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”
Bryan Scandrett
Victim olympics?
Javiroll
We need people like Dominic Raab in positions of influence. For too long the bigoted feminists have been controlling the agenda and promoting the notion that women are victims and men are oppressors. It’s demeaning to women and sexist against men. If men were any other group many feminist supporters would have been prosecuted for hate speech and sex discrimination. Thousands of children have been harmed by ideological discrimination against men that has denied them proper access to their dads and created social services that are not fit for purpose.
Javiroll
Use of shaming tactics and insults are just what feminism has become.
Javiroll
Unpleasant? Not for those of us who believe in true equality.
Javiroll
Women were going to get the vote anyway. Parliament at the time were in favour of all women getting the vote.The suffragettes campaigned for votes for wealthy women only. They also were the ones who went round the streets in Britain handing out white feathers to teenage boys in WW1.
BTW the suffragettes opposed abortion and supported marriage.