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Potential roll back on womens rights

TheCatWoman

I noticed a few days ago that reform are wanting to make childless women pay more tax because were not contributing to society in the right way, basically if we get to menopause and have no children we wrong and unnatural and should be made to pay. 

At no point does it mention infertility, let alone make infertility, there just seems to be a blanket assumption that women have no children through selfishness. 

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  • It is typical of Fascist ideologies to have a burning desire to control other people. Either it is done through coercion, or through monetary disincentives/incentives. Give these people any level of control and they will want to control every aspect of people's daily lives. In a way it is better that they signpost their nasty authoritarian impulses before any national elections, rather than after.

  • in reply to Martin

    It has been said by independent electoral observers that there was "family voting" with one or two male family members entering the booth with another person to instruct them how or who to vote for, this is illegal and rightly so. Reform are kicking off about this, but seem to be under the assumption that everybody doing this was voting against them, so I would guess they've not yet gone as far as some US far right Christians who believe that only the male head of a family should vote on behalf of all family members.

    It was quite funny watching Zia Yusef on Newsnight earlier in the week trying to justify rolling back equality laws and under intense questioning by Victoria Derbyshire that they didn't mean no wheelchair access, or anythig like that, just that white working class men were being discriminated against. So I guess the thought (or what passes for thought), is that if the equality act was removed all white working class men would suddenly be in work?

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  • in reply to Martin

    It has been said by independent electoral observers that there was "family voting" with one or two male family members entering the booth with another person to instruct them how or who to vote for, this is illegal and rightly so. Reform are kicking off about this, but seem to be under the assumption that everybody doing this was voting against them, so I would guess they've not yet gone as far as some US far right Christians who believe that only the male head of a family should vote on behalf of all family members.

    It was quite funny watching Zia Yusef on Newsnight earlier in the week trying to justify rolling back equality laws and under intense questioning by Victoria Derbyshire that they didn't mean no wheelchair access, or anythig like that, just that white working class men were being discriminated against. So I guess the thought (or what passes for thought), is that if the equality act was removed all white working class men would suddenly be in work?

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