UK: David Cameron 'open' to all-women shortlists on eve of reshuffle

Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2014-07-15 21:34

Article here. Excerpt:

'David Cameron is open to the idea of the eventual introduction of all-women shortlists on a voluntary basis, senior Tory sources have said, amid fears that the party could fail to boost its number of female MPs at next year's general election.

On the eve of his final planned reshuffle before the election, in which the prime minister is expected to promote a number of women, the controversial issue of all-women shortlists returns to the agenda as a cross-party group raises the prospect of "prescriptive quotas".
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Cameron hopes that promoting women to important posts at all ranks of his government will show that the Tory party is modernising. But there are fears that the party is falling behind in the selection of women candidates in parliamentary seats.

Amid concerns that Labour and the Liberal Democrats are selecting more women for safe seats, Cameron has put the Conservatives' chairman, Grant Shapps, "on the case" to get more female candidates into winnable seats.'

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Wow. This reminds me of those silly head starts they give to women in marathons, so they can act like they beat their male counterparts, despite the inconvenient fact that the women started around 17 minutes before the men did.

Question: Exactly what problem is solved by bascically handing over many of the "safe" or "winnable" seats in parliament to women?

Answer: Absolutely none (apart from allowing gender ideologues to feel a warm fuzzy feeling inside, that is).

On the other hand, it creates a whole host of problems, not the least of which is having underqualified or unqualified people in government by virtue of their plumbing alone. Gov't is already as screwed up as it can get. No need to add to the problem.

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Submitted by xtrnl on Mon, 2014-07-21 19:49