Brighton Short Breaks commends Brighton and Hove establishing its credentials as the most Right On community in the United Kingdomthis week with the fact that it is the first time a parliamentary election has experienced an all-female listing of campaigners.
20 years after Mrs Thatcher broke governmental history by becoming the first ever Prime Minister the charge that the hallways of Westminster are still a male commanded territory ring just as loudly as ever! So, Brighton and Hove’s whole female short list of Parliamentary nominees contributes some encouragement to a likely future exchange of basis in the sexuality proportionality in the political power arena .
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 particular assertion left me somewhat disconcerted about the state of our policy-making arena and inquisitive as to the causes for male domination above and beyond the prehistorical antecedency that gentlemen should have it totally their own way – and its a whole Pandoras box of discourse that is healthiest left for a different .
But my resolve here today is as – as always – to fly the flag for Brighton and Hove and evidence how ahead reckoning and politically awake our home city is, and having a ratio of men to women in parliament more symbolic of the population, is in my thought, a stride in the right direction!