GB News reports on the risk to employees of voicing unfashionable opinions on hot-button issues, citing case data from the Free Speech Union showing how equity, diversity and inclusion policies are being invoked to penalise them. Here’s an excerpt:
Employees who voice opinions on gender, race, sexuality and religion risk being sacked from their workplace, GB News has been told.
British firms pose a “danger” of “threatening” the freedom of employees, according to an organisation which advocates freedom of speech.
Director of Data and Impact at the Free Speech Union (FSU) Thomas Harris says Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) policies – which are often compulsory for employees – could “further erode freedom of expression”.
The FSU reports that one in 20 of its cases are directly related to EDI training which are “accelerating the politicisation of the workplace”.
While organisations such as Coutts and the Church of England’s investment bodies have signed up to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment – which encompasses EDI and Net Zero policies.
The FSU has shared exclusive case studies with GB News, including examples of employees who have faced possible sanctions.
Some members have been told that they will fail their EDI training if they don’t pass a test with a “sufficiently high score”, which could ultimately see employees suffering “hostility” and a potential sanction.
Other EDI training materials, which treat issues such as critical race theory, micro aggressions (negative attitudes toward stigmatised or culturally marginalised groups) or anti-racism, are ideas not to be questioned.
It comes after reports revealed last week that organisation ‘B Lab U.K.’ is lobbying for a change in the law to further embed these practices in British companies.
The ‘Better Business Act’ would see section 172 of the Companies Act 2006 amended to give chiefs a duty to consider “people and the planet”, not just profit. …
Harris told GB News: “The evidence from our casework is clear. The EDI policies being rolled out by companies wishing to demonstrate their woke credentials, routinely operate as oppressive speech codes for both employees and customers alike.”
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I can imagine that my holiday to Denmark will still require me to have taken two or three courses of the therapeutic though.
Reuters reports (yesterday): If the changes are approved, the only rules that will remain are those covering test and isolation on entry to Denmark, which will stay in place for another four weeks.
The implication being that they, too, may be removed after four weeks. But I expect yer jabbed will be the only ones given a clear run.
“If you are entering from a COVID-19 high-risk country, you must self-isolate after entry, unless you are fully vaccinated or previously infected. You must isolate yourself for 10 days. You may break the isolation after a negative PCR test taken at the earliest on the sixth day after the time of entry.16.1.2022″
covid especially for those actually vaccinated (only available to those recovered from SARS2) is never high-risk.
Often, in discussions, I feel that the simplicity of this fundamental point gets missed. Covid lethality is the foundational myth of the whole shit-show.
100%. And there was a deliberate campaign to make sure if could not be discussed and anyone who did was either dangerous or mad.
On the other, vaccines are never no-risk for any age group or health status.
Covid for the perforated most definitely is High Risk.
>we can now remove the last coronavirus restrictions in Denmark,”
Could have done it in march 2020
They are hoping to get away with these atrocities.
But.. Sturgeon said England was an ‘outlier..’
I thought she said ‘out-and-out liar’.
In her own mind she’s not out and she’s not a liar.
No, that was herself.
She’s slow to remove her own injunctions*, she thinks they are super.
*not to be understood as in ‘interdict’.
I’m not lowering my guard. Not one bit.
Same with your mask?
Unlike the DS which seems happy to overlook the remaining travel measures.
The end of some the most obvious restrictions keeps being oversold as the end of all restrictions and it is dangerous.
Until travel in and out of a country is completely unconditional with regards to covid, coronavirus, or anything related, then not all restrictions have been removed.
Even when that happens, there will still be the very hard job of completely debunking many of the flawed and dangerous assumptions that have led to all these measures, such as the idea that we don’t have a “right” to infect each other. Or that the state can remove basic fundamental rights, rights that none of us prior to 2020 even imagined we could ever lose.
You’re absolutely right that we mustn’t lower our guard.
As long as virology reigns, and others regarded as disease vectors, there are no truly effective arguments against curbs on freedoms.
Well, there is the proportionality argument.
But we have seen how arbitrary that one is and how easily a small risk has been sold as a huge risk to a population with what appears to be a vanishingly small risk tolerance.
So, in effect, yes.
‘Covid’ is all about ‘control’ – even the ‘fully vaccinated’ are always in danger of ‘the authorities’ pulling a positive test result out of their hat, if they want to tease someone, or just to get some more profits for their hotel-owning mates.
