Gordon Brown has blown the dogwhistle of the Left by declaring a class war on the Tories, stating

Your inheritance tax policy seems to have been dreamed up on the playing fields of Eton.

Class prejudices infect the Labour party, despite their oft-repeated claims of valuing “equality”. It cheers them up to attack the Tories because of their perceived class, because they think it helps them. It seems that Labour have not learned the lesson of Crewe and Nantwich, where the played the “Tory Toff” card and got roundly beaten.
Cameron has responded …

I am an unabashed monarchist – I feel that the constitutional monarchy we have best fits our peculiar historical and political history, and that there is no reason to try and “fix” what isn’t broken. However, I also believe that the Royal Family and the succession needs to be reformed.
The current situation is untenable in the modern world, with the discrimination against women and against non-Anglicans. It is completely out of place that someone can be excluded from being sovereig based on their gender or their religion, and there is …

It’s official: Trevor Phillips really is a cock, and has an immeasurably discriminatory view of society and democracy. He thinks that democracy is only democratic if it achieves an electoral result that mirrors society:

The Commission starts from the position that a Parliament which reflects the make-up of the nation it represents will result in better legislation and a higher degree of public confidence in the democratic process.
There needs to be people inside this House… who actually know what it means to be disabled, there needs to be more people who …

No matter what particular socio-economic group you refer to, positive discrimination still isn’t a good thing. Whether it is ethnic minorities, women, or the white working-class. Or any other.
Trevor Phillips is saying that:

What we are seeing is that there is a whole group of people, a large proportion of whom are white, who are going to suffer from this crisis who are going to be the people we should want to help, particularly because they come from the wrong side of town.
We are going to have to do something special …

It was proposed and rejected by the Attorney General just back in April, but now it has come up again:

Downing Street has drawn up plans to end the 300-year-old exclusion of Catholics from the throne. The requirement that the succession automatically pass to a male would also be reformed, making it possible for a first born daughter of Prince William to become his heir. (The Guardian)

About bloody time!
I can see absolutely no reason why this shouldn’t come in to reality. It is completely out of place in the modern world …

Discrimination is wrong, in every way. This is something we all agree on, right? So how is tacking the word “positive” on to it making it any better?
What Harman is proposing is utterly disgusting. The very idea that firms should discriminate in favour of female and ethnic minority job candidates is no better than than discrimination in favour of middle-aged white men.
Discrimination in order to increase diversity and to “help organisations such as the police better reflect the communities they serve” isn’t a Good Thing in the slightest. In fact, …

This was in yesterday’s Times:
The Attorney-General’s office has ruled out any legislation that would give equal rights of succession to the throne to daughters of a monarch. Nor will it repeal the law that bans the heir to the throne from marrying a Roman Catholic.
And this in the Telegraph two days ago:
Vera Baird, the Solicitor General, who is steering the new equality bill through the Commons, said the right of males to succeed ahead of their older sisters was “unfair” and “a load of rubbish”…Mrs Baird also wants to repeal …

WTF?
A police mascot has been criticised for being too white and male.The character, a police community support officer, or PCSO, called Steve, is white with blue eyes and blond hair. He is based on a real officer in Sutton, Surrey, and visits primary schools and public events in London.But one Metropolitan Police sergeant said “Steve” failed to represent the communities he served, and could leave Asian and women officers “isolated”. (The Telegraph)
As far as I am aware, the vast majority of people in Britain are still white. Hence, to have …

Who is it that is discriminating – universities or the state school students?
Leading universities are guilty of bias towards middle-class teenagers leading to a “huge waste” of the talents of children from poor backgrounds, a Government minister said yesterday.John Denham, the Universities Secretary, said some of the “most sought-after” institutions were shunning bright children from poor homes.In a veiled attack on universities such as Oxford and Cambridge, which have the fewest students from state schools, Mr Denham said academics should do more to “identify and nurture the young students of …

There is one group which it is still legal to discriminate against in Britain – Catholics. Under the 1701 Act of Settlement, no British monarch may be or marry a Catholic. To do so would require abdication. This has come into the news because Peter Phillips, the Queen’s eldest grandson and tenth in line to the throne, may well have to renounce his right to the succession because his fiancée is Catholic.
Why is this acceptable in modern Britain? Even though the monarch may be by right “Supreme Governor of the …