Further snippets about government

[jack]

Equalities Minister

Many people were horrified to see that Theresa May is Equalities Minister as an adjunct to Home Secretary, despite having a voting record of unsympathy to gay rights. Somebody pointed out that if you make the uncomfortable compromise that you would prefer to have a woman in the role, there was not much choice of excellent candidates. But I was puzzled that Equality was given to a conservative minister. Although there are conservative MPs with excellent equality opinions, the party is a bit divided on the question, whereas in the Con/Lib alliance, it seems like an obvious are of responsibility. Well, apparently that is what they did do, and the Under Secretary of State for Equalities is a LibDem who is personally definitively in favour of gay equality.

Repeal of half a dozen gigantically terrible civil liberty violations

Wow. It still remains to see if this is legislated, but in short, the majority of ill-thought-out terrible civil-liberty violating legislation people rant about is on the table for being axed. Which, whatever else I may think of the political parties, is a very good thing for the coalition!

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[katieastrophe]

Fortunately, whilst May is equalities minister, she has a junior to actually do that work for her, and that junior is the ever-so-wonderful Lynne Featherstone.

[jack]

That was the point of the link at the end; it's what made me post it, but perhaps I nested by sentences too heavily and didn't actually manage to say what I MEANT to say :)