Remember when they tried to scrap family tax credits? Until there was so much backlash they reversed it. The Tories are just trying to see what they can get away with cutting to punish the poor and reward the rich.
At the heart of this government is a cohort of old boys who basically think that wimmin have no place anywhere in society except in the kitchen, the bedroom, and walking 3 paces behind their dominant male when out and about. Everything else is just lip service.
>Labour’s shadow minister for the arts and civil society, Barbara Keeley MP, said: “Rather than sidelining a charity because they don’t like the chief executive’s tweets, the Conservatives should be laser-focused on tackling energy bills and the cost of living crisis.”
Huh?
Seems like a weird thing to say given that the issue at hand is a charity devoted to maternity-related issues being “sidelined”. What have energy bill prices and the cost of living got to do with maternity issues (save some sort of fairly indirect link)?
> Ros Bragg tweeted: “We have an advisory board looking at ‘non-legislative improvements’ to reduce maternity discrimination which will meet quarterly until March 2023. No action plan. No recommendations for legislative change.” After highlighting recommendations from the sector, she added: “Disappointing”.
Ros seems to have been labouring under the misapprehension that the government had any intention of doing anything except getting a positive headline from setting up the board.
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Remember when they tried to scrap family tax credits? Until there was so much backlash they reversed it. The Tories are just trying to see what they can get away with cutting to punish the poor and reward the rich.
At the heart of this government is a cohort of old boys who basically think that wimmin have no place anywhere in society except in the kitchen, the bedroom, and walking 3 paces behind their dominant male when out and about. Everything else is just lip service.
>Labour’s shadow minister for the arts and civil society, Barbara Keeley MP, said: “Rather than sidelining a charity because they don’t like the chief executive’s tweets, the Conservatives should be laser-focused on tackling energy bills and the cost of living crisis.”
Huh?
Seems like a weird thing to say given that the issue at hand is a charity devoted to maternity-related issues being “sidelined”. What have energy bill prices and the cost of living got to do with maternity issues (save some sort of fairly indirect link)?
> Ros Bragg tweeted: “We have an advisory board looking at ‘non-legislative improvements’ to reduce maternity discrimination which will meet quarterly until March 2023. No action plan. No recommendations for legislative change.” After highlighting recommendations from the sector, she added: “Disappointing”.
Ros seems to have been labouring under the misapprehension that the government had any intention of doing anything except getting a positive headline from setting up the board.