Brighton Short Breaks considers Brighton and Hove showing its as the most Right On city in the United Kingdomthis week with the fact that it is the first a parliamentary election has gathered an all-female listing of candidates .
20 years after Mrs Thatcher broke governmental territory by becoming the first ever woman Prime Minister the complaint that the vestibules of Westminster are still a macho dominated territory ring just as loudly as ever! So, Brighton and Hove’s total female short list of Parliamentary candidates offers some boost to a future future shift of base in the gender balance in the political power world.
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 hot and bothered about the state of our governmental arena and interested as to the causes for male domination above and beyond the old antecedency that gentlemen should have it all their own way – and its a whole Pandoras box of discussion that is safest left for some other time .
But my intention here today is as – as always – to fly the flag for Brighton and Hove and certify how ahead reasoning and politically sensible our home city is, and having a ratio of men to women in parliament more representative of the population, is in my thought, a pace in the right direction!
