UK: Honours system quotas to decorate more women and ethnic minorities

Submitted by Proud_to_be_a_man on Sun, 2009-07-12 13:51

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'Quotas have been covertly introduced to the honours system by the Government so that more women and members of ethnic minorities are decorated by the Queen.
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Jilly Cooper, the novelist, who was awarded an OBE in 2004, said: "This is an absolutely fatuous thing. What is the point of this? You can't make 55 per cent women; honours should be awarded on merit.

Mrs Cooper, 72, who is a close friend of the Duchess of Cornwall, added: "Sex should be absolutely irrelevant. What are the other 45 per cent going to be? Guinea pigs, gerbils, horses? I never heard of anything so silly and irrelevant, but it is just typical."'

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