From: roger@hayter.org 
  
 On 2 Aug 2025 at 15:02:37 BST, ""billy bookcase""  wrote: 
  
 > 
 > "JNugent"  wrote in message 
 > news:mf6eekF838lU1@mid.individual.net... 
 >> On 02/08/2025 11:31 AM, Jethro_uk wrote: 
 >>> 
 > Gross snippage 
 > 
 > 
 >>> Feel free to continue to harangue me and others. But the situation is as 
 >>> it is, whether or not you approve, understand, or even care. 
 >> 
 >> I am haranguing* no-one. 
 >> 
 >> I was asking why British citizens resident in England, Wales and Scotland 
 may 
 >> not avail 
 >> themselves of the same legal protactions as are available to British 
 citizens 
 >> resident 
 >> in Northern Ireland. 
 >> 
 >> And as yet, no-one has put forward a reason as to why that protection 
 should 
 >> not be 
 >> extended to citizens living in GB. 
 > 
 > 
  
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 > 
 > ..."billy bookcase"  wrote in message 
 > news:106j2ig$j3up$1@dont-email.me...>> 
 > 
 > 
 >>> Is there any good reason why discrimination [is] forbidden and policed in 
 >>> Northern 
 >>> Ireland should be allowed 
 >> 
 >> It was forbidden in Northern Ireland specifically because Protestants 
 owned 
 >> the majority, but not all of the major manufacturers. Incomers being the 
 >> main exception. And so favoured their fellow Protestants, when recruiting 
 >> for jobs. 
 >> 
 >> As they also did, when allocating Council Housing. [ And Voting ] 
 >> 
 >>> and even encouraged - in the rest of the UK? 
 >>> 
 >> 
 >> There is no such religious discrimination in recruiting being practised 
 >> in the remainder of the UK simply because there is *no similar societal 
 >> basis for it. 
 > 
 > The ownership and management of Industry in the UK simply isn't monopolised 
 > by members of one particular religion who might favour members of their 
 > own religion when jobs are in short supply 
 > 
 > * Unlike in the early 19th century when Protestant owned Lancashire 
 > Cotton Mills were largely manned by Irish Catholics. 
 > 
 >> 
 >> There of course exceptions; when recruiting for religiously sensitive 
 >> roles for instance 
 > 
 > Which of course was also the start of the Troubles. When in the mid 60's 
 > NICRA The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association copped on to the fact 
 > that in Law anyway, if not in reality,  Blacks In the US had been granted 
 more 
 > Civil Rights than had Catholics in NI. 
 > 
 > This then devolved into peaceful marches which though led by Nationalist 
 > MPs met with increasing amounts of violent resistance, from Protestant 
 thugs. 
 > 
 > And the rest, as they say, is history 
 > 
 > Well to some people at least;  who were actually awake at the time 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > bb 
  
 Of course, while we do not have the same legislation as NI, it is still 
 unlawful to discriminate against any religion, or religious denomination, in 
 employing people in the rest of the UK. Under the Equality Act 2010 and 
 possibly earlier legislation. 
  
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