Redwood: I did not vilify single mothers

Feb 20 2007 Tomos Livingstone, Western Mail

FORMER Welsh Secretary John Redwood was embroiled in another row over single mothers last night after saying he was fed up of "lies" over remarks he made after a visit to a Cardiff estate 14 years ago.

He was widely criticised as vilifying one-parent families in a speech he gave after a tour of the capital's St Mellons estate in 1993.

But he insists he merely called for absent fathers to make a contribution to their children's upbringing, and that he then became an early victim of Labour spin

..There is no end to the long line of politicians, New Labour these days, blaming parents and especially mothers for anti social behaviour, the sate of the nation , council housing, the world..yeah