The Environment Agency is offering 40 summer internships, but says white people need not apply as the positions are only for people of “diverse” backgrounds in an egregious example of official anti-white discrimination.
Reform MP Rupert Lowe called it “disgusting discrimination” and promised to follow it up in a tweet:
The Environment Agency is offering FORTY internships to candidates ONLY from a “Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background”. Racism is acceptable when white people are excluded.
@EnvAgency? It’s disgusting discrimination and I will be following this up.
The 12-week scheme at the Government body is designed to provide interns with “valuable experience complementing your studies and supporting your personal and professional growth”. It offers 40 staff positions employed either full-time or part-time attracting a £24,096 annual salary.
The agency claims it is a “positive action measure as listed in the Equality Act 2010 helping people overcome certain barriers and improve representation across our workforce” and invites people to apply only if “from a diverse background”.
This is defined as “a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background”, further specified to mean the Government’s “agreed list” of ethnic groups as used in the 2021 census, namely:
“Asian or British Asian”, “Black, Black British, Caribbean or African”, “Mixed or multiple ethnic groups” and “any other ethnic group”.
Notably, the “White” category is excluded completely, which means not just “White British” but people from any other “White background” as well. In other words, it’s all about not having the wrong pale skin pigmentation. Could you get any more racist?
The application pack includes some testimonials. “Jacob” said:
My 12 weeks at the Environment Agency’s Summer Development Internship Programme (SDIP) gave me exactly what I was looking for: a chance to see how environmental protection works at a national level, and a positive culture to foster my professional development.
Aiyesha said:
My time at the EA has been nothing short of transformative. It provided me with invaluable insights into the work being done on the environment and gave me the platform where I could truly make a social impact. The experience and my team not only challenged me but also empowered me to excel and contribute meaningfully to help mitigate the impacts of climate change!
Ethan said:
I have had such a great experience during the Summer Development Internship Programme, having been so lucky to become a part of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion team who have been so welcoming and encouraging throughout the experience.
Heaven forbid that the white working class should have access to such valuable work experience.
Government guidance on the Equality Act allows that providing internships “exclusively to the target group to learn more about particular types of work opportunities with the employer” is a permitted form of “positive action”, provided the employer has “evidence” the group is “experiencing barriers” and the action is “proportionate to addressing the problem you have identified”.
This is guidance issued in 2023 under the Sunak Government, so you can blame the Tories for allowing this strain of divisive anti-white discrimination to continue and not putting a stop to it during the 14 years they were in power.
Stop Press: Health Data Research U.K., a charity part-funded by taxpayers, runs a “Health Data Science Black Internship Programme” just for black people – not black British, but any black people, as long as they’re at a U.K. university or recently graduated from one. Got to love that ‘Equality’ Act.
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This is hardly surprising from the anti-white government of the Anti-white Party (formerly the Labour Party). What is surprising is the brazenness of their anti-whitism. And it’s interesting that the anti-whitists still pretend The Great Replacement is a “conspiracy” and thereby false, whereas in fact The Great Replacement is the foundational project of the Anti-white Party and this vile government of ours.
It just always amazes me that it’s white people being anti-white. Make it make sense! In this scenario blame Chief Exec Philip Duffy. Another white man in a leadership position, in charge of an organization/department that’s been captured by the woke mind virus and adheres to DEI-discriminatory BS. There’s no shortage of these people, going all out to screw over fellow white citizens, though, is there?
Weak chairman too, desperate to overcome his perceived massive privilege in life [Winchester, Oxford], not a good look. I saw him at a party last week, he looked thoroughly miserable, may be wondering how he ended up in this useless position, where the EA gets almost everything 180 deg wrong
There is a certain mindset of people who tend to get these senior jobs in our institutions, education, corporates, media. They are, essentially, rewarded for pushing their narrative. Conversely, those not signing up to the narrative are excluded during any job application process. The whole dynamic has therefore become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I am going to repeat myself – we have a government not just committing treason but one which is blatantly focused on treason as a a matter of policy.
I love looking at old footage that’s been colourised. It makes it feel like it wasn’t so long ago, or that it’s not real but a TV programme depicting life from years gone by. England’s never looked so homogenous, and it sure as hell doesn’t resemble London today;
”Many men; fathers, sons, uncles and brothers, were lost after WW2.
But we were a united country with community, a culture and values worth fighting for.
