Harman's discrimination plan?

Question

Equality minister Harriet Harman has set out plans to allow firms to discriminate in favour of female and ethnic minority job candidates.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7474801.stm

I need to get of this country…!!!

Answer 1

It's yet another piece of Nu Labour legislation the needs to be repealed.

I'm thinking that I might leave too. Somewhere like Australia, where they control immigration and only let in those that will benefit those already there sounds pretty good. (I'm highly qualified, over taxed, grossly under paid and receive virtually nothing back from the state, so it will be the country that looses by my leaving.)

Answer 2

It's way too broad.  It bites off too much.  Breastfeeding in public?  How does that fit in?  My late wife breastfed in public, but nobody took offense because she was discreet.  A better approach might be to teach mothers how to use discretion.  That doesn't require a law.

As far as the homophobic bullying, that's only the tip of the iceberg as far as the bullying that goes on in the workplace.  But if you're a straight white male--the ones that are most often bullied--it still doesn't address the problem of bullying.

Answer 3

Harman only got her job as she is a woman - she is useless, brain dead and a parasite like most MPs.   Whatever happened to the idea of the most suitable candidate getting the job?   No wonder we are a third world when we have to bow down to the worst being placed first.   What about jobs for the British never mind all the immigrants?

Answer 4

It gives a whole new meaning to a token black and if I was black or from an ethnic minority I would actually be insulted.  So before they say they couldn't get a job because of their colour and now it seems that they get offered a job based on that very thing!

Answer 5

Thank God I'm not an employer, I'd be terrified of hiring anyone who wasn't an ethnic L*****n muslim from lithuania.