Just as the corporate world is finally waking up to the catastrophic damage EDI has caused over the last four years, Labour is about to make it worse than you can possibly imagine.
In an earlier article I examined how corporate and public sector ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) commitments have forced EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) down the supply chain onto hapless small to medium-sized businesses through procurement policies which demand suppliers implement it.
In this article I want to explore where we go from here in light of a Labour Manifesto which, should the party win power, has serious implications for employers and especially smaller businesses by making the imposition of EDI through the supply chain a statutory requirement. What are the implications and how are British employers, especially the smaller ones, who employ 62% of all workers, going to fare?
The EDI Debate
It may come as a surprise to many readers that since the publication of the Cass Report earlier this year there has been a robust and open debate on LinkedIn between senior executives about how EDI has backfired, producing the opposite results to those intended. Many are now having second thoughts and the corporate world is some steps ahead of the Labour Party in understanding how damaging this has been to our economy. The much touted McKinsey report on the positives of DEI (American EDI) has been roundly debunked as hokum yet is still quoted by Anneliese Dodds, Labour’s Chair. As I discussed previously, much of this has been down to the implementation of EDI rife with Critical Race Theory, lifted from American sources and sold by chancers into U.K. businesses, desperate to virtue-signal post George Floyd.
The conclusion many are coming to is that ‘good EDI’ is extremely difficult to deliver and has to be handled extremely sensitively, being specifically written for the nuances of the target market. How much of this is a result of the more responsible EDI providers waking up to the fact that their days might be numbered and frantically re-packaging, and how much is the industry recognising it has made a catastrophic error is currently unclear. Can we expect it to dawn on employers that they have no business ‘re-educating’ their employees whatsoever and that EDI training is a gross overreach and interference in their lives? We can certainly hope so.
Who exactly thought it would be a good idea to imply that your employees and colleagues are all incorrigible bigots, racists, homophobes and transphobes who require ‘re-education’? Because, even if ‘good EDI’ doesn’t do that, the reality is that an awful lot of it does and as a result the entire concept of EDI training is irredeemably flawed. The concepts behind EDI have no business being trained as facts in the real world and should only exist in theoretical debate in the academy. It is naive of HR Professionals to think that ‘good EDI’, involving nuanced discussions with employees, wouldn’t simply degenerate into any other corporate training format, complete with zero tolerance enforcement.
Employers who have spent tens of millions on employee engagement now face a reality that out of the 65% of British workers who have been trained in EDI in their most recent or last jobs, a whopping 31% say they left a previous employer because they objected to the EDI policies and training at that employer. That rises to 43% for black employees, 46% for Asian and 46% for LGBT.
So to my colleagues who are desperately trying to shore up EDI as a valid and positive contribution to the workplace, I say: sorry folks – the boat has sailed, the grift is over. EDI is a failure, should never have been implemented and has caused catastrophic damage to our economy. It is time to dismantle it and repair the damage and make a commitment to our employees and colleagues that we will never, ever seek to force politics or ideologies on them again.
Only, that won’t happen. As I write we are facing a Labour landslide on July 4th. Labour’s Manifesto and it’s New Deal for Workers have some serious consequences for businesses and employers and especially for smaller businesses. You won’t be surprised to read that Labour puts EDI front and centre, promising to make it a statutory requirement for procurement to demand suppliers of all sizes can demonstrate that they have trained their staff in EDI and have ‘robust’ EDI policies in the workplace. Now, you can argue that this has pretty much become universal over the last 10 years under the Conservative Government, but there is a problem. Just as companies were on the cusp of waking up to the extent of the damage and huge costs, the sackings of resistant employees, the devastating impact on productivity, just on the cusp of winding this back in the corporate world, with the knock-on effect through the supply chain, along comes Labour to enforce it through law.
Last month Sir Keir Starmer claimed that his Government would “tread lightly on people’s lives”. If this is what he means by that then God help us all.
