Our new Government seems, as expected, to have put climate and energy at the top of its agenda. The Secretary of State for Net Zero and Energy Security, Ed Miliband, is back in office with the energy brief he lost in 2010 and full of enthusiastic zeal for Net Zero, despite the public comprehensively rejecting Milibandism in 2015. But this enthusiasm belies serious instability in the relationship between the Government and the public. According to news reports, Miliband believes the public has given Labour a mandate to act on his green zeal. Here are some reasons why Miliband is wrong – there is no such mandate, and the Government would be foolish to let him act like a kid in sweetshop with the public’s credit card.
In a recent interview with Sky News, an exuberant and confident Ed Miliband told Kay Burley:
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Sort of off topic, but I looked into FairJob (am trying to persuade my boss to sign up). It’s a fine initiative from what I can see. One thing that did make me think was this part of the Colleague Code of Conduct – Fair Job UK
On the face of it, it’s a statement one could agree with. My slight worry is that the “woke left” don’t see pushing their pet issues as “political debate” – they see it as the truth, the obvious truth, the science, the facts, what any right-thinking person would think. They think that their pet issues are beyond politics and that their opinions are uncontroversial. So they may well just plough on regardless with their views, and when you push back they will say “ah, you horrid far right person, you’re bringing politics into the workplace”.
Anyway, well done C J Strachan and it will be interesting to hear in the coming period how this initiative develops. I have a dream that one day they will be able to publish a long list of employers who have signed the pledge and those of us who suffer from “far right” opinions can use it as a resource when looking for employment.
Thanks for your feedback,
We’ve been working through what was called the ‘Pledge’ and the “Code’ and have made some changes – firstly we have replaced ‘pledge’ with ‘principle’ and also removed the idea of ‘committing’. Although the project is apolitical – merely being that results in ‘far right’ smears .. it’s the old ‘if you aren’t an ally you’re an enemy/silence is violence’ lie.
We understand that employers are naturally nervous about this so have set it up to be less formal, employers can either choose to openly state that they follow the principles or otherwise.
Point taken about the ‘political’ mention in that- we are changing it to ‘activism’ /
Brian Armstrong’s statement was pretty succinct.
If your boss wants any more info just get in touch we have a 15% off sale and have recently altered our membership levels to be simpler.
best
CJ
Thanks; much appreciated and all the best. I didn’t used to post anonymously here but I do now since our founder starting pushing BLM, though we did push back on that with some success.
We cover this in our latest FAT PIG NEWS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNlpkuphHiY
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Well, have I just had a fabulous chat with a neighbour I have never met although she lives round the corner about 100 yards away.
I was just posting a sticker on a lamp post warning of potentially looming farming issues when a voice behind me declared “I agree with you.”
I was a bit startled and turned round to face a lovely young woman and the conversation started. We must have spent 40 minutes discussing the current state of play. It was bloody marvellous. Every single topic we were on the same page. Bloody wonderful. She assured me that there are quite a lot of people locally who have awoken and she said even the die-hard jabbers have said “no more.”
Honestly it was like finding a long lost friend. We could have chatted for hours.
I feel properly perked up.
It is wonderful when that happens. A little bit like taking a girl home for the first time and finding that glow when you do nothing but talk and laugh.
In a similar vein, I know someone – a director of a SME – who refuses to interview any candidate whose CV has a “preferred pronoun”. Too much hassle.
Common sense. It is a very underrated quality these days. Sadly.
Splendid. But if anyone found out who he was he would be up before a tribunal for discrimination before you could say pronoun. When I shortlisted people for junior doctor posts I had a whole series of exclusions. After all, when you have over 200 applicants you can’t interview them all or you would never get any work done. Was I discriminating? Yes. Did it really matter? No.
In the case of listed companies shareholder activism should have restrained the management and Board. There could even now be action against those who performed less well on account of misallocation of resources towards political objectives.
a true conservative or reformist government would call to account all Quangos and permanent secretaries. They should also demand accounting from NGOs international enter ties and charities which have received tax payer funds.
In the UK the Electoral Commission Commissioners should be required to explain Commissioners they did not apply the law against campaigners who were not registered campaign organisations. Most were not registered
Another terrific article. Many thanks C J.
Powerful stuff! And encouraging that the author is seeing signs that the tide is turning, slowly but surely. I hope so.
Politics also needs removing from sport. Taking the knee in homage to a lifelong druggie thief was disgraceful. All it did was make some people very, very rich as they embezzled the donations.
I see a couple of comments saying “the tide is turning”, well, didn’t go fully back to the horizon when nobody bought Budweiser? The advent of “Go Woke Go Broke” ensured it won’t come back in. The answer to all of this is simple: do not buy the products and refuse to take a job with companies that implement these policies.