Anon, Tim does not use the majic trendy word "diversity" - so currently beloved by every bourgeois politician - but raises instead a far more liberating concept. "The widest possible extension of democracy and freedom of expression". Try out for that in your workplace sometime.
Despite the accusation in your post, nowhere does Tim does argue for a continued shackeled existance in a "worker's state". The aim of socialists is to do away with the state after the capitaist class has been completely and finally politically dispossesed.

Alastair's remark looks to me like a facetious response to some of the more preachy elements in the animal rights movement. Although its not a political priority of ours, some comrades are vegetarian out of empathy with animals. While not vegetarian myself I have a record of active participation in actions against aninal cruelty.
Whether you choose to vote for me or not, that participation will be ongoing.

Don Franks