How to protect your business
It appears very likely at this point that Labour will win a big majority which will allow it to implement its manifesto and New Deal for Workers in full. Even more disconcerting is the form that EDI will take under Labour. Despite promising to implement the Cass Report findings, Starmer’s manifesto appears to promise gender self-ID through the back door and, worryingly, a ban on ‘conversion therapy’ which will essentially reverse the findings of the Cass Report. So what will be the implications for the hundreds of thousands of gender critical women, many of whom have been unlawfully fired over the last few years in an emerging national scandal? Furthermore there are promises to further legislate against racism, Islamophobia and LGBT outside the Equality Act 2010, which was meant to be the final say on discrimination in the U.K. This will result in the divisive and controversial move of ‘intersectional’ victimhood groups becoming elevated for special protection under law.
Add to this the plans for the extension of worker’s rights from two years to day one of employment and you have the cocktail for the weaponisation of new employment and equality laws against employers. The new legions of disgruntled workers will be able to call on help from their union because, as a sop to the unions, Labour plans to force employers to promote union membership and to allow ‘shop stewards’ access to workers who are not union members themselves in the workplace. There are no details as to whether small businesses will be exempt but given that the unions have been desperate to get into SMEs (employers under 250 workers) which employ some 62% of British workers, I suspect that this will include at least some of those employers.
Just how the hell is an employer meant to manage this? Small businesses don’t have HR departments. How is an SME meant to stand up to a union? How is an SME meant to deploy EDI training, forced on it by law, without destroying workplace and colleague relations that have taken decades to form?
I suspect the Free Speech Union will be very busy over the next five years. My colleagues and I founded the Fair Job Initiative to give SMEs support and guidance over how to protect their businesses from activism and politics. We’re now rapidly forming strategies to cope with the plethora of laws Labour wants to impose – watch this space. In the meantime, we have recently introduced monthly subscriptions to allow the very smallest of employers to affordably join the initiative. Only by uniting can we have a voice, while existing organisations meant to stand up for small businesses are as captured as any other of our institutions.
Batten down the hatches, it is going to get a lot worse before it gets any better.
C.J. Strachan is the pseudonym of a concerned Scot who worked for 30 years as a Human Resources executive in some of the U.K.’s leading organisations. Subscribe to his Substack. He is a founder of Fair Job, an accreditation and support service for small businesses to help them navigate the minefields of EDI and HR.
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Who the hell are the satisfied 29%??
People whose in-laws recently sadlydied in NHS care?
The SuddenlyDied™ and the SadlyDied™…
And the 100%SafeAndEffectives™ …
The lazy, overpaid gits who work in it.
The satisfied are the Doctors.
I work in the NHS and, for the few (mainly Doctors), it’s a licence to print money.
They’ll pay lip service to the state of the NHS but behind closed doors they’re rubbing their hands in glee.
There’s only one reason for the present crisis and that’s the GP’s are in a sulk because they’re now expected to see and treat patients after their extended paid leave during Covid and it’s not going down well. In retaliation for being expected to work they’ve taken to diverting the patients to A&E, preferably in an expensive Ambulance. No one questions them and so the A&E car park is rammed with Ambulances, filled with trivial ailments that the GP’s refuse to deal with.
Their Doctor colleagues in A&E gladly accept them and keep their mouths shut so that they can all keep their snouts in the trough.
You’d think they’d have some shame after slaughtering tens of thousands during Covid but they know they’re teflon with the general public so can basically do whatever they please.
Whilst I was abroad a little while back, my wife had an accident. She snapped the ball off one her femurs bones. My neighbour Whatapped me to tell me my wife had had an accident, I could hear her whining like a beaten dog in the background.
Luckily I have for some great neighbours who stayed all of the 12 hours it took for the ambulance to arrive. The hospital was only 4 miles away from my house.
Although it was unsettling to hear my wife crying like that the thing that really scared me was if she moved and dislodged a bone fragment which could possible pierce her femoral artery and she would bleed in.
Speaking of unhappiness, here is an issue the NHS have been rubbish at tackling these last couple of years; loneliness.
Useless NHS!
https://rumble.com/vsgwlc-unvaccinated-man-feeling-left-out-as-all-his-vaccinated-friends-have-covid.html
And the solution is: Coronascrabble! Everytime you get a boring old cold, keeping testing until you finally hit the jackpot. Once you’ve managed to get a positive test, you may swap the old and boring L in C-O-L-D for a fresh and exciting V-I to make C-O-V-I-D and then, you belong again!
