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UK NEWS
DIANE ABBOTT: PROTECT WOMEN AND BLACK WORKERS FROM JOB CUTS
Diane Abbott called for black public-sector workers to be shielded from job cuts
Wednesday September 15,2010
By Macer Hall, Political Editor
LABOUR leader candidate Diane Abbott was plunged into a new race storm last night after calling for black public-sector workers to be shielded from job cuts.
The Left-wing MP claimed ethnic background and gender should be considered when drawing up hit-lists for redundancy in the Government’s austerity drive.
But that sparked fury with critics warning that putting white men at the front of the queue for the sack risked inflaming racial tensions.
Miss Abbott’s outburst came as the increasingly hard-fought Labour leadership battle nears its climax.
She told Radio 4’s Today programme: “Black people and ethnic minorities are predominantly employed in the public sector, particularly women.
“My concern is that the progress black and ethnic minority workers have made in employment is relatively recent and if there have to be big cuts, it will be ‘last in, first out’.
“These cuts will fall disproportionately not just on women but on black and ethnic minority workers. I think that could lead to a degree of instability.” Asked what action she would like, Ms Abbott said: “You could make local authorities, Government, quangos mindful by making them monitor the gender and ethnic distribution of people losing jobs.
“The public sector cuts have the potential to set back race relations and black and ethnic minority communities by a generation.”
Critics last night warned that measures to protect certain workers from redundancy on the basis of their skin colour or sex was bound to breed resentment and undermine race relations. Tory Philip Davies, MP for Shipley, said: “This is the sort of politically-correct garbage Diane Abbott has become famous for.
“The people who are really racist are those who see everything in terms of race. The same is true about sexism. When it comes to cuts, authorities should be colour blind and gender blind. The people doing worthwhile jobs should stay and those who are not should go.”
He added: “This kind of claptrap is manna from heaven for extremists like the British National Party.” Ms Abbott is battling to avoid coming last in the race to succeed Gordon Brown as Labour leader.
Her campaign, built on opposing controls on immigration and calling for Britain’s nuclear deterrent to be scrapped, has been pitched to appeal to the Party’s hard-Left socialist activists.
Last night, an opinion poll showed just eight per cent of Labour-leaning voters want Ms Abbott as leader.
The ComRes survey, conducted among 1,500 people who have voted Labour at least once since 1992, made David Miliband the favoured candidate with 26 per cent.
Earlier this year, Ms Abbott clashed with broadcaster Andrew Neil when she defended her decision to send her son to £12,700-a- year school despite her opposition to private education by saying: “West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.”
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Answer by The Patriot
To be fair to her, her views are at times misrepresented. But at other times, they are not.
For example, her views that people should not send their kids to private school, and then sending her own kids there. She has never answered that one for me in a manner where she admits that she was wrong to say what she did.
What she wants with the article above is to ensure that non-whites are not unfairly discriminated against when it comes to job losses. But what it sounds like is positive discrimination, which panders to racists.
Which is why I think that she should not be the leader of the Labour Party. Ever.
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