Vocal Voices

MPs want a law to make sure that 45% of the parliamentary candidates from any party are women. The reason being that women make up half the population.

"If the Commons is serious about being truly representative of the people that it seeks to represent, it must rise to the challenge of being a world leader on women's parliamentary representation."

Well if we follow that logic should there not be minimums for blacks, Asian, Catholics, Muslims, left-handers, homosexuals (both genders), tall, short, fat or thin?

I have this novel idea for them to consider: the best person for the job becomes the candidate. If that happens to be a black left-handed lesbian then she gets chosen.

Of course getting to be a candidate is one thing, getting enough votes to win a seat is another. Maybe the MPs have plans to make a vote for a woman worth more than for a man, just to make sure. The formula would have to be different for each constituency and the number of votes cast, but I am sure they can come up with something to get 45% of all MPs women, regardless of how good, bad or indifferent they are, into the Commons.

Then we could wind up with what the Met Police had where they couldn't fill the quotas. Great, not enough MP's to contest the seats, fantastic when we can't fill them let's have a lottery and hand it to the first woman (it won't be short of men), that stands up...

Whilst we're being stupid about it.

You did miss one part of your list. Criminals are sadly under-represented in Parliament. Well at least those who were caught that is.

I read this latest piece of idiocy with my stoic resignation which I faced all the Army idiocy I had to live with during my service career.

Mind you they have something else to talk about now. Corbyn's "maximum wage"! I wonder when people will finally figure out who he really is? Much more fun than "quotas" for women MP's.