Equality and Diversity Laws, should these be scrapped??

Let's just clarify the issue. She is not proposing the scrapping of E and D laws but of the rules that require public bodies to consider promoting equality in their decisions.

This sounds a lot like the anti-DEI push in the US.

FWIW, the anti-DEI push here has led the Trump administration to investigate a school district for discrimination against white people.

www.denver7.com/news/investigations/u-s-department-of-education-investigating-cherry-creek-schools-for-racially-discriminatory-programming

I hope getting rid of it works out better for you all then it did for us.

Yes, as part of the Doge waste reducing cuts, they got rid of the department looking out for the spread of those flesh eating worms.
An outbreak has occurred, and now Canada is boycotting the purchase of Texan beef.
Not the same as DEI cuts, I do understand, but from the same negative philosophy.

Just in case people don't understand your reference to flesh eating worms

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c936r25grrlo

Thanks MaizieD

All people should be treated fairly, not one section get preferential treatment over another. Then Martin Luther’s dream will become reality where it matters not what the colour of your skin is but what you are inside. EDI doesn’t achieve that and imo makes for more divisiveness plus costing a fortune which could be better spent elsewhere.

E&D (in my opinion) only becomes divisive when not used or applied correctly.

It’s not just about skin colour it’s about levelling the playing field for a whole host of minorities, not just ethnicity.

Positive discrimination has utterly backfired, but that doesn’t mean prejudice and discrimination doesn’t still exist in many areas.

You have to treat people as individuals, that's all.
It shouldn't mean preferential treatmenr, in any way, shape or form.

One example is…. One of my family needs assistance when travelling by train, to get on and off. This right to assistance is enshrined in Equality law. It is bad enough now, the haphazard nature of this help, imagine if there wasn’t a law to make train companies offer it and disabled travellers had to rely on train staff just using common sense!

Replying to MissAdventure…..
. This is ‘preferential treatment’ as not everybody needs assistance to get on and off a train. Are you saying that this should not be allowed?

No, thee exact opposite.

Ensuring every single person has access to public transport is as it shouldd be.
Whether by using ramps, wheeling their chair at certain points, using a hoist, lift, or whatever it takes, is as it should be.

Its public transport, for all members of the public.