- Harman's dogma is the last thing we need
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Harriet Harman: her
At the sunniest of times for the economy, Harriet Harman's plans to impose yet more red tape on businesses would be wildly misguided.
In these dark days of recession, they are little short of madness.
Indeed, if Labour's deputy leader had set out deliberately to impoverish families, destroy jobs and sabotage companies on the brink of collapse, she could hardly have come up with a more effective measure than her Equality Bill.
How can she think it right, at this of all times, to put statutory pressure on employers to discriminate against men (on whom, in the real world, most families depend as the principal breadwinners)?
What conceivable sense does it make to require firms to waste time and money compiling 'gender audits' of how much they pay men and women - and then to punish or reward them with public contracts on the basis of the largely meaningless figures they reveal?
TODAY'S POLL
Should equality laws discriminate against men?
Yes No VOTE POLL RESULTS
Should equality laws discriminate against men?
Yes
5%No
95%Thank you for voting Close All polls Click to view yesterday's poll results Like Alistair Darling with his super-tax on high earners, Ms Harman is sending out a signal that Britain is hostile to free enterprise, and woe betide anyone who is tempted to invest here.
How's that supposed to help women, the ethnic minorities - or anybody else in search of a job?
As for her plan to give public bodies a legal duty to distribute their services according to people's class, this is just a licence for Left-wing ideologues to distort spending decisions for political ends.
In short, while the economy crumbles, Ms Harman is blindly pursuing an agenda of outdated feminism and class warfare as if nothing has changed since the 1970s.
If her destructive Bill becomes law, one of the first jobs of the next government will be to repeal it.
More...EDWINA CURRIE: Equality is fine, but this absurd bill will be a disaster for women and Britain
HARRY PHIBBS: Harman's crazy class war law will make us ALL poorer
MELANIE PHILLIPS: Labour is blasting Britain back to the dark ages
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: All aboard Labour's dustcart to oblivion
Two cheers for StrawFor years, the Mail has campaigned to lift the veil of secrecy over our family courts, which prevents the public from knowing about some of the most sensitive decisions judges are called upon to make.
Two cheers, then, for Justice Secretary Jack Straw's new rules, under which journalists are finally allowed to observe cases involving divorce, child custody and the protection of children at risk.
But, for the moment at least, that third cheer will have to wait.
For judges are still forbidding journalists from actually reporting details of cases involving children.
Yes, of course it's vital to protect children's anonymity. But isn't it equally important that incompetent or overzealous social workers should be denied the protection of secrecy when they refuse parents access to their children without the best of reasons?
To his credit, Mr Straw acknowledges that admitting journalists is only a first step, saying he will bring in new laws to clear the barriers to openness as soon as parliamentary time allows.
When that day comes, he will earn his third cheer.
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Congratulations to British Airways on an imaginative initiative to help pull small and medium-sized companies through the recession.
By offering free flights worth £15million to business travellers in search of overseas markets, the airline is showing that it's not just up to the Government to fight the battle for economic recovery.
We're all in this together - and any practical help that the big boys can offer to smaller companies, the lifeblood of our economy, is hugely welcome.
It makes sound business sense, too. For the sooner the recession is over, the better it will be for everyone - BA included.
Are any other large firms listening?
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Newest Oldest Best rated Worst rated View all I work hard, I'm good at my job and I'm an honest and loyal employee. Unlike Hariet Harman, I am perfectly able to hold my own in the workplace through ability alone. I resent second rate candidates getting a position purely because their personal circumstances ticks a few boxes. It's patronising, unfair and deeply offensive.
I also resent women in the same job but working fewer hours than me "earning" an equal salary. They chose to have children, just like I chose not to. I'm fed up with having to give up my time to cover their absences (school plays, etc) or their benefit credits through my taxes.
Surely in these days of over crowding and the strain on public rescources, it's the child-free who should be financially rewarded?
