Sex discrimination and all the other unlawful discriminations to become lawful

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...if Reform wins the next general election.
Politics latest: Reform would scrap Equality Act, says Braverman | Politics News | Sky News

Oh aye, & the Human Rights Act, & withdrawal from the ECtHR & the Council of Europe.
Probably NATO too at this rate, Planks, the lot of 'em.

On the one side we have Reform who want to tear it up; on the other we have the Greens, Labour et al promoting gender ideology who want to redefine it and gut it from within.
Two sides of the same coin.

Reform would make it easier for their business mates to treat employees like dirt with impunity.

By not implementing EHRC guidance following supreme court ruling Labour has also de facto overturned the EA2010. Have any Labour members come out to defend it?

It feels to me some laws are already selectively enforced.
A law that doesn't apply to everyone equally isn't a law.

Unfortunately the single sex spaces thing will just be a small part of a tsunami of lost rights if the Equality Act is repealed. Can you imagine how many women won't be offered a job in the first place or will be sacked as soon as they're visibly pregnant, once employers get used to the idea that they can do whatever they want?

And there won't be any need to make "reasonable adjustments" to enable a disabled person to do the job. Employers just won't employ disabled people if non-disabled people are available.

The sad thing is that I think many people would love that. As horrific as that potential future sounds, scrapping the Equality Act would be a vote winner for a certain kind of person.

Aye the shortsighted and stupid.
None of us knows what our futures hold,illness,accident,disability,pregnancy etc.
Eradicate those protections at our peril.
On Disability and ageism a lot of workers wouldn't get a lookin.

Oh heck
Look at Farage's face on OP's post - he thinks he's got a chance????
God help us

Obviously the UK's reputation, or what's left of it after Brexit, Boris Johnson etc, will immediately disappear down the drain. Farage is despised in the EU. He'll get vast bribes for selling the NHS to the Americans, and will bugger off to buy his own island, leaving the UK in ruins. Anyone who can get out will do so. This is such a nightmare scenario I'm tempted to stay in the denial phase for as long as possible.

I think the EA is another victim of TRAs / omni cause campaigning in that many average people might now equate it with the ‘trans’ or being ‘too woke’ issue forgetting that it existed to offer much wider, and greatly needed, protection or women, for older workers, for religious minorities, from discrimination.

Farage is getting increasingly unhinged with his knee jerk anti anything remotely looking woke must go set of policies. If Reform got in, we really would be back to square one fighting for basic rights again.

Our very own baby Trump.

Yep and there are plenty of those. Millions of voters have shown that they are happy to vote against their own interests and the country's.

Keep an eye on the Welsh elections.

Surprised none of the “at least they know what a woman is” posters haven’t popped up to explain why this is ‘a good thing’.

Really? You think that posters who are trying to defend women's rights to single sex spaces would think this is a good thing? Why would you think that?

They may not. In which case I suppose it would be more explaining how you’d rationalise voting for a party that did think it was a good thing just because they also “know what a woman is”.

Theyve gone for "there's no point in the EA anyway because 'the lefties' don't know what a woman is" this time. Keep up!

They are going for the 'old man who sits at home watching GB news and reminiscing of the good old days' vote. Lets hope enough of the rest of us can keep him out.

Young women who have never experienced being discriminated in this way should be very afraid.

And look out for the cabinet complete with female sex workers/porn star lookie likeys - cos that's what they all want us to look like...(see America).

Still not sure I get your point.

Why are you trying so hard to specifically link defenders of women's rights to Reform?

Reform apparently has a lot of support (not sure why myself) so that must mean they are taking votes from all sorts of people with all sorts of beliefs.
Ultimately people vote for a party that most appeals to them, balancing the positives and the negatives in the way that makes sense to them as individuals.

Ultimately most people according to surveys want men to stay out of women's spaces. So of course there will be overlap, but also for example most people think vaccinations are a good thing so there will be people who believe in vaccinations who vote reform. So what?

Its the triumph of experience over hope.
Visit any thread about right wing parties and you will inevitably see posts from people saying 'at least they know what a woman is'.
Unfortunately because parties like Reform and its new off shoot have been very vocal about not supporting TI, very right wing individuals are coming onto threads defending them despite the huge harm they would do to women, and masking this as 'feminism' because 'at least they know what a woman is'.
It's become very noted of late. An example being support for Rupert Lowe as a defender of single sex spaces because he called transgenderism 'filth', yet overlooking his push to get men onto maternity wards.
Because very right wing parties tend to be GC, GC concerns are being used to throw a veil over the other deeply misogynistic and regressive views on women these parties are also promoting.

@5128gap I see what you are saying. It is such a shame that 'the left' have lost the plot so much over women's rights isn't it? In the USA it helped Trump get into power, and it has left many women feeling unable/unhappy to vote Labour / Green / Lib Dem in the UK.

However I think Reform would be bad in so so many ways. I'm hopeful that tactical voting will keep them out of power when the time comes. ie people holding their noses and voting Conservative/Labour/whatever as the most likely to beat Reform in their own constituency.

I’m not “specifically” linking defenders of women’s rights to Reform. I’m asking where those who have already said they will vote Reform (or indeed Restore) are. It’s not that tricky to understand. There are many defenders of women’s rights who wouldn’t go anywhere near Reform, specifically because of the tendency to advocate for policies such as this.

You just need to look at the Daily Mail comments section.
Sexist,racist sewer.
The Daily Mail will highlight immigrant sex crimes and allow comments but generally don't have a comment section for white male sex crimes.
All sex crimes are abhorrent.
Plus a large percentage of extreme far right protestors last summer that were lifted had DV convictions so hardly the protectors of women and children.

I've certainly heard recent conversations amongst senior people (OK men) saying they wished they could appoint only men and older women because mat leave is costly.

I've also supported a young female colleague who was blocked from promotion and threatened with performance measures because she objected to graphic sexual remarks from a senior colleague. Fighting that one was hard even with current legislation.

My mum was fired for being pregnant, way back when. Then had a still birth and no career. Let's not go back