Campaigners call for Theresa May to be removed as Equalities Minister

RT @leftfootfwd: Campaigners call for Theresa May to be removed as Equalities Minister http://bit.ly/djHXEx

like having a banker @ treasury RT @leftfootfwd Campaigners call for Theresa May to be removed as Equalities Minister http://bit.ly/djHXEx

She doesn't know the meaning of equality! RT Campaigners call for Theresa May to be removed as Equalities Minister http://bit.ly/djHXEx

The nasty coalition's new equlities minister: http://bit.ly/djHXEx The Fib Dems must be so proud!

RT @leftfootfwd: Campaigners call for Theresa May to be removed as Equalities Minister http://bit.ly/djHXEx

RT @woodrob: RT @shamikdas: The nasty coalition's new equalities minister: http://bit.ly/djHXEx

http://bit.ly/djHXEx I personally think it's laughable somebody who has voted against so many gay rights should be equalities minister!

http://bit.ly/djHXEx I personally think it's laughable somebody who has voted against so many gay rights should be equalities minister!

RT @leftfootfwd Campaigners call for Theresa May to be removed as Equalities Minister http://bit.ly/djHXEx

RT @leftfootfwd Campaigners call for Theresa May to be removed as Equalities Minister http://bit.ly/djHXEx

Just done my duty and signed the petition! She’s a joke for this role!

Nice to see people judging her on previous actions and not on actions in the post! Personally, I think it’s laughable that people talking about equality are so closed minded themselves!

Is this another example of some people being more ‘equal’ than others? How does it matter what her opinion is? If they appoint a gay minister for e.g., should every heterosexual person then join in protest to say that their rights could be trampled upon? Or if there is a black or a muslim minister, should everyone else then start protesting?

There are enough checks and balances in the system. Give it a rest please. If she does anything wrong, protest..but not before that!

Will

I do think that we should keep a close eye on how May performs in office on these issues (and so I have joined this group).

But were we not in a very similar position with Ruth Kelly?

Blunkett was bloody awful on these issues too.

Isn’t it great to see the Left so comfortable in opposition. The serious business of politics is not run by juvenille, partisan and student union hissy fits via Facebook and Twitter.

Ideally we would dispense with an equalities minister altogether. Sadly, this wretched coalition seems intent on following the same destructive PC path as its socialist predecessor.

well said, visa and simon. This a classic piece of anti-Tory bile dressed up as “opposition”. I just wonder about people who spend their whole lives protesting against something or everything that doesn’t suit their own prejudices. This reeks of crass immaturity and Left wing low brow politics at its very worst.

Please sign this petition to object to the UK's new 'equality' minister – http://cot.ag/chVYu2

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@vi__sa

Appointing a gay minister would not mean they would discriminate against straight people.

Appointing an Equalities Minister who has a record of discriminating against gay people however, might suggest that she will continue to discriminate against gay people.

The photo highlighting her jazzy wellies has been widely used to attack May, focusing on her clothing rather than whats inside her head, as attacks on high profile women tend to do. Seeing this reproduced on a leftie website is a bit sad, really. I’ve sympathetic for the campaign, but if it’s going to be conducted with this level of hypocracy, I’m not interested.

RT @leftfootfwd: Campaigners call for Theresa May to be removed as Equalities Minister http://bit.ly/djHXEx

RT @leftfootfwd: Campaigners call for Theresa May to be removed as Equalities Minister http://bit.ly/djHXEx

RT @leftfootfwd: Campaigners call for Theresa May to be removed as Equalities Minister http://bit.ly/djHXEx

RT @shamikdas: The nasty coalition's new equalities minister: http://bit.ly/djHXEx

RT @leftfootfwd: Campaigners call for Theresa May to be removed as Equalities Minister http://bit.ly/djHXEx

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ck_85 – if she alone has the power to decide policies, why do they have votes in Parliament? Wonder why she bothered voting against anything if the Minister in charge was going to make their decision based on personal opinion anyway! Something wrong with your argument there.

Labour have massively raised the bar for what might prompt a ministerial resignation.

Wonder if the new administration will be so lenient on their ministers as the last one…….

Has she discriminated against gays by voting to her feelings? She may not agree with it, but that’s different to discriminating against it.

If she’d been arrested for homophobic abuse it’d be different. And were these free or whipped votes?

@Shamik

“Fib Dems”……. they are fellow “progressives” – are you supposed to be slagging them off – or is this a Labour blog?

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Before her resignation is sought…is there anyone better?

Just a thought.

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RT @annaarrowsmith: Agreed: RT: @HouseofTwits RT @leftfootfwd Campaigners call for Theresa May to be removed as Equalities Minister http://bit.ly/djHXEx

RT @leftfootfwd: Campaigners call for Theresa May to be removed as Equalities Minister http://bit.ly/djHXEx

The votes were all years ago. Let’s judge her on what she does now.

If I remember correctly the Tories had a three line whip to vote against the repeal of section 28, so you can’t hold that against her. Labour was forced to impose a whip on their own MPs to vote for it’s repeal because not all Labour MPs were against s28.

Also, I remeber loads of Muslims being against the repeal. Now who rights come first? In those times it was gays. In these times its Muslims. Are you going to demonise all Muslims for being homophobic, because if not then you are being hypocrtical.

The result of your policies is that every group must have protection. You then get the situation where different groups have competing rights. Who wins? The best solution is to have a free society where anyone can say anything even if it offends, but in return they might find themselves offended. An open society is one where you have the right to be offended.

Oh and you stupid lot, Theresa May is the Home Office Minister not Equality Minister.

It’s now been announced that the Equality Minister is Lib Dem Lynne Featherston. And don’t crow that your Facebook campaign made it happen as TM was never Equality Minister to have it taken from her.

RT @leftfootfwd: Campaigners call for Theresa May to be removed as Equalities Minister http://bit.ly/djHXEx

@SadButMadLad: Theresa May was appointed “Home Secretary and Minister for Women and Equality” and her own website http://www.tmay.co.uk/ still has this title. She defended her selection as equalities minister on Channel 4, as reported at http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/05/13/theresa-may-promises-defends-equalities-role/ : “Certainly there were some votes I wasn’t present for. But what we intend to do in government is taking forward an agenda on equalities across the whole range of equalities.”

So she clearly was made equalities minister. Yet the Mail today reports it’s Lynne Featherstone http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1278433/New-equalities-minister-Lib-Dem-Lynne-Featherstone-hits-male-pale-party-negotiators.html?ITO=1490 – so either there are two equalities ministers, or they’ve switched, in which case the Facebook campaign may well have had an effect.

[...] the age of consent in homosexual relationships to 16 and voted against gay adoption rights. A Facebook campaign is already seeking her removal. You wonder why Mr Cameron even [...]

Do we have a new Equalities Minister (Teresa May) who doesn't actually believe in equal rights for gay people? http://bit.ly/c1S3h8

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She didn’t vote against section 28, she was absent from parliament. Make of that what you will, but telling outright lies on a blog that claims to be ‘evidence-based’ is laughable.

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[...] the UK, Theresa May, who has a record of voting for institutional homophobia has been made EQUALITY minister. Politics is fucked up, yes [...]

@DanteHarker I don't think our new "Equalities" Minister is any better… http://bit.ly/bSqMuV

@karljinx I know it's shocking http://bit.ly/bSqMuV homophobia still seems to be an acceptable form of discrimination for many.