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Still Unequal – and with the Exception of Jo Richardson, Almost Twice As Undecided As Men EQUALITHETY GSPENDECIALER Fabian Review www.fabians.org.uk Spring 2011 3% OF MEN IN THE UK'S CHILDCARE WORKFORCE 4719 NUMBER OF MEN ELECTED TO NUMBER OF CONSTITUENCIES IN 2010 THE HOUSE OF WHERE ALL THREE MAJOR PARTY COMMONS SINCE CANDIDATES WERE MEN/WOMEN 1918 355 NUMBER OF WOMEN ELECTED TO THE HOUSE STILL 267 OF COMMONS SINCE 1918 UNEQUAL Why the left is putting 11 women front and centre 86% 100 OF LOCAL 80 90% AUTHORITY 60 PROPORTION OF SINGLE 14% LEADERS ARE 40 PARENTS WHO ARE WOMEN, OF LOCAL AUTHORITY MEN 20 THE GROUP WORST AFFECTED LEADERS ARE WOMEN BY CUTS £4.20 AMOUNT MEN STAND TO PERCENTAGE OF MPS THAT ARE MEN/WOMEN LOSE A WEEK AFTER THE CUTS 68 32 Labour £8.80 84 16 Conservative AMOUNT WOMEN STAND TO Lib Dem LOSE A WEEK AFTER THE CUTS 88 12 The quarterly magazine of the Fabian Society Volume 123 no 1 £4.95 REVIEW OF THE SPRING Image: Adrian Teal Democracy Day As both sides in the referendum battle voter apathy, the Yes campaign have won the arguments if not yet the votes. What if they threw a referendum and hand. But Yes campaigners should to reversing a Labour retreat in the nobody came? Our first national do more than factual rebuttal – and southern regions, and would help to plebiscite for 35 years has hardly set the invite those campaigning against this mitigate the sharp regional polarisation country alight. (fictional) waste of money to join them of British politics. Labour voters will probably decide in a bipartisan promise to legislate There is no cast iron evidence about the referendum, though many may not that General Election votes shall be partisan effects. Voters and parties would vote on the issues. It is impossible to counted by hand, whether we keep the act differently under a new system. AV vote against the coalition Government: system or change it. There would be is good for broadly popular parties, and a No vote cast to spite Nick Clegg an overwhelming Commons majority bad for pariah parties. will also bolster David Cameron and to defuse the threat. Refusing such an Labour would have done better George Osborne. olive branch would be to openly admit under AV in recent elections, but badly in The Yes campaign makes too simple that the bogus campaign is a dirty trick. 1983. The Conservatives are increasingly a contrast between ‘democracy or An honest account of the choice panicked about a Yes vote, telling Tory duck houses‘, stretching a tenuous link would acknowledge several similarities donors to fund the No campaign or risk from safe seats to MP expenses. But between first-past-the-post and the having to fund a much more difficult re- the No campaign has focused primarily Alternative Vote. AV would retain a election campaign if the system changes. on false claims, making a blatant lie – parliament in which every MP represents AV would make securing a majority that changing the voting system will a single constituency, but must now for ‘no compromise’ Conservatism cost £250 million – its central public seek 50 per cent. Both are majoritarian harder, requiring a broader appeal argument, after its polling showed this systems, which will tend to deliver a beyond the Tory tribe than David could shift inattentive voters. majority to a single party which receives Cameron has yet achieved. But no There is a particular chutzpah in a 40 per cent of the vote, while both will electoral system would or should ever No campaign led by Matthew Elliott, the deliver hung Parliaments in conditions permanently exclude a major political head of The Taxpayers’ Alliance, which like those of May 2010. tradition from power. Tories feared hates public spending and campaigns I will vote Yes as the differences seem universal suffrage would kill them too, with passion for deeper cuts, running clearly in AV’s favour. X voting was fine but conservatives manage to live with emotive but irrelevant posters calling for in 1955 when there were, on average, 2.2 changes they opposed. more spending on premature baby units. candidates per constituency. This rose Fabians will make up their own Surely even they can’t believe it. to over 6 by 2010. Every voter can cast a minds on both sides of the argument. There will be no expensive voting real first choice vote under AV. Fifteen Do vote – and for the system you believe machines. None are planned, nobody per cent of voters say they don’t vote would be better for our democracy. wants them, and Australia counts for the candidate or party they want at Alternative Vote (AV) votes by present. This is particularly important SK Spring 2011 Fabian Review 1 THE SPRING IN REVIEW email your views to: [email protected] The Fabian New Year Conference cover claim that this year was “His Test Derek Clark, Labour’s shadow back at the end of January was Ed and Ours”, Miliband said: “you’ve got Europe minister Wayne David MP Miliband’s first big speech of 2011. to do your bit and I’ll do mine; that’s and Tory Eurosceptic Mark Reckless The new Labour leader spoke after the way we can build a platform for MP – at a one-day Fabian conference the by-election success in Oldham what you want, for what I want – to called ‘Britain & Europe: In, out or and Saddleworth and delivered an win the next election.” Elsewhere at the somewhere in between?’