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I knew it would be trouble giving women the vote.....
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There must be more to this than we're getting.
I don't know what, but there must be.

Has it been on Victoria Derbyshire? I haven't watched it this week.
She was on some thing this morning.... I switched over.
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All I can say is that her request sounds a lot more reasonable than claiming for a refurbished duck house.
Etc.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48701503

Writing in the Times, Mrs Badenoch (on the right), Conservative MP for Saffron Walden, said Ms Creasy's intervention was "hugely disappointing" and was "diverting attention away from those we should be helping".

Mrs Badenoch - who is six months pregnant and had two children before becoming an MP - said she had "greater autonomy" while pregnant in her current role than in her previous careers.

"I would find it hard to claim to a constituent on the minimum wage that I have a bad deal," she added.
Ms Badenoch argued it was "unrealistic" to have job shares or parental cover for MPs, as the replacement would not be able to vote on issues in parliament.

While she said she was "horrified" to hear about MPs working in the final stages of a difficult pregnancy or just after giving birth, she said there was "absolutely no compulsion to do this" and MPs should resist these "unreasonable pressures".

She added that all MPs receive a budget of £150,000 for staffing costs and said this could be used to cover any period of absence by an MP.
Both women have interesting backgrounds:

Creasy has connections to the Peerage, being from the family of John Prendergast-Smyth, 1st Viscount Gort, and the Cayzer baronets. Creasy's mother has described her background as "very aristocratic" and "enormously privileged". Creasy was born in Sutton Coldfield, and is the daughter of Corinna Frances Avril (née Martin) and Philip Charles Creasy, both active Labour Party members; her father is a trained opera singer and her mother a headteacher of a special needs school. Her elder brother, Matthew Henry Creasy (born 1974), is an academic.

After spending her early childhood in Manchester, her family moved to Colchester where Creasy attended Colchester County High School for Girls, a grammar school. Although she initially failed the eleven-plus exam, the Creasy family's move south gave her a second chance. Creasy attended Magdalene College, Cambridge where she read Social and Political Sciences before pursuing a career in politics.

Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke was born in Wimbledon, London to Femi and Feyi Adegoke. Her father is a GP and her mother is a professor of physiology. Adegoke's childhood included time living in the United States (where her mother lectured) and Lagos, Nigeria. She returned to the United Kingdom at the age of 16.
Adegoke studied Computer Systems Engineering at the University of Sussex. She initially worked within the IT sector first as a software engineer at Logica (later CGI Group). While working there she studied part-time at Birkbeck, University of London and obtained a Law degree in 2009.

Adegoke then worked as a systems analyst at RBS, before pursuing a career in consultancy and financial services. She entered politics in 2005.
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Being an MP should be a full time job.

Women who want to be a mother and an MP should not even consider being an MP.
Well that would be fair if it also applied to men who want to be fathers.
Let's just have all childless people as MPs like Edward Heath and Theresa May.
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Well that would be fair if it also applied to men who want to be fathers.
Let's just have all childless people as MPs like Edward Heath and Theresa May.
Good point, Xandra.
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Re: MPs' maternity rights: Labour's Stella Creasy speaks out

Originally Posted by Xandra ->
Well that would be fair if it also applied to men who want to be fathers.
Let's just have all childless people as MPs like Edward Heath and Theresa May.
I believe women should be allowed to continue in their roll as MP as long as they don't mind giving birth in a quiet spot on the backbenches so it doesn't interfere with their continuation of duty.....
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It was several years ago that there was a row about an MP wanting to breastfeed her baby, and the lack of crèche facilities.

Why are these things still a problem? Jeez!
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When politics was a calling, not a career, there was no time (or place) for sex.
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When politics was a calling, not a career, there was no time (or place) for sex.
Good point Spitty, and when is all the washing and ironing going to get done if all the married women are busy poncing around parliament......
 
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