Now it is the party of discrimination, bias, prejudice and unfairness, thanks to Harriet – six jobs – Harman. Count them! Labour deputy leader; party chairman; Leader of the House of Commons; Lord Privy Seal; Secretary of State for Equality; and Minister for Women.

Never the sharpest knife in the Labour Party box, she has long campaigned for women's rights, but like so many in the Labour Party, she seems not to have noticed that hundreds of thousands of very able women have, over the past 20 to 30 years, attained the highest positions in our industry, commerce, and politics.

We have even had a woman Prime Minister. Remember her? But interestingly, not due to the equality-founded Labour Party.

Now we are not only to have legally-based discrimination in favour of women and of ethnic minorities, but deliberate discrimination against white men. Even worse, there will be discrimination against white working-class men who have positively bettered themselves, got an education, and qualifications, something that is becomingly increasingly difficult for white working-class men under Labour's education policies, and their job expertise and experience will count for nothing against women or ethnic minority candidates who may be less qualified when applying for jobs.

Of course, the buck is going to be passed to employers to enforce all this, on pain of unspecified penalties for not doing so, and, unsurprisingly, the lady sees nothing wrong in this. Whatever happened to equality under the law?
But that's life with the Labour Party, which we have all come to loathe.


A delightful day out with the family on their own island


From: Mel Warren, Wellhead Close, Bramhope, Leeds.

YOUR article "Herm is where the heart is" written by Sheena Hastings (Yorkshire Post, June 25) brings back fond memories of a visit which my wife and I made to the island of Herm, while holidaying in nearby Guernsey in the early 1980s.

When making enquiries among guests in our hotel regarding a short boat visit to Herm, we were informed it to be "worth a visit but with not much to see"! With this in mind, we opted to take the last boat out in the morning, with plans to return on the first back in the afternoon.

On board was just one gentleman in addition to the two of us.

The gentleman enquired why we had left it late to visit and, when the reason was repeated to him, he introduced himself as Peter Wood, the current owner of the island.

Taken aback at the injustice shown, he was eager to prove there was much to see on the island and offered to give us a personal conducted tour. This started with us having tea on the lawn of the house, joined by his wife Jenny who originated from Leeds, and his young family who later inherited the estate and are now selling it.

Herm turned out to be as delightful as Peter promised, as was his story of how he and Jenny took over the tenancy after he had returned from the war, and turned it from a dilapidated, run-down state into a thriving tourist paradise. All was not done without years of hard conversion work, failed commercial schemes which were required to make the business viable, and having to be self-sufficient in raising a family initially without the mod cons of piped water, mains electricity, telephones etc.

With Peter's arrangement, we left the island some 12 hours after arrival, on a boat carrying his staff back to Guernsey at 11.30pm after finishing the day with a meal served in the island's hotel.

With us, we brought back a paperback book written by Jenny Wood named Herm – Our Island Home, documenting their new life. Its pages are yellow with age now, but still serve as a reminder of a fascinating day, on a beautiful island, with an extraordinary and admirable family.