The fire service is “institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic” according to a new report commissioned by the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC). GB News has the details.
The same research has also suggested that firemen’s commitment to “inclusion” is equally as important as their “competence” in leadership programmes. …
The report added that firemen in Britain failed to represent a “diverse” society with less than 10% of the force being made up of women and 5.4% belonging to ethnic minorities, according to data sourced in March 2024.
In wider society, around 51% of the population are women and 18.3% belong to ethnic minorities.
Praised by the NFCC for helping to support “safe and inclusive places to work”, the report said: “The common ‘image’ of a firefighter is, for the most part, of a white heterosexual male turning out in a fire engine to fight fire.
“The diversity of the service needs to be much more reflective of the communities it serves and the wide range of services it delivers.
“Whilst progress has been made, the pace has been slow and progressive action has been applied inconsistently. Too many people are still being let down.” …
“Leadership programmes need to focus as much on inclusion as they do on operational and strategic competence,” the report’s authors wrote. …
NFCC chair Mark Hardingham said the organisation was “committed to delivering” on the report’s findings.
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That’s what they said in California.
Look what happened next.
No need for firefighting if the inferno never starts in the first place…
https://www.city-journal.org/article/la-wildfires-forest-management-regulatory-reform
“…The primary drivers are policy-related. Decades of fire suppression, combined with regulatory inertia, have left forests overgrown and vulnerable. The devastating fires near Los Angeles should serve as a wake-up call—not just to California but to the entire American West.”
Blame Governor Gruesome, the greenies and the arsonists.
“Emergency. Which service?”
”Fire. My house is ablaze!”
”A fire engine is on its way.”
”Well it can turn round and go back unless it’s got at least one black disabled lesbian.”
‘What do you mean? The whole crew are black disabled lesbians from Somalia – or did you want them to come from somewhere else? We will call you back if the blind driver crashes en route….again.’
You have reached 999 the emergency service.
Press 1 for police; 2 for Fire; 3 for Ambulance”
You are through to the Fire Service.
Press 1 for a Black crew
Press 2 for a Muslim crew
Press 3 for a female crew
Press 4 for a crew of indeterminate sex
Press 5 for a crew with disabilities
Press 6 for a diverse crew inclusive of all the prior options
Press 7 for a white, male, heterosexual crew…beeeep… sorry that option is no longer available.
Press # If you would like to hear the options again.
“Thank you for selecting option 2. As you live in Cornwall the nearest Muslim firefighters are in Bristol and will take 3-4 hours to reach you”
“Press # if you wish to select a different option”
We need Firefighters who are first of all capable of saving lives, carrying people out of burning buidings, putting out fires. Stop with the DEI crap they are putting lives at risk whilst they prioritise Government targets over the safety of the public.
I wonder who are the people at the top doing this? are they similar to the Californinian lot who caused the deaths and destruction of California because of their woke ideology
Very true, who gives a toss what colour they are….Can they carry an 18 stone bloke who has passed out down a ladder. America gave us PC & Woke, now they are ending it, so the UK zealots are doubling down. These cultural Marxists should just go away and shut up!
What I don’t get is this part: “The diversity of the service needs to be much more reflective of the communities it serves and the wide range of services it delivers.”
Why in the world must any emergency service or organization reflect the local community? As soon as they say that you know full well that meritocracy is going down the toilet and you’re going to get substandard candidates filling those roles due to better applicants being passed over, as per the ridiculous term ”positive discrimination”. Well no discrimination is positive is it? But apparently discriminating against white, straight men ( seriously, what has anybody’s sexual preferences got to do with anything? ) gets a free pass and by their ‘logic’ is in fact fair.
And just because the best applicants for a particular role might be white men does not by default mean that everybody else is being treat unfairly. This is a total and utter nonsense and this crapola is going to cost lives. Look at this cringeworthy clip;
”The scariest part of this woke nonsense is when she admits she’s not strong enough to carry a man out of a fire, but it’s really the man’s fault for being in that situation to begin with.”
https://x.com/Not_the_Bee/status/1877461717933801567
The only way they can increase the diversity within the fire service is by lowering the standards and positive discrimination.
