Equality Dumped In Favour Of "Fairness"
A new “Fairness Act” is to be created to prevent discrimination. However, like everyone is not equal, life isn’t fair. People simply aren’t equal: some people are better with numbers, some with words, some with their hands, some with their mouths. Some people are good with children, some are good at having children. And so on, as you get what I mean. And life isn’t fair, and can’t be. No matter what laws are put in place.
One good thing about this “Fairness Act,” however, is that it will sweep away “more than 100 Acts, codes and directives introduced since the Sixties to outlaw prejudice based on race, faith, sex and sexuality… in favour of a single requirement for employees to be treated fairly.” It just goes to show how good our Parliament is at making laws, really. If nothing else.
But - and there’s always a but in these things - the way the new law is to be implemented is to be entirely opposite to the way in which British law is supposed to work. Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, who advised ministers on this new law said:
So instead of saying what we can’t do - and allowing everything else - it is telling us what we are allowed to do, by gracious assent on our Lords and Masters.
The clarification and simplification of the 116 different pieces of equality legislation in to one document is a good idea, but not if they plan to either (a) extend the requirements of “equality”, or (b) just tell us what they will allow us to do.
Life isn’t fair, and people aren’t equal. And that is something that no piece of legislation can possibly allow for. So why not just replace all of these “equality” laws with one sentence: Play nice and don’t be shitty
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