The Discrimination Business

Many have an innate dislike of anti-discrimination and equality legislation not only because they object to being considered other than reasonable in all their dealings with other people but because they hate being lectured to by those who have a holier than thou attitude. These decent, ordinary  people cannot see the necessity for any of the legislation anyway and over the last few years of the last Labour government had the distinct impression that all Labour was doing was setting up a whole industry that would become a client group and always vote for it. It seems though that when Mr Gove decided to axe Labour plans to build, rebuild and refurbish schools he failed to discharge relevant statutory equality duties under the Sex Discrimination Act, the Race Relations Act and the Disability Discrimination Act according to Mr Justice Holman who has ordered Mr Gove to reconsider his decision after giving the 6 councils which sought judicial revue reasonable opportunity to make representations. You could not invent such a scenario. There has to be something seriously wrong with the legislation that it can be used to this end. How irresponsible also of the 6 councils to bring this action for judicial revue. The money wasted on this political exercise, for that is all it can be, would be better spent on front line services which, again for political reasons, these councils are no doubt cutting rather than their own bloated payrolls. May they and their like rot in hell.