Masks not included.
You may have hit on something! “L” in Roman numerals is 50. “VI” is 6. The ratio is roughly 8.3. As a bit of a mystic meg, I wonder if between 8 and 9 “cases” of covid are actually colds?
Not quite. Roman numbers always proceed from large to small. If a small number is placed in front of a larger one, it’s meant to be subtracted from it. Hence LD = 500 – 50 = 450 and VID is probably a swapped DIV which is 504.
Assuming the 450 was placed in a cyclic, decimal shift register and rotated one place to the left, the outcome would be 504. Which gets me back to my original point: COVID is that The Science[tm] makes out of COLD with Fancy Computer Tech[tm]. Among afficionados, COVID is thus also informally known as Smart Cold, a disease globally deployed in numerous variants since 2020 and originally supposed to enable ModeRNA to finally come to market with some product based on their innovative As Dangerous As Useless[tm] (patent pending) mRNA technology. The codename for this was Operation Daft Sweep.
Conspiracy Theory Thursday: Why the mad drive to inject more and more people with covaxxes despite they’re not the least bit at a risk from COVID?
Answer: If everybody – or almost everybody – is vaccinated, especially a lot of younger people who are generally more robust wrt infections than members of the so-called vulnerable groups, then, nobody will notice that we have a real killer product here, at least for some time.
How many of the people who got the first round injections in Dec 2020/ Jan 2021 because they were deemed especially vulnerable are still alive?
Interestingly in the early 2000s research into coronaviruses used a PCR test to identify ~396 base pairs. The same tests are being used to identify ‘covid’…. How many of of those positive tests have found something which is similar?
A basic this is the science behind the process, so how the hell can what is claimed to be found be true?
Well, this is a real ‘No Shit Sherlock’ story isn’t it?
One assumes it’s quite challenging for most of the staff to remain motivated and cheerful as they come to terms with their blind cooperation in this grotesquely horrific medical holo-caust.
Does anybody know if there’s an increase in ambulance call outs in the UK ( or wherever you are ) still? Here’s Dr Bridle observing the significant increase in such calls in a part of Canada, way higher than when there was a deadly virus on the loose and no ”highly effective” pseudo-vaccines to protect folk;
”Notably, this increase correlates with increases in all-cause mortality around the world. Would it be worth considering the ‘elephant in the room’; i.e., the possibility that the COVID-19 shots might have a role to play here? Any experts who definitively say ‘“no” better have some solid data to prove it.
It would be great if we could get paramedic service data from all across Canada and other countries. Specifically, it would be helpful to know what call volumes looked like in 2020 (no shots but a ‘deadly virus that overwhelmed the medical system’), 2021 and 2022 (‘COVID-19 ‘vaccine’ rollout), and pre-pandemic (baseline).”
https://viralimmunologist.substack.com/p/call-volume-for-paramedics-went-down
I popped into my local hospital to find that you must wear a mask again. It’s mandatory! This is insane as not only do they do nothing in relation to any airborne virus but they are single use plastic. How much money has been spent on masks and who has the contract to supply them? In addition there was a poster saying something about ZeroCovid!!!! For **** sake, has nothing been learned in 3 years? Why is anyone pushing the insane idea that you can completely eliminate Covid and now? I now have a visceral dislike of any intent that involves the word ‘zero’. There is nothing good in it.
Mandatory only in some administrator’s warped view of the world with no knowledge of the lawful position on consent to a medical intervention – masking is a medical intervention – the simplest thing to do is to say that you’re exempt.
Also, the taxpayer will pay for these and probably for the management of procuring them as well as disposal. we paid for the ‘vaccines’ and we will pay for damages caused by the ‘vaccines’.
Well if doctors and nurses are still seeing fit to bump off old folk with their midazolam/morphine death cocktail then they won’t think anything of continuing to fly in the face of an Everest-sized mountain of contradictory evidence and keep dehumanizing patients in the face-nappy dept too. Because that’s basically how they see most patients, as subhuman, or so it would seem anyway. Here’s a documentary, for anyone who hasn’t yet seen it, on the whole morphine/midazolam thing. As much as I despise Handcockup, the buck stops with the doctors who prescribe this death sentence and the nurses who administer it.
https://odysee.com/@Belfasteye.com:9/aGoodDeath:1
Agreed, Net Zero the same. Did this start with Pol Pot and his Year Zero, which also sounds similar to a ‘Great Reset’?
