Today, like it or not, we are all sucked into the identity politics that diversity has spawned and its two-tier policing outcome, which John Ellwood brilliantly satirised on Monday in TCW with his 'A Met police guide to who's welcome . . . and who isn't'. It goes back to Harriet Harman's 2010 Equalities Act and one T May's enthusiastic endorsement of it. ‘With her audits, and reviews and inquiries,’ Laura wrote back in 2017, 'shetreats special interest groups as victims to be saved from the marauding masses out there itching to do them down. She also believes that only government – the State – can do the saving. It is not so much Mother Theresa as Nurse Ratched: it is frightening to behold.’
One politician who tried his hardest through a long political career to turn back this rising tide of diversity and dependence died last week. Frank Field, courageous and conscientious Christian, Labour MP for Birkenhead between 1979 and 2019, fell foul of the lot – the hard left, the feminists and Tony Blair's state expansionist technocrats. He never ran away even when it made him physically sick. When faced by that wolf in sheep’s clothing Blair (whose unfinished revolution was brilliantly described for us by Paul Collits yesterday), he refused to comply and resigned as Minister for Welfare. Blair and Gordon Brown's working families and child tax credits did not think the unthinkable but drew more families into dependency, continued the discrimination against two-parent families and encouraged single parenthood. Field warned that without radical reform there would be moral and economic disaster. How right he's been proved.
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