Speaking at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference this week, Michael Gove took aim at a “resentment industry” specialising in the “manufacture of grievance”. Rich companies, he suggests, have formed a “coalition” with the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) industry in order to entrench their wealth and evade criticism. In the Telegraph, Sam Ashworth-Hayes says there’s just one thing missing from Gove’s rage against the EDI machine – the role the Government, and by extension his own party, has played in its development.
Only this year, Parliament seriously debated an amendment to the Equality Act which would have allowed staff to sue their employers if offended by a customer. The bill as passed still mandates “reasonable steps” – essentially training – on sexual harassment, driving more investment into the HR industry. It’s not hard to see how that drives demand for training, policies and other mitigating steps as a result.
The Conservative Party has hardly helped its case by continuing its grand project of outsourcing the responsibility for achieving policy goals into the private sector. Gender pay gap reporting requirements quickly become HR staff requirements, as do the policies needed to deal with any backlash generated.
You don’t need to be in favour of bad bosses or employers to see how this can lead to a bloom in jobs essentially unconnected to the bottom line, particularly when the language used in a 13-year-old law [the Equality Act] can expand in meaning over time.
If, having sat in office for 13 years overseeing these laws, and passed more than a few of them, you believe this is a price worth paying, that’s totally valid.
What sticks in the craw is Jeremy Hunt turning around and asking for fewer Civil Service diversity managers, or Gove railing against the iniquities of the industry. These jobs exist because you mandated them.
Waking up to this problem at the very end of their decade in office is the definition of shutting the door after the horse has bolted.
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The idiots who created Stonewall, erected ESG and endless racist HR mandates now whine in prep for an upcoming election debacle that the beasts are out of control. Resembles the alphabet fascism they have created and the Rona scamdemic fascism they gleefully imposed and enriched themselves from. Cui bono from clown world HR?
And the immigration crisis – the Tories did nothing to stop it and everything to encourage it.
A classic example of the risk of being in office for so long. It’s not easy to blame the opposition after 13 years, but it opens the door for the other side. I suppose using the term “industry” to describe the role of HR is valid, although it can morph into being parasitical inside established organisations.
Just another example of problem, reaction, solution to further tighten the control noose.
Gove is a fully paid up member of the enforcers within the parasite class.
David Icke has more.
What I have been writing for 30 years and this is only part of it. Former Minister Nadine Dorries unveils the shadowy clique manipulating the Tory Party for 20 years (Another clique owns the Labour Party and both cliques answer to a higher clique – the Cult)
https://davidicke.com/2023/11/04/what-i-have-been-writing-for-30-years-and-this-is-only-part-of-it-former-minister-nadine-dorries-unveils-the-shadowy-clique-manipulating-the-tory-party-for-20-years-another-clique-owns-the-labour-pa/
Au revoir Michael may you reap what you sowed.
Is mandating the reason for his marriage breakdown?
Gove “taking aim at a resentment industry,’?
Surely not the same Gove fawning revoltingly on Greta Thunberg?
Are we to suppose that his awestruck admiration for the tiny but petulant school striker was just his attempt at satire?
At least she had an excuse of sorts in being only 16, a bit ‘special’ and blatantly manipulated by her wealthy parents.
What is the excuse for Her Majesty’s Minister of state Michael Gove?
Gove and the LibCONs are very well aware of this: but we’re now in pre-election mode so he’s just saying things which he knows genuine conservatives want to hear.
When the crosses are safely counted and if somehow the LibCONs win (highly unlikely) the left-wing march will resume.
Ignore what they say.
The rise in HR has to be paid for and as other (real) jobs get whittled down by outsourcing or computerisation, the money saved is often wasted on HR. I actually believe that in mature industries where large firms dominate, prices are fixed to cover company costs rather than company costs being kept in check by profits.
what a weak weasel. I’m beginning to think that maybe Dr Peterson is NOT what he portrays himself to be if he gets involved with folks like this… ( PS: I used to vote conservative & now there is NO main party to vote for )
Next, Tories raging against Net Zero and Climate Change Act?
Nothing to do with us guv.
And the Tories were certainly against lockdowns, masks and the mRNA death-juice.