Reform accused of ‘pitching for votes of misogynists and homophobes’ with plans to scrap Equality Act
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/reform-nigel-farage-equality-act-suella-braverman-b2922163.html
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Reform accused of ‘pitching for votes of misogynists and homophobes’ with plans to scrap Equality Act
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/reform-nigel-farage-equality-act-suella-braverman-b2922163.html
Posted by Hour-Clothes789
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In other news, the Green party has been accused of pitching for votes of environmentalists.
Oh I thought they were going for the vote of nice people! My mistake!
Whoever thinks scrapping the equality act is not somebody I wanna be friends with
Ugh why is it always terrible people who want to be in charge 😩
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If you want to know what their manifesto is, check what trump’s is, you’ll find it’s the same, vote for reform and you’re voting for the UK to become a vassal state of America, after all that he said about Britain getting it’s sovereignty back from the EU.lol
Wait, I thought they liked the Equality Act now the Supreme Court decided it’s transphobic?
Yeah scrap it and fuck everybody that isn’t white men
The Reform leader admires Putin. He also is best buddies with trump.
Just for the really hard of thinking who don’t understand what this means, the equalities act ensures that if you’re in a wheelchair you get legally mandated access to ramps. It means if you’re blind, businesses have to give you documentation in braille. It means if you fall pregnant, you cannot be sacked.
If you think those things (and everything else in the act) aren’t worth fighting for and saving, then you are an idiot.
I’ve recently heard waters wet and farage is a poor man’s goebbels
Maybe try to understand the oppositions perspective instead of just making assumptions because you dont like them.
The idea is that employers are scared to get rid of a shit worker because they will pull out the discrimination card, this happens all the time, and so shit workers stay and bring the company down preventing growth and other hard workers the opportunity.
Also, it is about the fact that we should all have the same protections, not just specific groups of people. No one should be discriminated against at all. Not if you’re fat, not if you’re short, not if someone just doesnt like you for no apparent reason, we should all be able to be free from discrimination but theres only protection for certain groups. It should be a blanket anti discrimination policy, not just for some.
Similar to a ‘hate crime’, why does that convey stronger punishment, all violent crimes are hateful regardless of the reason, whether you’re in a ‘protected’ group or not.
Now if you disagree with that then fine, but disagree with the truth and not just on incorrect assumptions that this is homophonic or whatever. The perspective is actaully for equality, not against, even if you disagree that this opinion supports equality.
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Ignoring the fact he wasn’t debanked because of political views, it’s somewhat hypocritical to be pissed at idea of being discriminated against because of politics views the. Say you will allow it.
It also helps protect women, especially pregnant women. Apparently we no longer care about those either.
Always fucking divide divide divide with them. Trying to make the UK more miserable.
It’s the Equality Act that protects everyone with so-called “gender critical” beliefs. Now what?
Reform is imported Americanism. Remember that they ran on ‘getting rid of dea’ in council elections before finding there was no dea to get rid of when they got in. They’re bringing in maga buzzwords because they know people are eating that up and getting rid of the equality act is just another step along that path.
People need to learn this and they need to talk to people in America about job security, work life balance, which Farage has actively spoken about people being too attached to, and being billed from the moment they’re in the ambulance if something goes wrong because it’s all run off of insurance.
So lets say they do scrap the Equality Act. Does that mean in a hypothetical scenario that an employer could go in the next day and sack a disabled employee for no particular reason or is there still protection in place?
I swear to god if we vote away our human rights away after all the rights we lost due to Brexit, I think I might lose hope
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How can Suella Braverman support the concept of a society based on “excellence not mediocrity?” She’s the dictionary definition of mediocrity.
Really gotta ask who (that people in reform know) will benefit from this that its a goal of the party.
I don’t understand those who want to vote for such selfish and revolting people. How can you look at yourself in the mirror if you support this? A woman of colour campaigning on repealing an act that protects the marginalised; the fucking irony.
Wannabe trumpty dumpties, for their next batshit crazy trick they’ll probably try and convince you that jimmy saville was a great guy and they wish he was still alive so they could all party together!!!
After all, farage will put any pedo up on a pedestal for a small price, what would he be willing to do for a bigger cut of the pie.
There’s no excuse for wanting to remove the equality act but I welcome a Reformer to explain it to me
Soon sex discrimination will be legal again. Maybe Braverman will be happy when she earns less than her male Reform colleagues
“Addressing the conference, she said Reform would repeal the Equality Act on day one if it wins the next election, claiming that Britain is being “ripped apart by diversity, equality and inclusion” policies.”
Is it? I thought it was ripped apart by the party you were previously a member of?
This isn’t helping with those thoughts about Reform voters being utter Christmas-voting turkeys.
Beyond stupid.
Misogynists, homophobes, *and* *cunts*.
Never ignore the cunt vote.
The equalities act effectively gives judges the power to tell private companies how much they should pay their staff. Massive overreach and it must go. The fact that these things get bundled in with good things e.g. disability ramps is just to trick people into supporting a state power grab. Scrap it and make better laws.
The party of “fuck everyone who isn’t a rich white dude” wants to do something that fucks over everyone who isn’t a rich white dude?
Well colour me surprised.
This is just weird, there’s nothing in the Equality Act that most people would object to, is there? Apart from the current interpretation of sex that makes things hard for trans women, but I doubt that is Reform’s motivation.
There have been some ridiculous over-reaches based on equality law (the Birmingham dinner ladies vs bin men and the like being the worst ones I can think of), but that’s related to judicial over-interpretation rather than the Act itself.
The party funded by foreign governments and ran by traitors isn’t full of good people? no way