I honestly don’t get any of this ongoing debate – should teachers be able to take their kids into the class room? Office workers?
Since when has taking your kids to work been okay?
Is that because it would show how childish MPs actually behave?
You can think it’s both:
– not OK to bring a baby into the chamber on the reg AND
– stupid that MPs have no framework for ma(pa)ternity cover in the same sense as (checking notes…) every other job in the UK.
But advocating the former without the second, as in this case, is just a non-solution. You can bury your head if you’re personally OK with creche/childcare arrangements, but not everyone is, and moreover not everyone is comfortable with that setup. If your representation of constituents is dependent on 20min feeding breaks every hour or so, how are you supposed to coordinate when you’re in the chamber for relevant debates or not? Who says what’s relevant to your constituents?
They’re right, I wouldn’t trust my baby around a bunch of smackheads and cokeheads either.
There was that MEP who took her baby to work every day to sit in parliament until she was 8 months or so. It turned out fine; baby was cared for and quiet. I’m not seeing what the big deal is.
No, but it’s a place for theiving and lying kleptocrats though.
Wasn’t sure if this was going to be a story about childcare or about Boris
Why has the palace of Westminster not got a crèche and kindergarten? Hell fire the place is big enough and has enough real estate to have a whole primary school.
Then we could get a lot more sensible women in parliament and a few less prep school, public school wankers.
Wealthy Tories don’t do children. They have nannies and boarding schools.
They are completely out of touch with reality.
Yes, I also agree that the primeminister is not fit for office.
ITT: people who are suddenly massive sticklers for parliamentary traditions and the sacred bond between MP and constituent when it can be used to exclude women.
Does the Commons not have a nursery? Could one not be built to accommodate MPs? It’s best for the child to spend a lot of time with its mother, however the Commons may not be the best place for that, at least not in debates. It just shows how poor maternity and paternity leave is, but also that an MP can be directly affected and so few colleagues refuse to come to her defence. It just shows how we are unlikely to see anything change with respect to parental leave in the near future.
If they want more women MPs, then they will have to accept this as normal. Either that, or offer proper maternity and paternity leave to MPs.
You can’t take a baby in but getting sozzaled at the bar and sniffing coke in the toilets is ok.
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I honestly don’t get any of this ongoing debate – should teachers be able to take their kids into the class room? Office workers?
Since when has taking your kids to work been okay?
Is that because it would show how childish MPs actually behave?
You can think it’s both:
– not OK to bring a baby into the chamber on the reg AND
– stupid that MPs have no framework for ma(pa)ternity cover in the same sense as (checking notes…) every other job in the UK.
But advocating the former without the second, as in this case, is just a non-solution. You can bury your head if you’re personally OK with creche/childcare arrangements, but not everyone is, and moreover not everyone is comfortable with that setup. If your representation of constituents is dependent on 20min feeding breaks every hour or so, how are you supposed to coordinate when you’re in the chamber for relevant debates or not? Who says what’s relevant to your constituents?
They’re right, I wouldn’t trust my baby around a bunch of smackheads and cokeheads either.
There was that MEP who took her baby to work every day to sit in parliament until she was 8 months or so. It turned out fine; baby was cared for and quiet. I’m not seeing what the big deal is.
No, but it’s a place for theiving and lying kleptocrats though.
Wasn’t sure if this was going to be a story about childcare or about Boris
Why has the palace of Westminster not got a crèche and kindergarten? Hell fire the place is big enough and has enough real estate to have a whole primary school.
Then we could get a lot more sensible women in parliament and a few less prep school, public school wankers.
Wealthy Tories don’t do children. They have nannies and boarding schools.
They are completely out of touch with reality.
Yes, I also agree that the primeminister is not fit for office.
ITT: people who are suddenly massive sticklers for parliamentary traditions and the sacred bond between MP and constituent when it can be used to exclude women.
Does the Commons not have a nursery? Could one not be built to accommodate MPs? It’s best for the child to spend a lot of time with its mother, however the Commons may not be the best place for that, at least not in debates. It just shows how poor maternity and paternity leave is, but also that an MP can be directly affected and so few colleagues refuse to come to her defence. It just shows how we are unlikely to see anything change with respect to parental leave in the near future.
If they want more women MPs, then they will have to accept this as normal. Either that, or offer proper maternity and paternity leave to MPs.
You can’t take a baby in but getting sozzaled at the bar and sniffing coke in the toilets is ok.