At that point the fundamental ethos of the fire service changes to “we care more about our DEI credentials than saving people”.
I’m past caring frankly… it’s finishing, these are the last dying swishes of the tail of the DIE monster.
Strong male firemen only
Sounds awfully suss!
My apologies, I am assuming maleness. Please forgive me.
Does sound a bit like an ad in a ‘Lonely Hearts’ column, I’ll be honest.
Perhaps all these virtue signalling onanists would care to relinquish their sinecures so that those with the best claim to all the ethnic, mental, sexual or physical attributes can have their turn at the trough.
What a load of bull. It makes me sick.
And the NFCC Chair is a white male himself, which makes him even more of a hypocritical epic woketard. Actually he’s got an impressive career history, but it obviously all went wrong when he became a victim of the highly infectious woke mind virus. I mean, 25 years ago did he really think: ”Hmmm, this place looks way too white and macho for my liking. We need to change that. We need women and we need brown faces, and we need them NOW!” Actually, maybe any ladies can be delegated to ‘rescuing cats out of trees’ duty, which even I’d struggle to do as I hate heights.
”Mark began his fire service career 33 years ago in Essex and served across many fire stations and in many roles. He was appointed as the Deputy Chief Fire Officer in Suffolk in 2010 and then Chief Fire Officer and County Council Director in 2013-2021. Alongside his Chief Fire Officer role he held Director responsibilities in the Council for Highways, Passenger Transport, Emergency Planning, Trading Standards, Community Safety, Equality and Inclusion and Health & Safety.”
https://nfcc.org.uk/about/nfcc-chair/
The Great Donald would have him dragged out of the building.
The man is a textbook example of a traitor. In this case, to fellow white men. And you would think that having such an extensive career in the fire brigade he’d know first hand just how bloody ( detri )mental and plain unsafe this entire woke charade is in this particular context. How can somebody be that far gone in the head that they abandon all common sense and write off shed-loads of lived experience over the years? Laughably, in the above bit I shared, his responsibilities include “Equality and Inclusion” and “Health and Safety”. So surely the latter cancels the former out, as both cannot co-exist? It’s like parody, it really is.
Indeed, it’s lunacy.
When are these chaos hungry grifting cockroaches actually going to be expunged from our institutions?
I don’t know how they can endure the heat from wearing all their necessary protective gear, and the heat from the fire, the heat from all that physical exertion of bashing in doors and windows to rescue people, even carrying them down a ladder sometimes in the heat of summer, without passing out themselves from sheer exhaustion.
It is one of the most difficult, dangerous jobs in the world, and they should be paid higher salaries than politicians; yet many are actual volunteers, risking life and limb to save the lives of others. May God bless them all.
“ It matter not whether the cat is black or white as long as it catches mice “
Why does the service need to reflect the community it serves? Do we start recruiting rapists, murderers and thieves? No, the service should reflect the most capable people for job…
I seem to recall that the last time the FBU had a female chief the result was the Grenfell fire. Is that what we want again?
As long as women and ethnic minorities have equal access to apply for firefighter roles where’s the problem?
It is possible that certain disabilities may make some people ineligible for this highly demanding job! There may also be requirements relating to height, age, physical build and level of fitness.
Equality of Opportunity.
Ability to undertake all requirements of the role is paramount, regardless of the applicant! It used to be called merit.
“In wider society, around 51% of the population are women and 18.3% belong to ethnic minorities.”
Sadly, it’s this illogical postmodernist neo-Marxist nonsense that’s a cancer on our once merotocratic society.
How this anti-intellectual, anti-scientific and deeply cynical theory ever managed to escape academic scrutiny is quite baffling (ages deeply worrying).