Sunday, August 02, 2009
Harriet Harman
According to the Times "What (Harman) is spouting is rabid nonsense, and morally repugnant".
IMO: Seems all right to me.
The Times says "Firstly, we need the best people to run the country, irrespective of gender."
IMO: But, clearly, we are not going to get them. Politics has to be 'the art of the possible'. And as for the morals of the "Times" or indeed Edwina Currie, surely neither can be taken as advisors for the nation's morals, all we want is fact and fair comment, not rhetoric designed to appease the Murdoch clan.
Apparently Harman will try to ensure that the Labour Party rules are changed in order to determine that one of the two top jobs in the party must always belong to a woman.
IMO: It seems to me that there's no harm in trying. UK is supposed to be a democracy though it is often very hard to construe as one. That would seem to mean that the idea of half the people (women) getting half the top jobs is an idea well worth considering. There are possibly other, even better ways, to run the country but Harman's idea is fair and reasonable. What is more important is to have serious electoral reform, and AV+ and PR are two ideas, abolition of Whips and other ideas also at least worth considering.
IMO: Seems all right to me.
The Times says "Firstly, we need the best people to run the country, irrespective of gender."
IMO: But, clearly, we are not going to get them. Politics has to be 'the art of the possible'. And as for the morals of the "Times" or indeed Edwina Currie, surely neither can be taken as advisors for the nation's morals, all we want is fact and fair comment, not rhetoric designed to appease the Murdoch clan.
Apparently Harman will try to ensure that the Labour Party rules are changed in order to determine that one of the two top jobs in the party must always belong to a woman.
IMO: It seems to me that there's no harm in trying. UK is supposed to be a democracy though it is often very hard to construe as one. That would seem to mean that the idea of half the people (women) getting half the top jobs is an idea well worth considering. There are possibly other, even better ways, to run the country but Harman's idea is fair and reasonable. What is more important is to have serious electoral reform, and AV+ and PR are two ideas, abolition of Whips and other ideas also at least worth considering.
# posted by uv : 10:38 PM
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