I'm disgusted

[andrewducker]

If you are a woman, know one, or are related to one then you'll almost certainly be as sickened as I am by this article on discrimination against pregnant mothers.  But not terribly surprised by most of it.  The bit that gets to me is that an advisor to the government is saying it, and nobody is speaking out to contradict him...

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[marrog.livejournal.com]

Me three.

On a somewhat related note I worry that the reason the current bipartisan system of gov is working so badly (to my mind) at the moment is directly due to a left-wing, originally pretty socialist party coming into power way back when in the first place. It seems to me as though the ideal situation sees a hard-core pro-capitalism party in majority being constantly checked and balanced and limited and second-guessed by their left-wing pro-socialism opposition, and we just don't have that anymore.

[andrewducker]

The problem is that, certainly down south, the left-wing party only came to power because it promised to move the the centre. Without both that _and_ the opposition behaving really shittily, they never would have been elected.