Dear All
One of the key themes of this blog is that Britain is a corrupt country.
Discrimination is discrimination, no matter how it is parcelled up.
Now the suggestion has been put forward that obligatory quotas should be used for the number of women put forward for selection as a parliamentary candidate by each political party.
People should be selected purely on the basis of merit.
Speaker John Bercow said;
"We recognise that equality guarantees do not sit easily within some political party cultures”.
This is a nonsense which will achieve nothing as the process can simply be rigged if it is a numbers game. Parties will simply have branch members proposed who have no interest in standing.
The interesting point made by the cross party committee is current set up is for a candidate to be "white, male, middle class".
And in the main, university educated.
Despite having all the qualifications, one unmistakeable point is missed out that is ‘local’, for a candidate in a main party to do well, it helps if they are local, particularly in by-elections.
The cross party committee head by Bercow moves us all one step closer to the concept that a person regardless of how hard they work is not good enough based on gender.
The phrase ‘positive discrimination’ doesn’t work, if a person can’t win their nomination on their own merit, why is it acceptable that they win it by deceit via a third party?
It is up to political parties to provide those standing to be candidates with the help and support they need to pass selection.
Obligatory quotas are nothing more than a sham, to be seen to be doing something while actually doing nothing except creating another hoop for people to jump through.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
One of the key themes of this blog is that Britain is a corrupt country.
Discrimination is discrimination, no matter how it is parcelled up.
Now the suggestion has been put forward that obligatory quotas should be used for the number of women put forward for selection as a parliamentary candidate by each political party.
People should be selected purely on the basis of merit.
Speaker John Bercow said;
"We recognise that equality guarantees do not sit easily within some political party cultures”.
This is a nonsense which will achieve nothing as the process can simply be rigged if it is a numbers game. Parties will simply have branch members proposed who have no interest in standing.
The interesting point made by the cross party committee is current set up is for a candidate to be "white, male, middle class".
And in the main, university educated.
Despite having all the qualifications, one unmistakeable point is missed out that is ‘local’, for a candidate in a main party to do well, it helps if they are local, particularly in by-elections.
The cross party committee head by Bercow moves us all one step closer to the concept that a person regardless of how hard they work is not good enough based on gender.
The phrase ‘positive discrimination’ doesn’t work, if a person can’t win their nomination on their own merit, why is it acceptable that they win it by deceit via a third party?
It is up to political parties to provide those standing to be candidates with the help and support they need to pass selection.
Obligatory quotas are nothing more than a sham, to be seen to be doing something while actually doing nothing except creating another hoop for people to jump through.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
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