Brighton and Hove – Friend of the Suffragette!
Brighton Short Breaks applauses Brighton and Hove attesting its claim as the most Right On community in the this week with the fact that it is the first occurance a parliamentary election has witnessed an all-female list of campaigners.
20 years after Mrs Thatcher broke governmental history by the first ever Prime Minister the complaint that the vestibules of Westminster are still a masculine hall ring just as loudly as ever! So, Brighton and Hove’s full female short list of Parliamentary nominees generates some boost to a prospective future transfer of soil in the sexuality proportion 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 assertion left me somewhat discomfited about the state of our governmental arena and curious as to the reasons for male domination above and beyond the foregone antecedency that men should have it completely their own way – and its a whole Pandoras box of discourse that is better left for a different time .
But my intent here today is as – as always – to fly the flag for Brighton and Hove and present how forwards reckoning and politically mindful our city is, and having a ratio of men to women in parliament more true of the population, is in my feeling, a stride in the true direction!