This is waaay too coordinated. Lockstep once again. I know this may sound paranoid to some, but this all makes me very worried about what they have up their sleeve. Maybe the next step is a more direct approach, simply communicating & subtly rolling out the digital ID and the first stage of the social credit system? After all, they can simply give those horrible, unclean unvaxxed minority (of which, just to be clear, I’m one) a choice – get onboard or lose your right to anything that constitutes a life. They’ve already got the majority onboard, and most of those have already gone full fascist, so why not? It just accelerates the plan.
We’re all thinking it, except the very rude phantom down voter
The very rude phantom down voter…?
Schwab the decks, cabin boy!
This photo could be seen to violate the new admin rules, no?
Any idea why the new caption has appeared, about being rude to other posters, etc.? Has something happened? No swear words?
Don’t know, but when we’re in the middle of a war it doesn’t seem unreasonable to be impolite to the enemy!
Was wondering the same – maybe rational has complained about all the negative comments? I was one of the many..
Telling someone to use the product of the kidneys does not roll off the tongue.
You mean it’s an obscenity?
With ‘cases still going up’ a clear admission that all lockdown regulations were nonsense from the start and remain so but why not just abandon them tonight 00:01 rather than drag them out a few more days?
Or. Denmarks population is seen as being nearly fully compliant with docile obedient conformity and so restrictions need to be relaxed before lockdown is effortlessly reimposed in furtherance of compulsory electric cars, sequestration of bank accounts, ban on meat consumption or whatever else they feel like introducing.
If it’s a ban on meat consumption, may I please have first dibs on all that surplus, and hopefully free Danish bacon?
On the ‘News’ in Finland today, one city has been labelled as the most ‘carbon unfriendly’ city of Finland. I hope the residents of that city are thoroughly ashamed of themselves, they are destroying our environment.
Meanwhile China builds 16 more coal-fired power stations, and Bezos charges $2 million for a short hop up into ‘Space’ in his willy-rocket.
That’s a petty little numbers game played all the time. Local Live Online (Mirror Group News) frequently headline “South Central District revealed as hottest Covid Hotspot in the County !”
There is always going to be a place, doesn’t matter where, that is the hottest hotspot, even if it’s got the only case in the County.
6th April this year in the UK is when digital ID will start to be rolled out….
Source please
Go to government documents. Thank Oliver Dowden for pushing it through on the
QT
not good enough. Cite or shut up
Naughty, see new posting guidelines.
Digital identity document validation technology (IDVT) – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
To weed out illegal immigrants:
Policy paper
Identity document validation technology in the right to work and right to rent schemes, and DBS pre-employment checking (accessible version) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/digital-identity-document-validation-technology-idvt/identity-document-validation-technology-in-the-right-to-work-and-right-to-rent-schemes-and-dbs-pre-employment-checking-accessible-version
Not to be confused with https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/927547/GOS_The_Future_of_Citizen_Data_Systems_Report__2_.pdf
which on every page states, ‘This is not a statement of government policy‘
Omicron is so different to Delta that some are suggesting it was released from a South African bio-lab.
It is acting as a viral vaccine (even Putin used those words), being more dominant it is replacing Delta and it’s effect is so mild that it is of no consequence.
Maybe there is a benevolent Dr Strangelove out there after all.
in the context of “viral swarms” omnicrom could have been around all the time, just that because of the S domain dropout on PCR tests, nobody detected it.
see Dan Sirotkins substack for the best explination of viral swarms
https://harvard2thebighouse.substack.com
JC also covers it in this 20 min clip from his stream
https://www.biblaridion.info/blog/sherlock-ohmes/
Anything is possible, apart from the official narrative.
However, I disagree with JC because he is saying Omicron only became evident because of the success of the vaccination program against Delta.
I don’t think many people on this site agree that the vaccinations work.
I also disagree with Dan Sirotkins where he states ……
“However the prospect that the COVID-19 Pandemic actually represents a global version of an oral live-attenuated virus transmitting widely enough to deattenuate back to its original fully-virulent V-1000 form should be more than enough to spur public health authorities into action with basic guidelines around simple mechanical barriers like masks and extra ventilation, which done in piecemeal and often alone seem to have been enough to keep the seasonal flu’s quasispecies swarm from forming at all this past year.”
Basically he is saying that masks work.
I don’t think many people on this site agree that masks work.
One of the features of the Common Cold is that it is of so little consequence that the human body does not bother to become immune to it which is why some people catch the annual variation more than once.
source?
Well it’s sort of common knowledge, I expect I could find a source if I had the time to go looking through a first year virology textbook.
Not my downtick btw.
Wasn’t the suggestion that it came from China via Botswana?
One suggestion is that the original virus was released in Wuhan by US spooks as an economic bio-weapon.
The burning question for today is: How did we allow them to succeed in demonising coughs and sniffles, but normalise heart inflammation, myocarditis and heart attacks?
