Dominic Raab is no more keen on the Equality Act than he is on the Human Rights Act
Esher and Walton MP Dominic Raab has just been made justice minister alongside Michael Gove.
Raab is a longtime critic of the Human Rights Act – this appointment looks like David Cameron’s way of saying he is serious about scrapping it. In January 2014 Raab voted to allow human rights grounds to be used to prevent a foreign criminal being deported only in cases where there would be a breach of right to life or the right not to be tortured.
In 2013, he voted to remove the duty on the Commission for Equality and Human Rights to work to support the development of a society in which people’s ability to achieve their potential is not limited by prejudice or discrimination.
And in 2013 he also voted against making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of caste.
Raab also took an unusual stance on gender equality in 2011, when he expressed his fears that ‘from the cradle to the grave, men are getting a raw deal’. He attacked the ‘obnoxious bigotry’ of feminists and complained that men work longer hours than women (no mention of pay gap etc).
“While we have some of the toughest anti-discrimination laws in the world, we are blind to some of the most flagrant discrimination – against men.”
Seeming to have fallen at the first hurdle – assuming that feminism is anti-men – Raab also suggested that men start ‘burning their briefs’, presumably as a long- overdue retaliation against the feminists of the sixties (who did not, in fact, burn their bras.)
Raab’s diatribe continued:
“Britain’s not perfect, and we will never eradicate all human prejudice.”
This is especially true when we do not understand that prejudice. Another interesting choice from David Cameron.
Ruby Stockham is a staff writer at Left Foot Forward. Follow her on Twitter
398 Responses to “He thinks feminists are ‘obnoxious bigots’: meet the new justice minister”
Christoph B.
Sorry sarntcrip, it’s definitely not about being “pro female equality” – that’s just what they say it is about. What they actually want is female-only privileges under the guise of equality.
Janet Wilkinson
Yes you are a cunt Jane. Well done.
damon
By the way, would you call this woman Ella Whelan a c-word too?
http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/notguilty-but-a-victim-forever/16976#.VVTAwShwZpU
She’s a feminist I’d guess, but there are all different sorts of those of course.
You do look like, from your comments here so far, that you might be one of the problem type feminists that a lot of people have gotten fed up with over the years.
j.d.troughton
No, gender is often quite central to it. Or the perception of those other characteristics. No doubt more factors than simply my gender come into play. This is a case of the “grass being greener”, for both genders. In our typically sexist manner however, we kowtow and affirm the female perception, and say “it must be something else” to the male perception of advantages on the other side.
j.d.troughton
My response to feminism as well.