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Voting, Women and Brighton
January 12th, 2010 by admin
Brighton Short Breaks welcomes Brighton and Hove manifesting its self view as the most Right On in the this week with the occurance that it is the first a parliamentary election has discovered an all-female listing of nominees.
20 years after Mrs Thatcher broke governmental conventions by being appointed the first ever female Prime Minister the charge that the lobbies of Westminster are still male dominated ring just as obstreperously as ever! So, Brighton and Hove’s total female short list of Parliamentary nominees feeds some boost to a possible future switch of basis in the sexuality equaliser in the political power domain .
Being cited in The Argus , Fawcett Society chief executive Ceri Goddard said: “If all the candidates are women that is cause for celebration but also concern that it has taken until 2009, whereas all-male elections are still the norm.
“The voters if Brighton can be pleased that whom ever they elect they will be a step closer to closing the gender gap in parliament where currently less than 20% of our MP’s are women – less than Iraq, Afghanistan and Rwanda.”
‘Less than Iraq, Afghanistan and Rwanda……… ‘ – personally that peculiar statement left me slightly embarrassed about the state of our political arena and speculative as to the causes for male supremacy above and beyond the prehistorical antecedency that gentlemen should have it completely their own way – and its a whole Pandoras box of discourse that is safest left for some other place .
But my purpose here today is as – as always – to fly the flag for Brighton and Hove and attest how forward reckoning and politically alive our population is, and having a ratio of men to women in parliament more typical of the population, is in my belief, a stride in the true direction!