A few months ago Yvette Cooper, one of Labour anti-male emissaries, launched an amazingly economically illiterate rant against the Budget and here we go again as she is big news in the Guardian, who of course slavishly lap it all up.
This time Yvette Cooper says that the Comprehensive Spending Review is the "biggest reversal of women's opportunites and economic independence since WW1' . There was also an article in the Guardian about the Fawcett Society's campaign to sue the Government!
Without having to repeat so much before but firstly where were the politicians defending and speaking out for men who were the big losers in the recession and redundancies affecting the private sector. They were nowhere to be found.
In fact, a great point about the anti-male hypocrisy of politicians and others who speak out about how the budget and Comprehensive Spending Review was made in the Guardian article about the Fawcett Society.
In the comments section, someone said why so-called equality campaigners are not complaining against the decision to stop a grant to Sheffield Forgemasters even though that will cost men's jobs. Nothing from Cooper, Flint or Harman.
Secondly, job cuts that affect women also affect the men in their lives as they do not live in isolation.
And this undermines Yvette Cooper. She says using House of Commons research that women are hit harder from the cuts because 70% of tax credits are paid to mothers as is 94% of child benefit. Of course, if the mother has a son - he suffers as well. And of course if the mother has a partner/husband sharing her life then he suffers as well. Just because the mother receives the money, doesn't mean he doesn'nt suffer as well.
The fact that this stuff gets airtime without being questioned shows how the media just print it without a challenge or thought. Yvette Cooper's claims are laughable, they do not stack up and shows the feminst seperatist movement in all its red-clawed hatred of men all dressed up in the name of equality.
Posted by Skimmington
Harman seems to be taking more of a back seat these days. I guess Cooper wants to be the new chief man hater in the Labour Party (although there's certainly an incredible amount of competition for the role)
Posted by: John Kimble | Friday, 29 October 2010 at 05:57