Suppose we turn it round

UK has got ‘fat’ on decades of women’s unpaid labour – Jess Phillips

Jess Phillips says that the UK has grown "fat" on the unpaid labour of women, a practice she deems "fundamentally sexist".

The minister for safeguarding and violence against women and girls argued that the nation has depended on women’s charitable contributions for decades.

That had led to a reluctance from the government to provide services itself, she said.


Suppose we turn it round. There is paid labour we could do without, both men and women. Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, David Lammy, Bridget Phillipson Ed Miliband and Jess Phillips for example. There are considerable collective advantages to coping without their labour.

Suppose we turn it round a little further and change it into a can of worms simply because it's so easy to turn Labour ideology into cans of worms.


NHS maintained 93% of planned care during resident doctors’ strikes

The NHS maintained care for an estimated 10,000 more patients during the latest doctors’ strike compared with last year’s industrial action.

Early data shows that 93% of planned operations, tests and procedures went ahead during the five-day walkout across England.