A good point.
And normalise dying alone in care homes and hospitals?
By making people feel virtuous when they in fact indulged in their own fears. An old trick. You are doing God’s work when you burn that spinster at the stake; don’t think of it as murder, but as a necessary cleansing to help us all.
Appeal to their vanity. You took a risk for the greater good by getting jabbed, even though you actually succumbed to irrational fear. But focus on those who didn’t take the risk; they don’t care about the common good. They are the enemy.
You make it sound suitably pathetic, which it is…
It irks me that so few people can tell the difference between an assertion and an argument on the ground, yet think they are well educated…
C.S. Lewis had it right – “why don’t they teach logic in these schools?”.
I fancy there would be a monstrous kickback from the generally left wing elements of the teaching profession and their unions – it would only serve to spotlight their own very evident inadequacies, PC/woke tendencies and it would turn out children who are a hell of a lot smarter than they are – as well as reverse their leitmotif that the purpose of education is to control thought , not develop the ability to think.
Supposedly 10,000 watched one of these burnings in Maumbury Rings, Dorchester once. The mass entertainment of its day. But now of course we are much more civilised, humane, wise…
and demonise the old dying, but normalise the young dying?
Hmm:
If you are travelling to Denmark from the UK and have not been fully vaccinated or recovered from COVID-19 you will need to:
See Old Maid’s post above:
Reuters reports (yesterday): If the changes are approved, the only rules that will remain are those covering test and isolation on entry to Denmark, which will stay in place for another four weeks.
The implication being that they, too, may be removed after four weeks. But I expect yer jabbed will be the only ones given a clear run.
“Fully Vaccinated” vax 1&2 or vax 1&2 + boost?
Or in my case, and other ‘vulnerable’: vax 1&2 & 3rd Primary + boost?
According to the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/stay-up-to-date.html
SOP throughout most of Europe then .
Does anybody know if the Hawich to Esbjerg ferry is still opperating?
Seems to be the only country I may be able to plan a driving holliday to whilst unjabbed!
Norway is welcoming ALL – UK needs to follow their brilliant example
Norway – hardly ‘welcoming’. And if you get a ‘positive’ test result, where will you have to quarantine, and who’s paying for that?
“You are required to take a test for COVID-19 before arrival in Norway. You must present a certificate showing a negative test result for SARS-CoV-2. The approved test methods are PCR or a rapid antigen test. … You can end travel quarantine early following a negative PCR test taken no sooner than 3 days after arrival.14.1.2022”
“Adult travellers who DO NOT possess a valid COVID certificate must ALSO take a test no more than 24 hours prior to arriving in Norway. If you arrive by air, the test can be taken during the last 24 hours prior to the scheduled departure time of the first flight”
“those who have symptoms of COVID, or who test positive, must go into isolation immediately. If you are a close contact to a person who has tested positive for COVID, you may be required to quarantine or, alternatively, to test yourself regularly over a period of time in order to avoid quarantining.”
https://www.visitnorway.com/plan-your-trip/coronavirus-and-travelling-to-norway/
That stopped years ago… I was on it in 2012… nearest connections by ferry to northern Europe are Hull-Rotterdam, Harwich-Hoek of Holland. Something goes to Amsterdam, too, I think.
There was a Harwich-Oslo ferry (Fred Olson) – stopped years ago.
Newcastle – Kristiansand (southern Norway) – stopped years ago.
There are no ferries to Scandinavia from the UK, only the Bergen – Lerwick (Shetland) – Faroe Islands boat.
Nothing to Gothenburg any more.
Maybe something to Hamburg?
In the 60s, I used to go to Norway on the Newcastle-Kristiansand route. If you got on the wrong part of the train from London, I seem to remember that you’d end up in Edinburgh.
45 years ago one early Easter a friend and I were headed London-Spain on motorbikes.
The Stevedores direct bikes into the mouth of the roll-on roll-off ferry last to fill up whatever little space is left between the artic lorries so it’s flipping cold.
Reaching the rather shabby cafeteria I said to my mate.
“Neil, this menu ain’t in French, it’s in Scandinavian”.
We were on the ferry to Bergen in winter, on motorbikes. No thanks.
Happily the pursuer agreed that it was not our fault and managed to disembark us just in time.
(I don’t specifically remember but it must have been from Dover).
yes it finished end 2013. Smyril dropped Lerwick for their Hirtshals-Torshavn ( Faroene ) service at least 13 years ago. Harwich Hamburg was axed end 1980s.
