At the weekend I attended a charity event – a family fun day to launch a new local branch of a national charity. As the charity has campaigning amongst its objectives, all of the prospective parliamentary candidates were invited to start building links and one showed up. After the opening speech he asked if could speak about [...]
Posts Tagged ‘politicians’
Hijacking charity events for political gain (and failing!)
Posted in Children, Parents, Politics, tagged campaigning, election, politicians on March 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Tory Education Policy: Cry or Laugh?
Posted in Education, Politics, tagged conservatives, Education, politicians, school on March 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Michael Gove makes me want to cry. I know I am always banging on about education, but I am so dreadfully afraid about what will happen to our schools post-general election, whoever ends up getting in. Maybe it comes from being a newly qualified teacher, a friend and seasoned teacher of 15yrs tells me not [...]
‘Celebrating’ International Women’s Day
Posted in Employment, feminism, Politics, tagged childcare, gender, mothers, parenting, paternity leave, politicians, Role Models on March 9, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday on International Women’s Day, I thought back to a conversation I had with a friend about feminism and motherhood after reading this article. It gave me a lot to think about because I’ve spent the last three years feeling pulled between being a feminist and taking the traditional ‘woman’s role’ in our household. I’ve [...]
What Should We Believe?
Posted in Politics, tagged Media, politicians on February 28, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Did you hear about ‘tangerine gate’? Twitter is all a giggle about how a hoax call to a LBC radio show by Robert Popper, in which a factory worker recalls seeing Gordon Brown throwing a tangerine into a laminating machine during a visit, was reported as serious news in the mainstream press (e.g. Daily Telegraph, [...]
Is Cameron given an easy ride by the BBC?
Posted in Politics, tagged conservatives, economy, election, Media, politicians on February 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The International Monetary Fund yesterday said that our economy is too fragile to cut public spending. Quite significant news, I believe, given that the economy is the central issue in this election campaign. I’ve read about it only in the Guardian and the Mirror. It seems the Daily Mail think maternity leave is more important, the [...]
Who needs policy?
Posted in Politics, tagged conservatives, election, Labour, Media, politicians, vote on February 22, 2010 | 5 Comments »
The last few days have seen lots of political activity. Brown the Bully. A future fair for all (complete with carousel??). Give labour a second chance. James Purnell standing down. It may well be a couple of months until the election – but the campaigns are all up and running, posters are being parodied, and [...]
Is it the General Election yet? David Cameron
Posted in Politics, tagged conservatives, election, politicians, vote on February 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Listening to David Cameron, so you don’t have to. Yes, gentle reader I have fallen on my sword and listened to David Cameron being interviewed on Woman’s Hour in a follow up to my comments on Nick Clegg’s appearance (is it an appearance on radio?!) here. Its worse than that actually, since I lost the [...]
Does mumsnet speak for you?
Posted in Parents, Politics, tagged election, Media, mothers, politicians, vote on February 18, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Janet Street Porter doesn’t like mumsnet, apparently (‘The daily discussions are usually pretty childish, and there’s a fair amount of bullying. There seems to be a received way of thinking, and woe betide anyone who disagrees.’ ) She hates Boden too. She’s a bit of a misery isn’t she? But alongside the usual bile she [...]
Floating
Posted in Politics, tagged election, politicians, vote on February 16, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Many women are still undecided who they will vote for in the up coming General Election, an army of floating voters who could determine the outcome. Apparently, up to 40% of mumsnet users have yet to decide to whom they would give their vote. A straw poll of 19 Laptop Mums showed that over 40% [...]
