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I don’t think that’s true. It’s easy words, and makes people feel good and is completely false. I’ll take that back when there’s a black, openly gay, or amphibian prime minister of the UK.

The best person to do the job should get the job.
Positive discrimination, or points being given for "differences", has no place in a civilised society.
 
I don’t think that’s true. It’s easy words, and makes people feel good and is completely false. I’ll take that back when there’s a black, openly gay, or amphibian prime minister of the UK.
Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price is openly gay ..... granted hes not prime minister of the UK, nor is he the leader / first mister/ top taff in the Welsh Assembly .... yet:sneaky:



While the SNP have a liking for slippery, slightly fishy first ministers in the Scottish Parliament ( Alex Salmond , Nicola Sturgeon)- sort of amphibian? :sneaky:
 
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The best person to do the job should get the job.
Positive discrimination, or points being given for "differences", has no place in a civilised society.
That’s quite a different statement to the one I quoted from you.
I don’t think the electorate will consider a black or gay person to be “the best person for the job” for some time yet. There is a huge amount of selection and reputation (mis)management that happens before they get into the public eye, and to consider that it is all objective and merit based is so naive as to be almost sweet!
 
I`ve done the unconscious bias training and work in the NHS........ nuff said! ? (y)

There is so much stuff going on to make organisations "look like" those they represent, when it should be down to ability to do the job, not if the successful candidate ticks enough box`s.
 
Tony Blair has suggested that more moderate labour people join the Lib Dems.
Good idea I reckon. A moderate centre left party is what the Country needs.
 
The country doesn’t need the likes of Tony Blair any more. We’ve moved on from him...hopefully
 
I saw a bit of PMQs and couldn’t believe Corbyn is still there.
 
I`ve done the unconscious bias training and work in the NHS........ nuff said! ? (y)

There is so much stuff going on to make organisations "look like" those they represent, when it should be down to ability to do the job, not if the successful candidate ticks enough box`s.
Fair enough - but there is a long distance between appointing the wrong people because they tick notional boxes, and declaring no place for positive discrimination! It all comes down to the definition of “best ability to do the job”. I would say that currently in Uk politics to become pm you need to “tick the boxes” of being white, straight and preferably male. Put differently, if someone with Boris’s characteristics was black, gay or female they wouldn’t be anywhere close to number 10!
 
Put differently, if someone with Boris’s characteristics was black, gay or female they wouldn’t be anywhere close to number 10!
I don't know. If they ruffled their hair, spouted a bit of Latin and some occasional casual racism I am sure they'd be fine...
(Actually it baffles me how Boris himself is anywhere near No 10 - can even the Tories not find someone better?)
 
Good to see the enemies of labour debating the future of the party that was made to represent it. Still.
 
Fair enough - but there is a long distance between appointing the wrong people because they tick notional boxes, and declaring no place for positive discrimination! It all comes down to the definition of “best ability to do the job”. I would say that currently in Uk politics to become pm you need to “tick the boxes” of being white, straight and preferably male. Put differently, if someone with Boris’s characteristics was black, gay or female they wouldn’t be anywhere close to number 10!

It has been a long time since we had a female prime minister.
 
Should the 'powers that be' (as the article puts it) be stepping in to save football clubs though? Isn't that too late in the whole process?

Surely the problem is with the financial structure of the game, the inability of the 'powers that be' to ensure that clubs do not spend more than they earn and the willingness of the football authorities to allow clubs to be owned by any Tom, Dick or Harry who turns up with the promise of some cash, never mind their fitness to do so?
 
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