. In addition, optimistic call to action. He outlined conference Douglas Alexander clashed Ed Miliband’s policy chief Stewart the scale of the challenge faced by with Lib Dem deputy leader Simon Wood led a launch seminar for the Labour but was clear that “there is Hughes on how progressive voices recent Fabian and FEPS pamphlet a progressive majority in Britain”. could influence the coalition and the Europe’s Left in the Crisis: How the He said “the decision of the Liberal long-term shape of the centre-left. next left can respond. Reported by the Democrats to join a Conservative-led Daily Telegraph as “the most accurate Government was a tragic mistake … reflection going of where Labour is [but] I am certainly pleased that many Europe has been very much on heading”, the seminar discussed Liberal Democrats now see Labour as the Fabian radar in recent months. exclusive YouGov polling conducted the main progressive hope in British Shirley Williams led a diverse range for the pamphlet which revealed politics.” Echoing the Fabian Review’s of speakers – including UKIP MEP that behind a general anti-Brussels sentiment, there also lies a desire for greater co-operation between EU member states in core policy areas. Recent Fabian chair Sadiq Khan MP launched Labour’s criminal justice policy review in a Fabian lecture. In his first major speech as shadow justice secretary, Khan praised the achievements of the last Labour Government in reducing violent crime and said the party should now support reducing the prison population. Khan wrote in the Guardian that “focusing on these issues is not about being soft on crime – it is about being effective in reducing it. This will be the test we put to the Government: are its policies cutting crime? We fear it will fail the test, because its focus is on cutting costs, not crime.” The following Q&A session included responses from Juliet Lyon (Director, Prison Reform Trust) and Matthew Ryder QC (Matrix Chambers). Fabian General Secretary Sunder Katwala has been long-listed for The Orwell Prize in the political blogging category, for pieces published on the Fabian blog Next Left, as well as at the New Statesman and Left Foot Forward. The Orwell Prize website includes ten posts from each of the 22 long-listed bloggers, chosen from 220 entries for the prize, and so offers a good chance to discover some new online writers. You can read Sunder’s blog posts here: http://theorwellprize. © Andrew Wiard co.uk/longlists/sunder-katwala/ 2 Fabian Review Spring 2011 Fabian Review Fabian Review is the quarterly journal of the Fabian Society [email protected] INSIDE Editor Tom Hampson Assistant Editor 4 How the Government has 16 After the cuts, is feminism Ed Wallis got it wrong on gender changing? Fabian Review, like all publications of equality… Ellie Levenson and Laurie Penny the Fabian Society, represents not the collective view of the Society, but only Howard Reed the views of the individual writers. The 18 Why Lib Dem women responsibility of the Society is limited to approving its publications as worthy 5 …and how to make face electoral meltdown of consideration within the Labour it better Sunder Katwala and Seema movement. Kitty Ussher Malhotra Printed by The Colourhouse London SE14 6EB 7 The Fabian Interview 20 The Fabian Essay Designed by SoapBox Communications “We can’t wait for history” How the Tories are Mary Riddell embedding inequality ISSN 1356 1812 Nan Sloane Fabian Society 11 Dartmouth Street 10 The new gender London SW1H 9BN battleground 22 Books Telephone 020 7227 4900 Fax 020 7976 7153 The death of the mainstream [email protected] 15 Women, as ever, will Ed Wallis www.fabians.org.uk keep the big society from General Secretary falling apart 24 The Fabian Society Sunder Katwala Pat Thane Listings RESEARCH Research Director Tim Horton Research Fellow QUESTIONS WE’RE ASKING James Gregory PUBLICATIONS Editorial Director Tom Hampson Editorial Manager Ed Wallis EVENTS Events Director Genna Stawski Events Manager James Hallwood CUTS Events Manager and Executive Assistant CUTS YVETTE COOPER POLICY REVIEW BIG SOCIETY Katharina Klebba Could they be fairer Will she be Labour’s Are women angrier What happens Events and Office Assistant for women? first female leader? at the government when the state Katharina Klebba than men? retreats? FABIAN OFFICE p4 p7 p10 p15 Finance Manager Phil Mutero Local Societies Officer A ONE-DAY FABIAN Deborah Stoate CONFERENCE Membership Officer Giles Wright THE PROGRESSIVE The first conference after INTERNS the Coalition’s first big Lisa O’Dea electoral test Vicki Dabrowski Chris Gudgin Saturday 14th May 2011 Mark Jenner FIGHT 11am to 4pm, Millbank Byron Orme With a keynote speech from FABIAN WOMEn’S NETWORK BACK!! Andy Burnham MP Seema Malhotra [email protected] Tickets cost £5 for Fabian members and £10 for non-members (plus a six month introductory Fabian membership) with additional concessionary rates.
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