Buying the SAHM vote?

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Tories plan rewards for stay-at-home mothers, who are being pressurised 'back to work by Labour'
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Last updated at 22:41pm on 14th February 2008

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The Tories plan to reward families where one parents chooses to stay at home to look after a child
Millions of mothers have been "pressurised" by Labour to return to work, the Tories claimed yesterday as they unveiled a series of proposals designed to capture female votes.


A major report ordered by David Cameron said the Government's approach to working women had been to "compel, to lecture and to condescend".


Benefits and regulations have been skewed to help working mothers, while those who stay at home have been stripped of tax breaks such as the married couples' allowance.


For many women, a sensible "work-life balance" remains elusive.

The report says 41 per cent of parents spend two hours or less with their child each day and just a third of families eat together regularly.


In response, the Tories are pledging to rebalance the tax system to reward families where one parent chooses to stay at home to look after a child.


Full details will not be unveiled until closer to the next election, but their reforms could mean an extra £3,000 a year for some couples.


The Conservatives say they would end the "couple penalty" in the benefit system which gives a single parent the same amount as couples - effectively encouraging people to separate and claim extra cash.


But they are risking a row with business leaders by proposing a dramatic extension of the rights of workers to request to go part-time.


They are pledging to allow all parents with under-18s - not just those with under-sixes or disabled children, as at present - to ask for family-friendly hours.


Yesterday's report from the Conservative Women's Policy Group made clear the party wants to go further still.

"Eventually, our ambition is to make flexible working available to as many people as possible," it said.


The wide-ranging report also proposes measures to close the persistent pay gap between men and women; to encourage greater choice in childcare; an extension of restraining orders to deter stalking and harassment; a benefits crackdown on men with more than one wife; one-to-one interviews for foreign women arriving at UK airports to prevent "people trafficking"; a review of rape sentences, and teaching sexual consent as a compulsory part of sex education lessons.


Shadow women's minister Theresa May said: "The Government has one model, which is that it assumes that all women will be in the workplace.


"Through the benefits system, it has been trying to push women down that particular path.


"What we want to do is to have a situation where women and families are able to choose what's going to work for them."

Labour Women's Minister Barbara Follett said: "The Tories are a maledominated party who are only after women for one thing - their votes.


"Why should any women trust Theresa May to understand and act on their concerns when she has opposed every change to improve women's lives?"

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Lord, what fools these mortals be!
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, Scene ii

Voltaire said: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

H.L.Mencken wrote:"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein

What really pisses me off is the 'proposals designed to capture female votes' crap. Not all of us are breeders or want to breed. Hell, some of us don't even give a shit about kids either. Talk about sexual stereotyping or tarring us all with the same brush.

If this twat Cameron and his Tory-party breeder pleasers get in, I'm emigrating (and the current Labour government is bad enough).

i know proper, but problem is, all parties do it now. and forever will. whether they are UK or american, they want to line their own pockets and vote winning things like that makes them win.

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I just post the stories, for interest.. for everyone

Lord, what fools these mortals be!
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, Scene ii

Voltaire said: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

H.L.Mencken wrote:"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein

Before and during the day of the California presidential primary, we had to endure the bullshit coming from Hillary's campaign about "women caring for working mothers". Everything out of HRC's mouth in her campaign stops was about working moos, perceived unfairness and the other usual whining about fambly-friendly work policies. Of course, most of the twats supporting HRC in my office were moos who already leave early or take off work every time their cuntdumpling has a sniffle.

I am no right-winger by any means, but HRC is a power hungry cunt who takes it for granted that all women should vote for her simply because we have tits. Sorry to disillusion you, Hil, but I did not vote for your skanky ass because I do not like to be told that I MUST vote for you because I have a uterus. The same can be said for Diane and Barbara, our two ineffectual senators who have not done a damn thing in congress this year.

Goddess knows we need more realistic, viable feminist candidates who stop pandering to the deification of the single working moo. Most of those cunts do not even vote and they contribute nothing to the economy. I am sick and tired of paying taxes to support their brats!

I can't stand her either, CFB. We'll be living in her "village" for many yeas to come. I think that comment alone did a lot to create the entitlement attitude that's so pervasive today.

I hate that fucking cunt, also. Useless and delusional.

GAH!!! I hate Hillary, she's a complete panderer and will have her husband say anything to get her elected.

You know who I hate more than Hillary, though, every single woman who says she has to vote for Hillary simply because she's a viable woman presidential candidate. Thanks, bitches, thanks for making me ashamed of my gender. Seriously, would they vote for Ann Coulter if she were a viable presidential candidate? Phyllis Shafly? Eileen Wornos? Eva Braun? Just because someone has the same genitals as you IS NOT a reason to vote for them.

"It truly is the one commonality that every designation of humans you can think of has, there's at least one asshole."
--Me