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Will Messrs Reeves and Raynor Still Be Around This Time Next Year?

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mae13 Sun 27-Oct-24 08:58:02

Sir Keir's ratings have nosedived so badly since the election that I wonder which moves he might be planning for his first Cabinet re-shuffle.
He strikes me as having an underlying ruthless streak and won't hesitate to jettison certain unpopular "comrades" in order to shore up his own position.
Whenever I see a media photo of Keir, Angela and Rachel grinning idiotically at each other I just have to think "I bet two of you will have got your P45's by next year......"

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MaizieD Sat 02-Nov-24 18:29:55

GG13 was just surmising. I don't think she actually knows the couple being discussed.

It still isn't anyone's business but theirs though.

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MaizieD Sat 02-Nov-24 18:30:21

Unless they're breaking the law, of course...

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jasper16 Sat 02-Nov-24 18:58:49

Never mind. I think it's sad that parents have to work and children are in costly childcare and full time, long days at 4.
Just to keep heads above water.

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Casdon Sat 02-Nov-24 19:15:41

Surely a lot of SAHMs are those just surviving financially, with under fives, on universal credit, rather than being the wives of rich men?

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ronib Sat 02-Nov-24 19:39:31

Paradoxically only rich families can afford child care Casdon

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Allira Sat 02-Nov-24 20:07:18

Casdon

Surely a lot of SAHMs are those just surviving financially, with under fives, on universal credit, rather than being the wives of rich men?

Universal Credit? Nursery vouchers?

So why are SAHMs (who are now Gransnetters) criticised by some on here when they received none of these things? Not even HRP until 1978.

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Allira Sat 02-Nov-24 20:10:34

jasper16

Never mind. I think it's sad that parents have to work and children are in costly childcare and full time, long days at 4.
Just to keep heads above water.

Is it worth it, I wonder?

Long days at 1 or 2, never mind 4.

There were school nurseries when I was a child in the 1940s, I remember going at age 4 and my mother went back to work.
We had to have an afternoon nap on horrible little camp beds, I remember nothing more about it.

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Casdon Sat 02-Nov-24 20:14:38

Don’t ask me Allira, it was just an observation that I think a fair proportion of current SAHMs are in that category now. Nothing I’ve said has been a value judgement.

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Allira Sat 02-Nov-24 20:20:34

Casdon

Don’t ask me Allira, it was just an observation that I think a fair proportion of current SAHMs are in that category now. Nothing I’ve said has been a value judgement.

I don't know the answer either.
We looked after some DGC when their mother worked part-time which worked well, but not everyone has family near enough, including our other DC.

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