Do we need these set quotas?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....men-minority-MPs.html

/// The report also calls for the introduction of candidate lists that exclude white people ///

Rather than set quotas of women/minorities/Disabled/homosexuals etc. wouldn't it be better to have short lists of candidates that are more representative of persons experienced in real life issues, instead of the usual ex-public school educated individuals that have no idea of what life is like for he majority of the electorate?

[bazwillrun]

"blairs babes" were given jobs because of their sex rather than their ability and look what useless individuals we got there and still have.

[fredpuli47]

The chances of getting experience of 'real life' in candidates is sadly minimal, AOG. When Conservative Central Office compiles its A list, from which candidates are drawn,it doesn't pick many like that and when it parachutes a so-called star candidate into a selection, with a heavy hint that that's the one they want selected, that candidate is invariably one of those whose whole career has been in politics, right from university. The Labour Party is not , now, any different. The Parties have shown no interest in trying to change that; this is not surprising as more and more MPs and party staff are of precisely that background.

[kinell]

do we not prefer the best candidates based solely on merit and capability?

we all deserve to be able vote for representation on that basis

i wish to be able to choose from capable committed candidates regardless of colour, creed, sex etc

if the choices are dumbed down then the quality of mp will surely go lower

[Everhelpful]

From one old git to another,me and you would get on great.!!

[Gromit]

Good to have you back AOG. Not heard from you for a week, I was beginning to worry.

[Sandy-Wroe]

Shouldn't there be a limit on the number of old Etonians in any cabinet? What could they know of the lives ordinary people live?