DFDS canned the Harwich to Esbjerg ferry run by MS Sirena Seaways. Largely a casualty of very low sulphur emissions requirements covering the whole of the North Sea and championed by climate zealot Connie Hedegaard who was European Commissioner for Climate Action in the EC. So only way to Denmark or Norway is vai Zeebruuge or Rotterdam
‘Denmark Ends All Pandemic Restrictions…’
What, for good?
Perhaps it means that there are no restrictions against future pandemics.
Ha ha. Very clever, my friend.
Nope, just until they want to use Lockdown again to impose the next thing that they fancy.
Every household has to paint their roof special Bill and Melinda White Reflective Gloss to combat global warming; whole family locked in the house until you comply.
Like so many have been saying, Lockdown is not about a virus, it’s about control but it’s not effective to keep it in a constant state.
The same “decoupling between infections and intensive care patients” is also happening in Germany, where the official narrative is “there is not enough vaccination”, and which is used to uphold the restrictions. Makes full sense, as usual.
While the protagonists are still alive it would be instructive to do a thorough examination of the very few countries/states that didn’t go full on corona mad, especially the very few rich world places (Sweden, South Dakota) and equally instructive to look at which rich world countries came out of it first, to see what lessons can be learned – if any (it may just be luck).
a lot of luck in whether it gets into the care homes I imagine. except in the UK where we did it on purpose
and sweden (but they admitted that was a mistake).
Plus NYC
Finally I have a great excuse to push Legoland Denmark as a holiday destination.
Watch your step….
Makes a change from Neverletgoland Britain.
Wasn’t that just the Roman ‘Wee for Wictory’?
“If you use swear words or say you think someone should be killed or are very rude to another commenter you will be banned.”
All these leaders that forced misery and suffering on the population, destroyed businesses, split families, forced masking and other stupid mandates, wreaked economic havoc and pushed a dangerous untested ‘vaccine’ should be put on trial. This was treason and tyranny.
If they are found guilty, they should be hanged by the neck until dead.
Yes I’ve just noticed that and am not overly keen on it. We’ve done fine thus far. Think it sufficient to make sure no-one posts anything illegal.
It wound me up because as a result of these stupid measures people have died. Johnson, Witty and co have blood on their hands. They killed people with their actions and should face justice. A death due to a disease is a natural cause. A death caused by Government actions is manslaughter at the very least.
Just wait until every pub is fitted with several ‘Alexa’ listening devices, reporting conversations back back to Your Masters.
The Free Speech Union – where free speech is OK as long as it has been approved.
you have been fined 5 credits for breaking the public morality code
Just wait until every pub is fitted with several ‘Alexa’ listening devices, reporting conversations back back to Your Masters.
The Free Speech Union – where free speech is OK as long as it has been approved.
Issue is, I believe, that Internet site owners are responsible for the content, so it can’t go past a certain level. Which is understandable. But I would prefer that level to be by ‘peer pressure’ and not by moderation. Then people can say as they like (within the limit of the law) and if they say something too silly, it will be pointed out to them, and they can drop back a notch, apologise, or just carry on and get ridiculed or eventually thrown out.
It’s a difficult one. Someone will be along to say “if you don’t like it, why not start your own forum?”
Site owners can be responsible for their content I think, unless they are are classed as mere carriers, not publishers. Personally think that anything above the line is “published” and anything below the line is nothing to do with the site – in law at least, possibly unless it’s illegal. Swearing and being horrible are not illegal, not 100% sure about saying people should be killed – that might depend.
While I disapprove of any restriction, I don’t think that it’s got anything to do with making sure posts here follow their editorial line, because they don’t and never have. I expect they are more worried about how some of it looks to people coming here for the first time. I think the swearing thing is just silly though.
Many many years ago I followed a blogger.com site called “isac*nt.com” (one off fair usage for illustrative purpose only).
The general idea was that a reader would nominate a third party to fit that description, Tony Blair an obvious example, while the following comments consisted of reasons why they deserved that sobriquet.
Some nominees attracted dozens of responses and stayed live for several days.
As internet Hate Crime became a thing it started to tone down until only dead people were being nominated and eventually the site wound down.
I was only once involved in a sweary altercatiom on that site because some damned fool nominated Brian Blessed who as everybody knows is in fact a National Treasure.
It’s still going and often has some excellent, witty posts.
Here’s Charlie Mullins, for example:
https://is-a-cunt.com/2022/01/charlie-mullins-3-new-london-mayor/
Wow thank you Emerald, time to take another look.
I thought most of its visitors were grumpy old gammons just like me !
In two years I’ve had perhaps three instances of others being deliberately rude to me. One was Biker, which was of course a privilege.
