If he believes in womens rights, why have rape counselling and domestic violence services been decimated by this government?
On Tuesday, at the Girl Summit in London, David Cameron spoke of ending forced marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM) within a generation and throughout the world. This ambition is noble, as he himself said. Even so, we can recall what the prime ministers pledges noble and ignoble have been worth before. In 2008 he promised to lift 300,000 children out of poverty, should his party be elected to govern; instead he plunged hundreds of thousands right back into it.
From child benefit to the educational maintenance allowance to the future jobs fund, and on and on, his government has delivered a series of retractions, reversals and, during the last election campaign particularly, explicit lies, including this: What I can tell you is, he said, any cabinet minister, if I win the election, who comes to me and says, Here are my plans, and they involve frontline reductions, theyll be sent straight back to their department to go away and think again. Incompetence, design, bad grammar or all three? What does it matter now?
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On Tuesday, at the Girl Summit in London, David Cameron spoke of ending forced marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM) within a generation and throughout the world. This ambition is noble, as he himself said. Even so, we can recall what the prime ministers pledges noble and ignoble have been worth before. In 2008 he promised to lift 300,000 children out of poverty, should his party be elected to govern; instead he plunged hundreds of thousands right back into it.
From child benefit to the educational maintenance allowance to the future jobs fund, and on and on, his government has delivered a series of retractions, reversals and, during the last election campaign particularly, explicit lies, including this: What I can tell you is, he said, any cabinet minister, if I win the election, who comes to me and says, Here are my plans, and they involve frontline reductions, theyll be sent straight back to their department to go away and think again. Incompetence, design, bad grammar or all three? What does it matter now?
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 5 hours ago.