- Karen, Midlands England, 28/4/2009 15:42
Click to rate Rating 1 This dreadful socialist is proof that the 'Peter Principle' is alive and well in the lying labour government.
Each time this Harridan opens her mouth, out pours another piece of sexist, racist, and discriminatory legislation. We all know she's a man-hating feminist troublemaker, so why does Gordon endure her bile and dig a deeper hole for himself and this government of idiots!?.......because he's just as stupid as the rest of them.
Labour are a lost cause, go NOW Gordon and save us the pain.
- Carl, Lancs, UK, 28/4/2009 14:36
Click to rate Rating 3 We really ought to get this idiotic fool out of our politics.
- Arturo, Loughborough, 28/4/2009 14:02
Click to rate Rating 2 She has to go!!!
- nigel ace, clevedon, 28/4/2009 13:11
Click to rate Rating 2 Your not quite right in the comment about not needing more of Harman's dogma! What we actually need is no Harman at all.
- Mike, Bromsgrove, 28/4/2009 12:23
Click to rate Rating 3 The problem with Brown and his acolytes is they mistake activity for action and caution for inaction. With all these wacky initiatives the Brown bedlamites are seeking to achieve 2 objectives: 1 Distractionfrom the iniquitous mess their failed policies ahve got us into and 2. Self-aggrandisement for their time in opposition or when the slime away from politics into a speaking role or a greasy seat on a board as a non-exec...shame on them all
- Richard Elmes, Swindon, UK, 28/4/2009 12:19
Click to rate Rating 3
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Harriet Harman: her
At the sunniest of times for the economy, Harriet Harman's plans to impose yet more red tape on businesses would be wildly misguided.
In these dark days of recession, they are little short of madness.
Indeed, if Labour's deputy leader had set out deliberately to impoverish families, destroy jobs and sabotage companies on the brink of collapse, she could hardly have come up with a more effective measure than her Equality Bill.
How can she think it right, at this of all times, to put statutory pressure on employers to discriminate against men (on whom, in the real world, most families depend as the principal breadwinners)?
What conceivable sense does it make to require firms to waste time and money compiling 'gender audits' of how much they pay men and women - and then to punish or reward them with public contracts on the basis of the largely meaningless figures they reveal?
TODAY'S POLL
Should equality laws discriminate against men?
Yes No VOTE POLL RESULTS
Should equality laws discriminate against men?
Yes
5%No
95%Thank you for voting Close All polls Click to view yesterday's poll results Like Alistair Darling with his super-tax on high earners, Ms Harman is sending out a signal that Britain is hostile to free enterprise, and woe betide anyone who is tempted to invest here.
How's that supposed to help women, the ethnic minorities - or anybody else in search of a job?
As for her plan to give public bodies a legal duty to distribute their services according to people's class, this is just a licence for Left-wing ideologues to distort spending decisions for political ends.
In short, while the economy crumbles, Ms Harman is blindly pursuing an agenda of outdated feminism and class warfare as if nothing has changed since the 1970s.
If her destructive Bill becomes law, one of the first jobs of the next government will be to repeal it.
More...EDWINA CURRIE: Equality is fine, but this absurd bill will be a disaster for women and Britain
HARRY PHIBBS: Harman's crazy class war law will make us ALL poorer
MELANIE PHILLIPS: Labour is blasting Britain back to the dark ages
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: All aboard Labour's dustcart to oblivion
Two cheers for StrawFor years, the Mail has campaigned to lift the veil of secrecy over our family courts, which prevents the public from knowing about some of the most sensitive decisions judges are called upon to make.
Two cheers, then, for Justice Secretary Jack Straw's new rules, under which journalists are finally allowed to observe cases involving divorce, child custody and the protection of children at risk.
But, for the moment at least, that third cheer will have to wait.
For judges are still forbidding journalists from actually reporting details of cases involving children.
Yes, of course it's vital to protect children's anonymity. But isn't it equally important that incompetent or overzealous social workers should be denied the protection of secrecy when they refuse parents access to their children without the best of reasons?
