Closed. The boat sank, the sharks won.

June 25, 2007

So, there is a new Deputy Labour Leader.

Filed under: Uncategorized

Hi Harriet! emoticon Now, I don’t know much about her so I went a-googling.

This is her site! Seems very family friendly. Couple of quotes from that site:

To prevent Labour having all-male shadow cabinets, Harriet campaigned for places to be reserved for women in the shadow cabinet. In 1989, 3 places for women were added.

Harriet fought for more Labour women MPs through ‘women-only shortlists’. The 1993 Labour Party Conference introduced the rule for ‘women-only shortlists’ in 50% of all target seats. This policy led to the election of 101 Labour women MPs in 1997.

Both from the about Harriet page. Interestingly she appears to have been instrumental iin: National Minimum Wage, longer maternity leave and higher maternity pay, and others…

I particularly like this:

She led a drive within Government to make tackling domestic violence a priority. The successful campaign led to a new law - the Domestic Violence Crime and Victims Act, the introduction of a new team of specialist prosecutors to ensure more effective prosecutions for domestic violence and a new network of 60 specialist domestic violence courts.

I’m kinda liking what I see there but tinged with my usual suspicion of politics.

Get free blog up and running in minutes with Blogsome
Theme designed by Jay of onefinejay.com