Gender Quotas (1 Viewer)

[Denny Oubidoux]

I heard something about this today - someone or other is planning to fine political parties if at least 30% of their candidates are not ladies.

 

[Goodbye]

Can we add a "Couldn't give a bolix" option

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

no

 

[Goodbye]

Recon you'd get more votes if you did...

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

you and your apathy. First it was sonic youth albums now this

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Absolute nonsense.

 

[nooleen]

sexist!

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Sexiest.

 

[IFF]

I heard something about this today - someone or other is planning to fine political parties if at least 30% of their candidates are not ladies.

I think it's that political parties who get over 2% in a general election are entitled to funding from the state (at the last election green's got 1.8% so they missed out. ULA got 2.6%. However as they aren't recognised as a political party but only in their parts - pbpa, socialist party. they would also miss out on the funding) so those who don't put in 30% of their candidates would miss out on part of the funding they would otherwise get

i've mixed feeling.
on the one hand, it would get more female candidates (in the last general election, we had one female candidate out of sixteen running. in the 2007 dail election, we also had one. in the 2004 local election, there were no female candidates. )

On the other hand, would the female candidates have a chance. there'd be the feeling that they were forced onto the local cumann of the party by head office just to make up the numbers for the party without any support from the party.
it would also be for other parties that they'd stand female candidates where they knew they couldn't be elected in order just to make up the number.

 

[ann post]

i'd much rather a stipulation that if your dad or mum or uncle or aunt was in government, then you are just not allowed to be involved.

 

[magicbastarder]

how about a quota of people who are company directors in government?
i.e. no more than 20% of TDs can be directors.

 

[nooleen]

how about no gombeen men

 

[Cormcolash]

How about, Ming Flanagan for Emperor?

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

He'll have our peat bogs ruined in no time.

 

[Cormcolash]

It's okay, we'll be able to schmoke them

 

[magicbastarder]

How about, Ming Flanagan for Emperor?

do we get to sacrifice the emperor to appease the angry gods?
i'd go for that.