Another I ignored and never saw again; the third recieved a somewhat frosty public response but we have managed to skirt around each other since.
The majority of us here are big girls and boys who should be able to take such things in our stride.
Free speech union what a
Comment of the day!
Swearing can be tedious – but it never hurt anyone.
Bit like flies buzzing around one’s head…I do prefer the space to be used up by a word that actually communicates something, and was finding the amount of swearing annoying. But I bore it and didn’t complain!!!
Shakespeare refined it some years ago I believe..?
a way around said swearbox algorithm sussed out by a wag over at TCW
type your comment in Notepad or Word (other word processing programs are available) and take a screenshot. Simply paste the screenshot.
Simples.
but it’s OK to troll the forums, to the point it becomes impossible to have a normal forum conversation, change screen name weekly, and troll almost every thread without consiquence…
yeah great moderation policy
/s
What qualifies as “very rude”? I called ‘rational’ a dog yesterday…cos he is.
You’ll be banned.
I agree with you.
I’ll be banned.
Anybody else want to join the Banned Band?
We downgraded the threat posed by the coronavirus on 19th March 2020 when it was quietly removed from the HCID list (High Consequence Infectious Diseases) just a few days before the ‘national emergency’ was announced.
Yes, I send this tid-bit to Karen. It creates a glitch in their matrix.
A small win, but after 2 years of this clown show I’ll take whatever I can get.
Hold your horses Mette
New coronavirus strain found — RT World News
Hmmm…
Right, as you were; everyone back under the bed.
we’ve had the mild cough variant, then the runny nose variant, then the ‘you dont know you have it without being tested’ variant
what could this one be? excessive air wax variant? dandruff variant? shouting ‘arse’ variant?
This one is the mouse variant.
Parturiunt omicrontes, nascitur ridiculus mus.
“and with high rates of vaccination” As if that’s any help.
can we have an automated email about when we are allowed to ‘suggest someone should be killed’ again please? There’s something about Jeremy Vine I need to get off my chest
LMAO!
You’ve won today’s best comment. Brilliant.
And Witless
Far be it from me to suggest that the unexpected but not untimely demise of Witless would be an event that I should greet without feelings of unmitigated regret.
Presumably, this would mean they can’t force the ‘vaccine’ on people; yes?
No way that is going to happen here!
I think the point is that he framework of population control is established, and sales for Big Pharma are assured.
Sorry to be cynical.
Many are now on short term limited commissions in terms of quality of life years, and life years, sadly. Nevertheless one can hope that the human body is stronger and unexpectedly more self-righting than the scheming rotters had thought.
No muzzles? The Danes have faces?
Probably their reward by Klaus, Bill&co for deliberately mistiming their reopening in the autumn (as predicted here back then).
The committee interrogating Javid are not wearing masks, PMQ’s they were, all while he waffles about ‘safety’ and why he needs to contemplate the sacking of NHS workers
I am not swallowing any of this. Something is afoot and I reckon March.
If science can’t be questioned it’s not science anymore. It’s propaganda. They want to rip on people for taking Ivermectin. I researched and saw the evidence on the internet. Research papers are on the internet for those who wants to see. Top respected world doctors are being under defamation by MSM and vaccine manufacturers. I won’t back down recommeding IVM. You can get yours by visiting https://ivmpharmacy.com
Well done Denmark!
I’m especially confused by Italy though. Youth unemployment through the roof but sacking them because they don’t have the V!
Anyway….
The Rotting Woodwork Of The Covidian
Media back track on CV restrictions. Travel unvaccinated.
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Denmark uses a vaccine passport … and since the EU has planned for these for years with an implementation date of 2022, Denmark has not/will not end all Covid restrictions. The EU will enforce vaccine passports, linked to freedom of movement.
https://ec.europa.eu/health/system/files/2019-09/2019-2022_roadmap_en_0.pdf
Exactly. This ‘Vaxx Pass’ is much more serious than many (apparently) realise. This is a control of populations – no jab = we will make your life difficult.
It’s a mafia-style protection racket.
When will the EMERGENCY USE AUTHORISATIONS be dropped. There is no longer an emergency, anywhere.
They are not going to be dropped – ever. Getting it now? After another 20 years it will be a world where people know nothing else but face masks ‘to protect others’ and be a ‘responsible citizen’, and that they have to get their 6-monthly jab for permission to travel.
‘Covid’ is the new religion to keep the masses under control.
When the “new” June Raine approved antivirals get their marketing licence…..you know, the ones that have not been tested but she says they’re OK…..
I believe our government reclassified this disease to less severe on the 19th March 2020 so we were the first to do so. The draconian measures in place since is another question that needs answering.