Just refuse. Firstly as BB says these are a medical intervention and secondly ask to see written confirmation that they are mandatory and under whose authority because it is not government.
Of course the structural issues within the NHS were already there but the following piece of excellent journalism shows who was responsible for driving all the terrible decisions that have pushed many of our institutions into untenable positions. Perhaps there was intent in all this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FPQJD-fQQI&t=0s
Amazing True Story: The Actual Origins of Lockdown ‘Science’ !
Here is a Short from this video showing a very key person – Bruce Aylward.
https://youtu.be/lbe1ISGHS4k
Here is Bruce Aylward being asked why Taiwan is not recognized by the WHO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlCYFh8U2xM
I hope the connection is clear?
let’s hope the public soon wake up to the real reason for the inadequacy of the NHS like all the public sector, is nothing to do with a lack of money.
More people, more money is the cry of those unable to think critically. The NHS already consumes 1 in every £10 of the tax take and employs 1 in 25 working age adults. How much more can we give it..?
“You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.” – Thomas Sowell
The NHS will never get fixed. Politically, Labour make out that it is a national treasure and the envy of the world and that “The Evil Tories” want to destroy; however, when they get in power they are clueless and fearful of reform (and upsetting the Public Sector unions). The Conservatives are so frightened of the media outcry if they even attempt reform that they just pump more money into it and continue the status quo.
It’ll take war or the government facing bankrupcy before real reform takes place.
What a wonderful job lockdown did protecting the NHS.
/s
Wonder how many would be outside every week banging their pots and pans nowadays…
Doesn’t pot-banging bring on ‘Sudden Death Syndrome’ or Sadly Died Syndrome first identified by The Science ™ in 1977 as a silent killer? (along with happiness)
Senator Babet is one to watch down under. He’s the same on other issues such as trans ideology and climate twaddle. Good man! But 97.5% Aussies over 16yrs have been jabbed though??
https://twitter.com/goddeketal/status/1638885872769679360?cxt=HHwWgIC-nZSBv74tAAAA
You have to wonder how much money would be enough for the 50% who think it doesn’t get enough.
The administrative bureaucracy of the management layer is now so dense no increase in funding money could ever reach the front line
Let’s hope people don’t think the problem is under funding.
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They do! There seem to be an awful lot of people who won’t be happy until 100% of our tax take is funding ‘our’ NHS.
Remember the psyop. Clap for the NHS. I thought it was daft then. It looks insane now! I honestly believe (and hope) that the NHS is finished. We need a new system that promotes healthy living and that is not beholden to big pharma.
I thought we were clapping the TikTok videos
Echoing Miss Dolly’s comment, whenever I mention the NHS and how difficult it is to see a GP (I havent seen one face to face for 4 years!!!!), my friends living in the countryside would say how wonderful their local NHS is! From GP appointments to hospitalisation, they are thrilled and satisfied. So, my question is, is it the London based NHS service that is failing us? But not the countryside? If so, why are the city hospitals and GP’s so incompetent?
“Majority of Public Unhappy with NHS for First Time…”
Just woke up have they?
Just shows what a nations of nitwits Britain is. They deserve all they get – or in the case of the NHS, don’t get.
Amazingly high level of support considering they have spent the last 2 years peddling a lethal injection for us. Wait till the majority understand the full implications of this crime….
Meanwhile staff TikTok routines are going from strength to strength
Very very depressing. Yesterday I “enjoyed” the company of friends from my old workplace . Without going into too much detail I had lunch with one lot and dinner with a different set. To a man and woman they were fully engaged with government policy over covid. All had been fully “vaccinated” and boosted and proud of it. The final coup de grace came when one proudly announced he has just bought an electric car!
Naturally, because of my views I was passed off as a conspiracy theorist and told I had “gone down too many ‘worm’ holes”!
Thank God for you lot!