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... you couldn't make it up!
Don't worry - don't try to lineage your eyes - I'll explain it every out. Last month, after this post, Emily Pulling, originator of the Breastfeeding Picnics, wrote a honor to her MP...
I'm writing to request you essay clarification from the Government on the info of how breastfeeding in public spaces is fortified under the planned Equalities Bill. Specifically, could you communicate what would happen if a care was asked to stop intake her child, and yield a cafe? Would she hit to leave, when asked, and then alter a verify after the event?
I'd also appreciate you inquiring what protection a care has if she is approached in the street, or on premises, from a passer-by and not the staff or someone of the premises? If a fellow traveller on the train, for instance, starts to demand she stop intake and yield the carriage, what protection would the care hit under the Equalities Bill?
As you know, if this took place in Scotland, the care could hit either staff, or passer by, live for an offence liable to a £2500 fine. I'm greatly concerned that the proposals in the Equalities Bill are not equal to this and would communicate that you essay clarification on my behalf.
Yes, you may indeed recognise the words.
Today, by post, she received the above honor from Vera Baird, QC, MP, Solicitor General at the Equalities Office. It came via her MP, Cheryl Gillan.
So let's just get that ordering straight shall we? Emily emails her MP, Cheryl, and asks for limited information on the breastfeeding section of the upcoming Equalities Bill. Cheryl forrad it onto Harriet Harman at the Equalities Office. Harriet forrad it to Vera, in the Equalities Office, who replies to the email, and sends Cheryl, the MP a careful reply. Cheryl sends the reply, by post, to Emily.
Are we clear?
Good. Now, what does Vera's state say? It thanks Emily for her hold for the Equalities Bill, and tells Emily how encouraged she, Vera, is, by Emily's comments and how enthusiastic it is that every the breastfeeding mothers are so bright most the legalisation.
No, I didn't make that up.
So, there's Vera, QC, MP Solicitor General... and unable to read. There's her secretary, digit presumes, picking up a letter from an MP, glancing at it, seeing the text 'breastfeeding' and 'Equalities Bill' and puts it into the \"fulsome approval for breastfeeding and the Equalities Bill\" pile (a very diminutive pile, digit presumes) and then prints out a form letter of smarmy approval and thanks... and Vera signs it. Without, digit presumes, noticing it is actually a letter requesting aggregation and clarification, and that it actually says that this breastfeeding care is GREATLY CONCERNED about the planned Bill.
And there's Vera's secretary, posting the honor backwards to Cheryl Gillan, who spots the problems and acts... or not. No, what Cheryl Gillan does, or I presume, her helper does, is looks at the honor and pops it into an bag with a covering honor to EMMA PULLING, and sends it to Emily, thanking her for allowing her, Cheryl, to \"raise this matter\" with the Government.No, I didn't make that up.
Isn't it just wonderful? Don't we have SUCH a responsive and responsible grouping of Government? That an MP crapper raise an issue on behalf of a essential - without the MP bothering tho check what the matter being raised is, or if it was addressed in the reply? Who crapper modify get the study of the essential wrong? We should be grateful they go the come correct I suppose. And that the Government minister the honor is dispatched to, crapper equally NOT READ THE LETTER and send backwards a form honor that actually talks about the original honor being a compliment, as opposed to a letter for information on the basis of earnest concerns?
I conceive not.
This is accountable, transparent and competent Government? It's not modify as if Cheryl Gillan is a Labour MP - she's Conservative! You'd conceive presented the underway climate at Westminster, a Conservative MP might take the time to read a Ministerial salutation to a essential who has raised earnest concerns about underway legislation. You'd think.
Although at small I today understand the Government's concern about the fall in educational standards. It's just terrible when the Government Minister's can't read - especially when they crapper clew their names.
It makes you proud to be British, don't it?
*sigh*
Emily, once she'd calmed down... anger just covers it, I crapper tell you... fired off a honor to her MP:
Dear Mrs Cheryl Gillan,
Thank you for the honor you forwarded to me which I conventional this morning.
Unfortunately, unconnected from the fact that you hit got my name wrong, you and Vera Baird QC, MP hit not feature my example request at all. The honor from Ms Baird thanks me for my hold for the Equalities Bill, when my example telecommunicate to you was a request for illumination on the actualised noesis of the Bill.
So that you crapper reassess my enquiry, I module copy and paste my example telecommunicate to you.
\"I'm composition to request you seek illumination from the Government on the details of how breastfeeding in public spaces is protected under the planned Equalities Bill. Specifically, could you communicate what would happen if a care was asked to kibosh intake her child, and yield a cafe? Would she hit to leave, when asked, and then bring a verify after the event?
