Our amendment reflects our irritation at the decision taken to distinguish between the Labour Party and the Independents based on the new concept of collective seniority. It effectively amounted to age discrimination. While my colleagues on the Independent benches deserve many things, they are not sufficiently enfeebled by their age to need discrimination of the form permitted in the equal status legislation. It is permissible to discriminate on age grounds where elderly people require it, but the Independent Members do not seem to be lacking vigour to such an extent that they need it. It is, therefore, extraordinary that younger people are discriminated against in favour of older people and that we have a parliamentary group with more women which is discriminated against in favour of a group with less women. The legislation allows for positive discrimination on both grounds. As long as that anomaly continues, we in the Labour Party will continue to find ways to raise what we believe to be an injustice.