Gordon Brown, Stick It Up Your Bum

News reaches Wiltshire Towers that young Gordon Brown believes that the way to entice women into voting for Labour is to promise us that we can have home births.  This promise has apparently "wooed" us, the female gender, to vote for him, along with a promise that new dads can have an overnight hospital bed when the baby is born.

Might I suggest that, in order to "woo" women voters, he starts by not assuming that our reason for living is to push out babies, just as those pointless adverts that simper "so easy, a man could do it" might do well to stop thinking that to balance inequality we must portray men as stupid.

The thing is, given enough time and metaphorical rope, men are perfectly capable of doing that job themselves without any assistance from women.

Seriously - home births and overnight hospital beds, Gordon? Why not promise us free Dairy Milk and a Mother's Day card?  Or at the very least, legal entitlement, protection, pensions, and related pay for the work that mothers do every day, twenty four hours a day and 365 days a year, every year, until we die or our children do?

And if I may be so impertinent as to remind you that not all women want to have children, perhaps you'll be wanting to re-think your assumption that we are all duly won over by one piss poor promise that you couldn't possibly live up to with the NHS in the state that it is.

It's shit like this Gordo that makes it very hard to keep defending you, knobber.