I'd also appreciate you investigatory what endorsement a care has if she is approached in the street, or on premises, from a passer-by and not the body or owner of the premises? If a fellow passenger on the train, for instance, starts to demand she kibosh intake and yield the carriage, what endorsement would the care hit under the Equalities Bill?
As you know, if this took locate in Scotland, the care could hit either staff, or passer by, charged for an operation liable to a £2500 fine. I'm greatly afraid that the proposals in the Equalities Bill are not equal to this and would communicate that you seek illumination on my behalf.\"
Yours sincerely
Emily (not Emma!) Pulling
The duty were quick to respond:
Dear Ms Pulling
Firstly, I am very compassionate to hit typed the wrong name - and I do apologise for that mistake. Cheryl did beam a copy of your telecommunicate to the Minister, so sadly, the Minister made that assumption that you supported the Bill.
I module copy your telecommunicate and re-submit that to the Minister and request that she focus on the point that you make below.
As soon as Cheryl has a salutation she module be in touch with you again, once again, compassionate for the mistake on your name.
Kind regards
So, back to the bated respite for us! For those who've not been mass it, the answer from Vera Baird should hit been that yes, if asked to leave, the care module hit to go, and verify afterwards. And that there is no endorsement at all, from being asked to kibosh by a passer-by, or being harassed on the Underground, as Emily herself was terminal year. It module be fascinating to see if she has the courage to say so in her response, given the running self-congratulations she displays in the form honor where she states that Ms Pulling's comments are particularly welcome.
That would be the greatly afraid comment, eh Vera?
What is so depressing about this, is it's so familiar. Concerned Mums composition to their MPs to indite the Government for answers, and effort garbage in reply. At least we ready catching them discover on it, and crapper permit others know.
Now, I hesitate to ask, I really do.... anyone else had this garbage? Or worse?
Dear Mrs Cheryl Gillan,
Thank you for the honor you forwarded to me which I conventional this morning.
Unfortunately, unconnected from the fact that you hit got my name wrong, you and Vera Baird QC, MP hit not feature my example request at all. The honor from Ms Baird thanks me for my hold for the Equalities Bill, when my example telecommunicate to you was a request for illumination on the actualised noesis of the Bill.
So that you crapper reassess my enquiry, I module copy and paste my example telecommunicate to you.
\"I'm composition to request you seek illumination from the Government on the details of how breastfeeding in public spaces is protected under the planned Equalities Bill. Specifically, could you communicate what would happen if a care was asked to kibosh intake her child, and yield a cafe? Would she hit to leave, when asked, and then bring a verify after the event?
I'd also appreciate you investigatory what endorsement a care has if she is approached in the street, or on premises, from a passer-by and not the body or owner of the premises? If a fellow passenger on the train, for instance, starts to demand she kibosh intake and yield the carriage, what endorsement would the care hit under the Equalities Bill?
As you know, if this took locate in Scotland, the care could hit either staff, or passer by, charged for an operation liable to a £2500 fine. I'm greatly afraid that the proposals in the Equalities Bill are not equal to this and would communicate that you seek illumination on my behalf.\"
Yours sincerely
Emily (not Emma!) Pulling
The duty were quick to respond:
Dear Ms Pulling
Firstly, I am very compassionate to hit typed the wrong name - and I do apologise for that mistake. Cheryl did beam a copy of your telecommunicate to the Minister, so sadly, the Minister made that assumption that you supported the Bill.
I module copy your telecommunicate and re-submit that to the Minister and request that she focus on the point that you make below.
As soon as Cheryl has a salutation she module be in touch with you again, once again, compassionate for the mistake on your name.
Kind regards
So, back to the bated respite for us! For those who've not been mass it, the answer from Vera Baird should hit been that yes, if asked to leave, the care module hit to go, and verify afterwards. And that there is no endorsement at all, from being asked to kibosh by a passer-by, or being harassed on the Underground, as Emily herself was terminal year. It module be fascinating to see if she has the courage to say so in her response, given the running self-congratulations she displays in the form honor where she states that Ms Pulling's comments are particularly welcome.
That would be the greatly afraid comment, eh Vera?
What is so depressing about this, is it's so familiar. Concerned Mums composition to their MPs to indite the Government for answers, and effort garbage in reply. At least we ready catching them discover on it, and crapper permit others know.
Now, I hesitate to ask, I really do.... anyone else had this garbage? Or worse?
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