To his credit, Mr Straw acknowledges that admitting journalists is only a first step, saying he will bring in new laws to clear the barriers to openness as soon as parliamentary time allows.
When that day comes, he will earn his third cheer.
More from Daily Mail Comment... MAIL COMMENT: BA is flying the flag to help the British economy 27/04/09 MAIL COMMENT: The right diagnosis, now for the medicine 26/04/09 DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Taxpayers will be sharing the pain to fund public pensions 26/04/09 MAIL COMMENT: Gurkhas betrayed by treacherous ministers 24/04/09 DAILY MAIL COMMENT: The deadly mistake of 24-hour drinking 23/04/09 DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Dirty tricks part II: The SATS scandal goes even further 23/04/09 DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Now for the true test of Mr Cameron's courage 23/04/09 MAIL COMMENT: The poisoned chalice of a blinkered, election-chasing Chancellor 23/04/09 VIEW FULL ARCHIVE Flying the flag
Congratulations to British Airways on an imaginative initiative to help pull small and medium-sized companies through the recession.
By offering free flights worth £15million to business travellers in search of overseas markets, the airline is showing that it's not just up to the Government to fight the battle for economic recovery.
We're all in this together - and any practical help that the big boys can offer to smaller companies, the lifeblood of our economy, is hugely welcome.
It makes sound business sense, too. For the sooner the recession is over, the better it will be for everyone - BA included.
Are any other large firms listening?
Print this article Read later Email to a friend Share this article: Digg it Del.icio.us Reddit Newsvine Nowpublic StumbleUpon Facebook MySpace Fark Add your comments Comments (11)Here's what readers have had to say so far. Why not add your thoughts below, or debate this issue live on our message boards.
Newest Oldest Best rated Worst rated View all I work hard, I'm good at my job and I'm an honest and loyal employee. Unlike Hariet Harman, I am perfectly able to hold my own in the workplace through ability alone. I resent second rate candidates getting a position purely because their personal circumstances ticks a few boxes. It's patronising, unfair and deeply offensive.
I also resent women in the same job but working fewer hours than me "earning" an equal salary. They chose to have children, just like I chose not to. I'm fed up with having to give up my time to cover their absences (school plays, etc) or their benefit credits through my taxes.
Surely in these days of over crowding and the strain on public rescources, it's the child-free who should be financially rewarded?
- Karen, Midlands England, 28/4/2009 15:42
Click to rate Rating 1 This dreadful socialist is proof that the 'Peter Principle' is alive and well in the lying labour government.
Each time this Harridan opens her mouth, out pours another piece of sexist, racist, and discriminatory legislation. We all know she's a man-hating feminist troublemaker, so why does Gordon endure her bile and dig a deeper hole for himself and this government of idiots!?.......because he's just as stupid as the rest of them.
Labour are a lost cause, go NOW Gordon and save us the pain.
- Carl, Lancs, UK, 28/4/2009 14:36
Click to rate Rating 3 We really ought to get this idiotic fool out of our politics.
- Arturo, Loughborough, 28/4/2009 14:02
Click to rate Rating 2 She has to go!!!
- nigel ace, clevedon, 28/4/2009 13:11
Click to rate Rating 2 Your not quite right in the comment about not needing more of Harman's dogma! What we actually need is no Harman at all.
- Mike, Bromsgrove, 28/4/2009 12:23
Click to rate Rating 3 The problem with Brown and his acolytes is they mistake activity for action and caution for inaction. With all these wacky initiatives the Brown bedlamites are seeking to achieve 2 objectives: 1 Distractionfrom the iniquitous mess their failed policies ahve got us into and 2. Self-aggrandisement for their time in opposition or when the slime away from politics into a speaking role or a greasy seat on a board as a non-exec...shame on them all
- Richard Elmes, Swindon, UK, 28/4/2009 12:19
Click to rate Rating 3
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