over .

I'm still not convinced that they will take child benefit off the HR taxpayers. It hasn't come in yet and they gave far too much notice. I reckon they will backtrack to try and keep their votes and it's been a great, all in it together, stick. I might be wrong.

I voted Lib Dem in what was a conservative safe seat to keep them bastards out. Never again, it's Labour for me from now on.

Thank you AF. May I just say that I frequently find myself nodding vigorously at your postings and saying "She's absolutely right" to DP/DS/the cats?

Right off to investigate this Twitter business (and settle a wailing toddler).

i've opened an account and tweeted - someone had my bloody name so i've had to be swallowedAflyMN (wanted without the mn). will people please come show themselves to me/follow me so i know i am actually there daft as it sounds please?

why thank you dolly

you can stay

Already done, swallowedafly.

I had to do the MN thing too.

Following and have tweeted! So furious today I've worn myself out!

I had closed Twitter down in a big ole temper

will try again in a mo

I had a reply to my message to HuntyCat re. the word "frothers"

if i get her permission, i will repost it here

Oh found it. You can collect your state pension at 66 if you are within 14 years from it. I've 16 to go and not much in the way of a private provision. Too busy paying for bills and bringing DD up to provide for my own pension. Thanks a bunch Gideon!

I've only read the first page, but can I please froth along with you? After the meeting at my DD's Secondary school, I wads talking to the HT, who informed me that by 2014, any dc with SEN not severe enough for a statement (that'd be most of them then) will not have SEN any more. Or rather, they will HAVE SEN, sometimes be up to or over 4 years behind their peers - but get NO HELP AT ALL.

I'll go back and read the other 11 pages now...

ok, I reopened Twitter

I just have the blue sky screen

whatever i click on, nothing happens

ah, HuntyCat is here

Have you logged in AF?

HugosGoatee - May I join you in frothing about Academies. EVERY Secondary in my town is going to be an Academy. I stayed in a teeny tiny house to get DD into a school that WASN'T an Academy - and it will become an Academy just before she starts her GCSE's. . With no real SEN accountability. . Which even the HT didn't know, and has asked ME for more info on.

(Back to reading thread and frothing some more)

yes, kate, it has my Twitter name in the top right corner

I think HC is happy to use the term "frothing"

Are you on Twitter webpage or an app of some kind?

Also, the level of apathy astounds me - at the consultation meeting for the Academy process at DD's school tonight - an 'outstanding' school, with (usually) VERY interested parents - at a school with nearly 2000 pupils - only 35 people turned up, 8 of whom were either school staff or Governors, and one was a Governor for my DS's Primary school who are also going to become an Academy Grrrrrr.

I don't have a fucking clue

I go to the Twitter website

I log in

All the buttons I press...nothing happens

Just nothing

I press "who to follow" and nothing happens

I type something in the white box "what's happening", press enter and nothing happens

It's not working properly for you AF that's for sure - it's not you or anything you are doing. Try restarting your pooter or just leave it til tomorrow and try again

thanks anyway

this link about how Osbornes cuts are affecting women is good

it's a Feminist site, but not too in ya face (for you daft women that think Fems are scary )

Just got in a whole new froth at the news that Osbourne is forecasting 79bn of borriwng, revised from 49bn and MORE than Labour were forecasting before the election and before the 'austerity'

So all this utter crap isn't even having any effect, and we and our children all suffer for nothing. Marvellous.