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    1. Turbantastic on

      Reform candidate says something stupid to appeal to their knuckle dragging, backwards supporters? What a surprise……

    2. KernowKermit on

      I think as many families as possible should have an economically viable choice for one parent or the other to take a break from the workplace to look after children in the early years. I also think childcare should be an equally economically viable choice if both want to return to work to one degree or another.

      The state needs to do a lot more to make both of those options available to more of us.

    3. SpottedDicknCustard on

      Are you going to raise the minimum wage so that a one person earning family can afford to do that?

      No.

      So, you’re just a misogynistic little arse.

    4. Had he said: „women [or men] should be able to stay at home and look after the kids because a reasonable single income should, in a non-dysfunctonal society, be enough to allow a family to live, not extravagantly, but modestly and (hopefully) happily“ then I would agree with him. Caveat that if you have LOADS of kids then that single income needs to rise in proportion. And no parentification allowed, obviously.

      I personally think that babies and infants benefit from having their mother/primary caregiver around during the early years. But I don’t judge people for whom that’s no possible.

      The problems here are wage stagnation, house prices/rent, energy and food prices, inflation, cost of everything; it’s not „mums should just stay at home“.

      Equally if parents are happy to have a nursery care for their kids and focus on work, why shouldn’t they? All that is required is a great nursery where the child is well cared for.

    5. In an ideal world, *one of the parents* would do this.

      But it’s not an ideal world. We’ve pursued policies that have created massive shortages of housing, so the cost of living is too high for most households to be able to survive on a single salary.

      And one of the big reasons for the massive housing costs are the sort of NIMBY twats who vote Reform, while yearning for a past world that never existed.

    6. leclercwitch on

      I’d love to. But we can’t afford to have children and where are we going to put them in our one bed flat? Is my partners wage going to double to allow us to do this? No. It’s not.

    7. .. so child benefit is going to be massively hiked .. or rents/house prices dramatically lowered .. or wages hugely increased .. or ..?

    8. Cynical_Classicist on

      These people want to roll back the progress of a lifetime. Look at what is happening in the US, they are doing the same thing.

    9. Will they increase salaries so that a single salary of a man can sustain a family?

    10. CatsGotANosebleed on

      Ok so… Are you going to double the salary and pay increases of every man who is married with children then?

      Some women would probably love to take 5-10 years to raise their kids with full attention and time if that was somehow economically feasible, and return to guaranteed work once the kids are semi-independent. But that’s completely impossible unless the other partner is making a very high salary, and opens up massive risk to the mother if the providing partner decides to leave. 

      Of course these bellends don’t finish a single thought before spewing it out of their mouth holes. 

    11. Solid-Version on

      The paradox of the far right.

      On one hand:

      Women should stay home and look after children whilst their husbands work.

      On the other hand:

      Support policies and create economic conditions that make it virtually impossible for the vast majority of the population to do that.

    12. These people seem to think the thing that took women out of the home and into the workplace was radical feminism, but it wasn’t really.

      It was rents.

    13. groovylittlesparrow on

      Women have always engaged in paid and unpaid labor, contrary to the myth that they only recently entered the workforce.

      Historically, women worked in agriculture, traded goods, ran businesses, and performed domestic services.

      *The notion that a woman’s place is exclusively in the home is largely a modern or upper-class illusion*

      Working – class women have always needed to work for survival.

    14. hundreddollar on

      Mum can we have MAGA?

      Son we already have MAGA at home!

      The MAGA at home: REFORM.

      Literally just parotting what worked in the USA for the republicans.

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