Brighton Short Breaks recognises Brighton and Hove establishing its credentials as the most Right On community in the United Kingdomthis week with the occurance that it is the first time a parliamentary election has realized an all-female listing of candidates .
20 years after Mrs Thatcher broke political conventions by being appointed the first ever woman Prime Minister the complaint that the halls of Westminster are still a masculine mastered area ring just as aloud as ever! So, Brighton and Hove’s all-out female short list of Parliamentary prospects renders some encouragement to a potential future shift of soil in the sexuality equaliser in the political power domain .
Being quoted 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 chagrined about the state of our political arena and inquisitive as to the grounds for male mastery above and beyond the bygone antecedency that men should have it entirely their own way – and its a whole Pandoras box of discourse that is nicest left for a different .
But my role here today is as – as always – to fly the flag for Brighton and Hove and show how advanced reasoning and politically alive our city is, and having a ratio of men to women in parliament more symbolic of the population, is in my opinion, a whole step in the true direction!
