Dear All
Scotland’s ‘jolly fat man’ Alex Salmond has
waded into a ‘battle of sexes’ over golf membership at Muirfield, home of the
Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers.
Muirfield operates as men-only club.
In Britain in a number of places there are
also clubs strictly for women only.
Should women be allowed women only clubs?
Yes, if likeminded people wish to get
together for some mutual activity that is entirely their own affair.
Should men or boys be allowed to join the
Girl Guides?
As part of Salmond’s protest, he will not
attend the event next month, citing his opposition to Muirfield’s membership
policy.
He won’t be missed.
Salmond said:
“The R&A should have had a good think
about this, and again perhaps politely behind the scenes suggested to Muirfield
that the public profile of being a single-sex club would be difficult. I don’t
think it helps the game to have the suggestion of a bias against women, and the
greatest tournament on
this planet, played on arguably the greatest golf course, should have this
impression that somehow ladies, women, girls, should be second-class citizens.
I don’t think that’s right.”
Does he think men only Rugby clubs are
wrong or what about women’s netball clubs?
You could go on and on, but just because a
group of men get together doesn’t mean that they are discriminating against
women.
It just means a group of men are getting
together.
Muirfield in response to Alex Salmond’s
tripe have said:
“As a club we conform to the Equality Act
2010 and any change in the membership would be for the members to decide. The
club welcomes women to play either as visitors or guests year round with
full use of the facilities, as will be the case throughout the championship. The
club is privileged to have been asked again to have its facilities used to
stage the Open, allowing golf in East Lothian and Scotland to be showcased
throughout the world.”
Is this part of the independence strategy
to appeal to the ‘women’s vote’?
Jackson Carlaw, Tory deputy leader, said:
“At least we will be spared photographs of
him [Mr Salmond] sprawled like a beached whale beside the greens.”
Despite his stance, the Scottish
Government’s tourism minister Fergus Ewing will attend the event; apparently
his sense of this ‘outrage’ doesn’t match Salmond’s, but then we shouldn’t forget that the
senior SNP leaders love their freebies.
Stay tuned for any possibly announcement from Nicola Sturgeon about SNP outrage about the Girl Guides operating a female only policy.
Another barmy, badly thought-out and ill judged blunder from Alex Salmond, who is becoming increasingly bizarre and divorced from reality as he sinks much like his failed SNP crony ridden independence campaign.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
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