by
Les May
IN
a few weeks time Andy Burnham will be soliciting my vote in an
attempt to persuade me to re-elect him as Mayor of Greater Manchester
in the poll to be held on 7 May 2020. He will be wasting his time.
I
have voted Labour all my life, but I will not give my support to any
candidate who promotes policies which deliberately discriminate
against people on the basis of their sex.
Burnham
has been pursuing
a policy which does just
this since 2018 when he
introduced a scheme to
issue bus passes to those born between October
6, 1953 and November 5,1954 and
hence too young to qualify for an English National Concessionary
Travel Scheme (ENCTS)
pass, BUT ONLY IF
THEY WERE FEMALE. He
now proposes to extend this to women born between November 6, 1954
and April 5, 1955.
However you care to wrap it up
this is deliberate, systematic discrimination on the basis of a
persons sex. Imagine the outcry if Burnham introduced a scheme
offering bus passes to people in this age group, but insisting that
only those who were white would be eligible.
Men
and women in that age group received exactly the same notice that the
age at which they would become eligible for a State Retirement
Pension and hence
an
ENCTS pass was being raised to 66 years. Does
being a man make someone
less deserving than if they
are a woman?
Burnham
needs holding to account for this. The majority of people doing the
‘grunt work’ in our society are men. Feminists don’t seem to
have been quite so enthusiastic about getting more women into these
kind of jobs. Perhaps it is time for men to press their unions to
ask Burnham for some answers.
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