Positive discrimination is not equality. Preferential treatment of any group or individual is discrimination, which is supposedly illegal. Today you are discriminated against if you are white, especially male, especially married. If you are any other colour, gender, sexuality, you have a far greater chance these days than an ordinary bloke. This is patently wrong.
I have nothing against everyone being given an equal chance. However, jobs should be given on merit. You want the best person for the job, even if they are purple with green horns. Well, actually these days I should say: even if they arewhite, middle-class, married male. If the best man for the job is a woman/gay/Asian/black/wheelchair-bound, that doesn’t matter. But they must not be given the job on the basis of what “sector” they come from.
Some of the ridiculous things that now count as discrimination, next thing you know all coal-mines will need to have wheelchair access and breast-feeding rooms in case cripples and mothers want to work down there.
Sadly there is no equality. Everyone is different. That is a basic fact of life. I am sick of reading about discrimination, I am sick of reading about women getting massive payouts because someone patted their backside at work. Men at work have always had a laddish culture. Women come into the workplace and expect it all to change to accommodate them. Is that equality? Expecting an entire workforce to make huge adjustments for one employee? For heaven’s sake, why don’t they just use their feminine wiles to get a promotion?
Okay, there is a line to be drawn somewhere. Sexual harassment can and does take place. But the vast majority of supposed sexual harassment is not that at all, it is merely poor stupid men carrying on their laddishness and putting a female employee’s nose out of joint by accident, not as a deliberate bullying tactic.
Oh, I despair. I really do. This country seems to be the only one in the world that implements every directive from Brussels, every idea they can get hold of from America, Australia, anywhere. Anything that might involve passing a new law and causing people more and more problems and difficulty in just simply getting on with their everyday life. This whole equality thing is just another area where normal everyday folk end up criminalised and demonised.
We will not revolt, however, because we are British and have stiff upper lips. We accept these things and try to carry on regardless. But the burden of laws and guidelines is becoming heavier and heavier and at some point we will simply collapse under their weight.
