Employers would be able to give jobs to women or ethnic minority candidates in preference to other applicants, under the plans unveiled by equalities minister Harriet Harman.
If two candidates were equally qualified for a position, employers would be able to reject the white person or the man in favour of a black person or a woman".
When will the awful politicians like dear Harriet realise the sheer resentment and embitterment that they engender with legislation of this type? - I suspect that they do realise but do not care. Blinkered idealism with the unintended consequence of hardening attitudes against racial minorities.