Trevor Phillips IN or OUT?
Discussion
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/art...
I did hear when the EHRC were set up that there would be infighting as each of the groups ( Age, Sexual orientation, Gender, Race, Disability, Faith) fights for ther share of the political pie and it looks like it is happening.
Personally I think Phillips was doing the right thing in trying to get people to see the common ground and no drive wedges between groups. I thought the idea of having a Chair of such quangos was to give it direction but it seems that unless he consults with every pressure group before he opens his mouth with an opinion his management style is criticised.
Looks like it was a bit of 'jobs for the favoured few' when they made people redundant and then re-employed them but that looks like a side issue for me.
The key thing is what the Chair is there for? And why the sub-groups feel the need to undermine the organisation to further their own particular group causes. As it gets bigger there is no way these 'rights' groups within the EHRC can continue to call the tune as to what the organisation is doing and saying. It is a bit like a growing family business where the original family members want to continue to do things their way and get things they want for themselves, when the new boss wants to run it like a proper business and take the helm.
I think he is right to pull the race card because whoever is in charge unless they are belong to all of the fighting ractions ( perhaps a mixed race Asian/Black, gay, disabled,religious woman?) and sit in the ineffective 'must please everyone' place they will always be accused of not listening to the other groups. These groups ae so myopic they can't see the big picture and I think they will regret it if they go down that route without Phillips.
Ill informed opinion over.
I did hear when the EHRC were set up that there would be infighting as each of the groups ( Age, Sexual orientation, Gender, Race, Disability, Faith) fights for ther share of the political pie and it looks like it is happening.
Personally I think Phillips was doing the right thing in trying to get people to see the common ground and no drive wedges between groups. I thought the idea of having a Chair of such quangos was to give it direction but it seems that unless he consults with every pressure group before he opens his mouth with an opinion his management style is criticised.
Looks like it was a bit of 'jobs for the favoured few' when they made people redundant and then re-employed them but that looks like a side issue for me.
The key thing is what the Chair is there for? And why the sub-groups feel the need to undermine the organisation to further their own particular group causes. As it gets bigger there is no way these 'rights' groups within the EHRC can continue to call the tune as to what the organisation is doing and saying. It is a bit like a growing family business where the original family members want to continue to do things their way and get things they want for themselves, when the new boss wants to run it like a proper business and take the helm.
I think he is right to pull the race card because whoever is in charge unless they are belong to all of the fighting ractions ( perhaps a mixed race Asian/Black, gay, disabled,religious woman?) and sit in the ineffective 'must please everyone' place they will always be accused of not listening to the other groups. These groups ae so myopic they can't see the big picture and I think they will regret it if they go down that route without Phillips.
Ill informed opinion over.
Edited by Four Cofffee on Sunday 26th July 11:30
Edited by Four Cofffee on Sunday 26th July 11:31
handpaper said:
Shut it down and let him go back to reading the news.
Likewise the Race Relations Board, the Black Police Association and every other publicly-funded body that seeks advantage for a minority.
Our taxes should benefit all of us, equally.
I think the idea behind the EHRC was just that but with so many vested intererests seeing their group as hardest done to, this organisation was always going to be turbulent.Likewise the Race Relations Board, the Black Police Association and every other publicly-funded body that seeks advantage for a minority.
Our taxes should benefit all of us, equally.
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