Loss of Military Life - 2 hours on the front page then relegated

[Richard Mason]

Originally Posted by Adrian Kelland

Thanks for that.

Interesting comment from the council
I'm pretty sure we have lots of legislation regarding what may or may not be said. What these people said may well be covered by it.

Adrian

Quite so. The council will certainly have rules about offensive behaviour and people carrying on like this clearly could be considered offensive, in the same way as it would have been offensive if they'd complained about the race or religion of other pool users, by which I'm not saying "if they'd been muslims/jews/buddhists/cathoilics/7th day adventists etc it would have been a different story"...........I'm simply saying that this sounds like a clear cut case of discriminatory & offensive behaviour.

[Ferrets]

Just going back to my earlier post when I mentioned the "Help for Heroes" charity trying to fund facilities at Headley Court. Monty Halls has already completed his sponsored dive-a-thon but he would still welcome donations. He has said he will post a link to a report of the event and also a link to a page where donations can be made on here. It might not be right away and I expect he will start a new thread so if I miss it, somebody PM me!

Incidently, before I told him which dive forum I was referring to, I mentioned that if he posted a link on here he could expect some light hearted abuse (after seeing Tanya Streeter's earlier arrival on YD I thought it only fair to warn him). His reply was "It's not Yorkshire Divers is it?!"

[chrisch]

Originally Posted by Richard Mason

Quite so. The council will certainly have rules about offensive behaviour and people carrying on like this clearly could be considered offensive, in the same way as it would have been offensive if they'd complained about the race or religion of other pool users, by which I'm not saying "if they'd been muslims/jews/buddhists/cathoilics/7th day adventists etc it would have been a different story"...........I'm simply saying that this sounds like a clear cut case of discriminatory & offensive behaviour.

This I think must be the case. The people concerned were disabled (how they became so is irrelevant from a policy standpoint). Local authorities should (and do) have proper things in place to prevent discrimination. (Was it an LA pool or a private one - I don't know)

I think the article is probably politically inspired TBH (not that this changes my view that these women were bang out of order).

Surely the people at fault are those that allowed the disabled servicemen to leave and failed to ask the complainants to leave? All disabled people have a right to access to facilities and as such these men were doing nothing wrong. This is, I'm sure not the first nor last example of disabled people being discriminated against. (Hence my view about the article's "spin")

The women should have been asked to leave, not the servicemen. Name and shame the pool managers.

Chris