How can women voters leave a man like Dave?

Posted 2 Oct 2011 by Walaa Idris

David Cameron Conservative Party Conference 2011

Putting to one side my personal feelings and political biases. I am puzzled at the news that fewer women are supporting David Cameron. Especially since he is the Tory leader who put women, their equality and welfare in the forefront of every decision he made since he became the Conservative Party Leader in 2005. He appointed more female party leaders than any leader before him, now has a female Home Secretary and is surrounded by a powerful female inner circle and Cabinet.

I always say, you can tell how a man really feels about women, by what he says about his mother and the type of woman that he choices to stand by his side, by the two main women in his life! Our Dave is married to a dynamic, single minded and formidable woman – and admires and looks up to his mother!

Let’s also not forget that Cameron is the man who introduced the Priority List of Preferred Candidates – we know it as the A ‘list – which had at least 50% women and saw the most number of women selected and elected to parliament in the history of our party. The A ‘list – loath it or love it – is the reason the Conservatives last year had the largest number of female MPs elected. Clearly the man fully supports and believes in women.

Then what is it? Surely, it’s not his two remarks on the floor of the House. He can’t possibly be vilified for his boisterous remarks – both women, Labour’s Angela Eagle and Conservative Nadine Dorries are no lightweight and I’m positive they took the comments on the chin. Besides, we all know it’s the House of Commons’ culture!

Compare that with the leader of the opposition, Ed Miliband, who fathered two children with a woman he never intended to marry and only reluctantly did under pressure after he became the leader of his party. The man who never even bothered to put his name on his child’s birth certificate!

As a woman and a mother I find Miliband’s behavior towards the mother of his children and therefore his regard to women not to mention his own child, liberal or not, appallingly shocking and disrespectful to women and family values.

However, more women run households, work in public sector jobs and do part time work than men – more women are single parents and have to cope alone. With the cuts and rising costs of living biting more women are under immense financial pressure and that stress will undoubtedly reflect on the popularity of the Coalition Government and its leader.

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Mancman10

Mancman10
3 Oct, 00:29

Walaa i’m amazed at your defence of Cameron here. I know many TORY women who cannot stand the man yet you are saying he should be admired for things like looking up to his mother??????/ jeez every person born in this world should look up to their mother good or bad, we only get one mother!!

You dismiss ‘calm down dear’ as a throwaway joke yet i suggest if say a boss said this to a woman in the workplace when for example she aked for a pay rise they’d be bloody fuming.

Cameron is losing the support of women because he has that flashman,arrogant attitude which will NEVER change no matter how many times he says sorry because when his back is to the wall he cannot empathise with people he believes are below him and he lashes out & also,more importantly,his wretched Govt’s policies are hitting women more as a proportion,the govt leeked memo even admits this.

The TRUE Cameron is coming out now! It’s no surprise to me & millions.

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