Equality vs. Equalities

Sometimes one looks at what is going on and wonders whether the whole world is mad.

The British Government is opposing, in the European Court of Human Rights, the right of Christians to wear crosses or crucifixes at work. This daft crusade is being led by Lynne Featherstone, the confused and completely useless Equality Minister. The Government's opponent in the case is its own Equality Commission.

Britain is one of few countries in the world with an established church: Bishops sit in the House of Lords and the move permitting women priests had to be approved by Parliament. The Church of England, headed by the Queen, is part of the fabric of life in Britain, and you would have thought the Government had enough sense to stay out of this one.

Of course Mr. Cameron has already upset the Church with his proposals for gay marriage, which I have commented on recently. He has also upset people who live in the countryside with his changes to planning law and ruinously expensive high speed trains. He has upset a lot of people with his poorly explained changes to the Health Service, and he is about to start a row with changes to the taxation of pensions. On top of that people are seeing their standard of living fall for the second year in a row, youth unemployment is far too high and fuel far too expensive in part due to his insane environmental levies.

All of this would not really matter if it weren't for the fact that within a couple of years he will be asking these people to re-elect him.