No British - No Women

[MrSpoc]

I have just come across this article:

www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Huntingdon-St-Ives-St-Neots/Playgroup...

am i being unreasonable to be disgusted at how this can be legal.

purepurple No it's not pointless! They can be intergrated up to their eyeballs, but that doesn't take their original nationality away from them.

I just don't understand what the issue is...letting a bunch of women who are not British find common ground with eachother, which a girl of "mixed race" being excused (she obviously told them what "her parents were"). If you don't like it, then go somewhere else. I just can't see the issue.

LadyOftheManor, it looks like some government ministers have no trouble seeing the issue.

That's because they're arseholes.

"purepurple is right. This is about taxpayers' money, meant for the benefit of the entire community. The ministers are saying that this is divisive."

This is about a grand of taxpayers' money being spent to make people feel happier about themselves. Is it REALLY such a big deal?

No doubt it's about a "principle" though.

scurryfunge - please read the more recent DM Article. even Tory ministers are saying it is racist.

Also this have FA to do with minority or majority. it is about British people being disctriminated in their own country.

If you walked into tesco and you had blonde hair and Tesco turned you away because of that. would you say are well there are plenty more supermarkets that cater to the majority so ill pop their. or will you be royally pissed?

If it's taxpayer's money then everyone in the community should be welcome. They can have their exclusive club if they fund it themselves.

LadyOfTheManor you speak sense.

Frankly, being at odds with the current British government is no proof that someone is in the wrong! I might say quite the opposite in fact, but that might just be a little too flippant!

The majority of the British public voted these good officers in to represent the people. It seems they thought the progressives better fitted your description.

It is a terrible idea, and divisive in terms of mixing with the local community. Why wouldn't foreign mothers want to meet British ones? I take it they have chosen to come to Britain?
It is bizarre that every nationality is allowed apart from British women and children, and imo that is outrageous.

exactly FranSanDisco. It is about use of public money.

I went to a toddler group where the majority of mums were white, many middle class older mums - i can imagine a teenage mum from a poorer area would feel totally out her depth and would have little in common with the other mums so i can see it there is a need for young girls to get together for support and friendship - this idea of foreign women getting together is sort of similar, IMO.

LadyOftheManor - surely the issue is that no-one is above the law in this country, and that organisations that receive public monies in particular should comply with the applicable legislation?

Why on earth would a lack of British women help these people feel good about themselves?
What an odd thing to say

But 'foreign' spans the whol rest of the world- not a mass monoculture

FranSanDisco you make a good point.

'This is about a grand of taxpayers' money being spent to make people feel happier about themselves. Is it REALLY such a big deal?
No doubt it's about a "principle" though.'

It's about principle. "Meeting Links" is unlikely to be the only organisation of this type. I am sure similar ones were started under New Labour.

TBH this thread has sort of proven the point for this group. When too many braying, know it all British women get together - they can be intimidating and domineering.

"It is a terrible idea, and divisive in terms of mixing with the local community. Why wouldn't foreign mothers want to meet British ones? I take it they have chosen to come to Britain?"

I imagine that, in the vast majority of cases, they meet British people every bloody day, seven days a week. I cannot see why so many danders are up that the Council funds them to the tune of a grand to have a couple of hours off from that.

I note that Posie picked up my example of the monolingual playgroup, but no one has a view on the concept of a graduate and marture students club, actively discouraging "normal" undergraduates from attending, at a university (funded by said university.) Is that so massively different and, if not, is that wrong too?

What makes you think everyone on this thread is British?
And 'braying' 'intimidating' 'domineering'
not me dear
I fear you have a self loathing issue

I think it's an absolute disgrace. Yet more misguided PC from councils haemorrhaging money. Any group which bans groups of people for no good reason have a lot to answer for.

Re the gender thing - there are a few male groups in my area at the weekend which I am banned from despite the fact that I am a full time working mum and my DH is a SAHD! What crap!

And most "foreign" mums acquire bristish nationality so how exactly are they discriminating between british and non british people. I bet you I would be allowed in because I am not white - but was born and raised in UK.

It is not funded by the council, and there are other groups for undegraduates. I presume the postgraduate group doesn't use public money to discriminate against British born postgrads?

A couple of hours off from British people?
This is laughable,and ever so silly. I have lived in a few countries in different parts of the world. I have never felt the need to get a couple of hours off' with other women who are from anywhere else in the world apart from the place welived in.

Though I imagine that if your wife is 'foreign' she may need a couple of hours a day away from you

"It's about principle. "Meeting Links" is unlikely to be the only organisation of this type. I am sure similar ones were started under New Labour."

Of course it's about principle - and what a vital principle it is! We absolutely MUST NOT spend money on making foreigners happy, especially if it was New Labour's idea. If we do, it will be an open invitation to hate Britain and international communism will rise up like a mighty leviathan.