To be fair he's not saying "we don't want to heard from white men" but when you're operating in a limited time frame and you can't literally hear everyone's point of view, it's important to make sure you have a broad spectrum of perspectives, and a 5th middle class white bloke's POV is of limited utility when you already have the other 4. For example in my organisation (because full disclosure - it's full of middle class white folks) when I'm adding a perspective to a discussion I like to come at it from the angle of a parent/full time carer of a child with additional needs, because that's a perspective I can offer that others can't, rather than just another generic "working age male" perspective. The team already has that.

So yeah in short, I don't think there's anything wrong with seeking diverse perspectives. Demographic traits don't "define people" in their entirety but it would be foolish to try to claim that people have full understandings of other people's issues... to use my example again; a layperson's thoughts on the things that might affect the parent of a disabled child mean precisely jack **** to be completely blunt about it. And likewise it would be ludicrous for me to suggest that I can offer a full perspective on issues affecting an ethnic minority or a female.

Yes a silly comment
Been sent around the World
now.

Labour Party Conference that is never ending in edits

They alose need to stop referring to people as comrades

outdated and fake

Ex Leader backs the Scum word

Well as long as they have this nonsense to talk about then they don't have to talk about what's happening in Australia.

Let's just say both parties are scum, and let's move on. This really isn't important, she's entitled to an opinion.

Yes Popular,
is her saying get rid of Business Rates


Rachel Reeves Today

So she had been on the sauce it seems...

I say both parties are scum, what they gonna do about it, put my opinion on the news?

No Alf
no one should call an MP
"Scum"



Thats gone around our World

Yes Emily on Politics Live Ending
BBC2HD
saying the Drinks did not help.



Scum
easy to Shout out after some booze

Of course Alf
you can call them that,



But Not a Deputy Leader
using "Scum"
that stinks

He is the Chairperson he can choose whose question he wants to take

He is more or less forcing people to put their hands up even though they may not want to :laugh:

But that deputy leader has equal freedoms to me, so why is it OK for me but not her.

I can’t even believe I'm having to defend Raynor here.

Even if it's not becoming of a deputy leader to say that. It's not the big story the media are making of it.

I see your point but again it's about optics. He's handing the opportunity for people to clip it and share it round, making the party look bad.

If the aim is to win back the red wall, that won’t help

They are literally the gift that keeps on giving to the Tory’s currently

Well exactly :joker: