Britain’s top intelligence agencies are offering summer internships exclusively for black, Asian and ethnically diverse students – leaving white British applicants, even from deprived families, out in the cold. The Telegraph has more.
MI5, MI6 and GCHQ are offering students the opportunity of a paid internship next summer, promising that the opportunity represents the “first steps towards an exciting full-time career”.
It says that summer interns will not “just be sitting on the sidelines – this is your opportunity to get unique access to our operations, gain experience and make key contributions to real projects”.
The advert goes on to explain that the 10-11 week “intelligence internship” is only open to students from a “Black, Asian, mixed heritage or ethnic minority” as well as those from a “socially or economically disadvantaged” background.
But any white British students from socially deprived families would not be considered for internships which could lead to a career as a spy.
The advert explains that they are “confining the applications for this internship to those within this demographic due to a current underrepresentation in our workforce”.
The advert states the internship is open to applications from “white other” groups such as Romany Gypsy, Scottish or Irish Travellers. …
One former senior Royal Air Force (RAF) officer said he believed the decision not to allow poor white students to apply is “blatant discrimination”.
Tim Davies, a former Squadron Leader, said: “Opportunities are being denied to white children, that’s just a fact, they cannot apply just because they are white.”
He said that the RAF had made a similar mistake when pursuing a recruitment policy which led to accusations that it had discriminated against white men in its effort to meet “aspirational diversity targets”.
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