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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 16 December 2024
Debate
Football Governance Bill [HL]Contribution
As a final PS, one group that certainly faces more discrimination in this country than any other, according to all the data that is ever shared on this, is white working-class males, who are always at the bottom of the pile of all the groups that are looked at. The one thing that football clubs in this country do well is including white working-class males. So pat yourself on the back if you are a football club, as far as I am concerned. But of course, in EDI-speak, those white working-class males are not being brilliantly included in local community football without anyone having a policy on it; they are considered inherently privileged. In fact, under EDI CRT rules, that white working-class football club is more privileged than a multi-millionaire black footballer—it is a ludicrous inversion.
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