Friday, July 06, 2012

The Fairminded Cannot Argue.

Meritocracy not tokenism.
From: Godfrey Bloom, UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire (EU Gender & Equality Committee member), Main Street, Wressle, Selby.
IT is unreasonable to blame Jeremy Paxman for his Newsnight roasting of Junior Minister Chloe Smith. The culprit is David Cameron.
His quota system promotes some woman way beyond their experience and competence. This is very noticeable in my “parliament”, when some of the performances from quota cuties of all parties are toe-curlingly bad.
Of course this is also harms talented women who are lumped in with the make-weights.
The sooner we get back to meritocracy, not gender or skin colour, the better.

Prayers of Jane Austen.

The little-known prayers written by Jane Austen. Jane Austen (1775-1817) on engraving from  1873.  (Photo: Getty/iStock) It is now 250 years...