When all else fails just stall. Drag your feet like a whining toddler. “I don’t want to, I can’t, it’s too big, I don’t want to, it hurts, I can’t, I’m tired, I want a cookie, I can’t.”
The reply was full of the usual nonsense and obfuscation. It is “very complicated” (no it isn’t). The debate has been “very toxic.” (Whose fault is that? And what does it matter? The longer the delay, the more irritated people get). There has been no delay, the govt spokesman continues.
(Someone points out that the Empire State Building was built in just over a year.)
Then the hapless govt spokesman dares to suggest they need the EHRC guidance. No they don’t – it doesn’t apply to employers – such as the government.
Finally he resorts to saying the guidance (which would help service providers and associations) can’t be laid because of the purdah rules – a transparently false excuse that Baroness Kishwer Falkner dismisses with ill-disguised contempt.
What a shambles this government is.
For the billionth time I wonder what it is about this particular pseudo-rights campaign that makes it so impossible to ignore.
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