Last week I wrote about the proposals to remove section 3 of
the Equality Act and amazingly enough following a defeat in the House of Lords,
the minister in charge, Jo Swinson
announced that she was U-turning. Of course I told my children that this was as
a direct result of my blog post ... but I really wonder why it was possible to
get a change of heart on this from Minsters and not on other issues like cuts in legal advice for discrimination
complainants, the destruction of the National Health service or the Bedroom Tax
to name but a few.
Did it make a difference that the proposals were being
debated in the middle of a series of local authority elections? Did it make a
difference that the removal of section 3 would have potentially had not only
national but international implications. Whatever it is I really wish we could
bottle it.
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