Equality Bill that brings together all the legislation on discrimination from the past 35 years
28 06 08 - 09:05 The equality laws in England and Wales are an impenetrable thicket. There are 35 Acts, 52 statutory instruments, 32 codes of practice and 16 EC directives — 116 pieces in all covering 4,000 pages. If laid end to end, the Equality and Human Rights Commission points out, that would be the length of ten football pitches or height of 243 double-decker buses.This week Harriet Harman, Minister for Women and Equality, will unveil ministers’ plans for a single Equality Bill, bringing together all the legislation on discrimination of the past 35 years — pay, race, disability — and also age and gender orientation.
It is not just a tidying-up Bill. It is hoped that it will create a culture where discrimination on grounds of age, along with disability, religion or sexual orientation, are all on a par with race or sex discrimination.
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you see the face of the modern state: it's racist against pure racist, genderist against specialized genders, ageist against noticing the
obvious trend toward degeneration -- in fact, it's just anti-reality because it would rather keep us all deluded with salesmantalk.
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