The Conservative MP Miriam Cates, a high-profile figure on the party’s right wing, is being investigated by the parliamentary standards watchdog.
Cates, the MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge in South Yorkshire since 2019, is being investigated for “actions causing significant damage to the reputation of the house as a whole, or of its members generally”, a brief notice on the website of the commissioner for standards said.
The inquiry falls under paragraph 17 of the updated 2019 code of conduct for MPs, which says: “Members shall never undertake any action which would cause significant damage to the reputation and integrity of the House of Commons as a whole, or of its members generally.”
I understand your point and I don’t contest it. But to claim that there is no correlation between education and the number of kids you have and to claim that it isn’t least partly causative is denial.
If you came out of uni with thousands of pounds worth of debt, 7 years behind others who have already joined the work force, no high skilled job to move in to, not married because you were focusing on your studies and unable to afford a house, having kids would probably be quite far down your priorities list.
You might be the sort of pendant that says “it’s not the fall that kills you, it’s the sudden stop!”
Actually, It is the sudden strop that kills you, or at the very least hitting something that slows you on the way down. Having no kids is a symptom not a cause, and education would help alleviate that. Demonising those who are less well is a blight in this country that needs to stop.
Sure, and it’s the amps that kill you not the voltage! (Unless you ignore the fact that without voltage, there can be no amps). And guns don’t kill people, bullets do!
Ok, well I think the evidence is overwhelming that higher educated people have less kids, I don’t think that’s the only reason people have less kids but it’s obviously a factor. I think we’re at the point where we have to agree to disagree, we’re not going to change each others minds here.
Good day, and good luck!