Much of that feels lost in our age of mass migration, but we’ve had bad times before and will have good times again.”
https://x.com/darrengrimes_/status/1867302449251246157
The Uniparty strikes again. It has to be Reform at every Election from now on.
Heaven knows the mayhem that whitey might cause, even one of them. Obviously it is deeply offensive and completely absurd because all I would have to do as a white male would be to identify as a black disabled transgender lesbian and they couldn’t argue with that according to their own creed. Infiltration would be easy and conversion to any concept of Aryan supremacy would be rather easy too given the falseness of their creed. This is not a belief system built to last. It is just a distraction that will hopefully go on long enough so that they can get away with all the spoils.
I have lived all over and I would say that any organisation would benefit from having white people in there. I know these are squalid entities but I mean if you were thinking about genuine benefit then you would welcome the aspect of the western spirit that looks for constant transcendence. You could say that this spirit has led us into this preopsterous cul de sac but I guarantee you that a grouping without a talented white person will never win against a grouping that contains a talented white person because for one thing they would lack the transcendent notion of real victory. It is a genuine thing I don’t say this out of some self-congratulatory spirit.
Well done to Will Jones & the DS for featuring this appalling news. The Reform Party’s Rupert Lowe has once again wheeled out the cannon for a broadside, defending his own Indigenous British People and their right to exist in their own ancestral homeland.
As someone said,
“I stand with the White Folks, because no one else will.”
https://youtu.be/kV_UdCNq0kE?si=H_RM8LHCR-weTsBC
58 civilians killed yesterday in Gaza… Didnt hear about that did you, strangely enough…
Trump played the peace card…
More sense from Gerald Celente
Levels of suffering that we can’t comprehend. If you lose that ability to cpmprehend then you lose everything. The things that you value will mean nothing because their loss meant nothing to you when it was someone else. You just turn yourself into devalued currency for the sake of an entity that wishes to kill you.
The Environment Agency is revealing itself as racist in more than one way – it believes that the only people stupid enough to nod along unquestioningly with its Net Zero propaganda are the ethnic minorities.
Yes, this is a racist policy.
But would you really want to work for an organization like this?
Should I be prevented from working for such an organization because of unduly careless choice of parents, which seems to be the logic behind this policy?
And what evidence does the environment agency have that people from so-called minority ethnic backgrounds¹ have trouble landing jobs with the environment agency because of its racist employment policies? Doesn’t that sound a bit self-contradictory?
¹ Other white, the charming offical designation for white people who are neither British nor Irish is a minority ethnicity, too.
It is interesting to look back at apartheid in South Africa, one of the issues was, who and how you decided on someones race? I raise this point because some years ago when we were having a census I phoned their help line and said I was unsure of how to answer the racial origin question and could they assess me and make a decision?…………. shock horror, certainly not, you have to decide for yourself,
And so I said that if, despite all appearances to the contrary I identified as Afro-Caribbean, that would be OK? they said that would be very silly but they would accept it. And so I have to ask what is this racial differentiation? how is it defined and enforced? If an apparently white person applied and said they were Afro-Caribbean would the Environment Agency make a decision on that persons race? To my mind the only answer is to ignore race, gender etc. and make the selection based on an objective assessment of ability, interest enthusiasm etc.
You mean, real equality? Why do the big organisations find that such a scary concept?
I and I identify as a black man, but only on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. I hope they interview on one of these days or I would be offended.
The Equality Act ‘positive action’ provisions are a one-way street. A public body can take positive action if ‘participation in an activity by persons who share a protected characteristic [not just race] is disproportionately low’, but if it’s disproportionately high, it cannot take action to reduce the proportion – that would be discrimination. Absolute madness.
What if you’ve got a tan?
There seems to be an idea that you have to have equal representation everywhere, even if it means appointing less able people to do the job. But perhaps people from certain groups are simply not interested in particular industries. How many men do you see teaching in primary schools? How many men work as carers in the community? How many Muslim women work as bar staff? How many women do you see emptying rubbish bins? Where is the outcry about under-representation in those areas?
I had to first check that today Is not 1st April. Is this even legal? It certainly ought not to be. How about crowd funding a legal challenge and giving this maximum publicity during the legal process. I mean, lesser versions of this blatant discrimination abound in so many of the UK’s institutions and employers but the blatancy of this one from the Environment Agency is reaching a new low. It would be hilarious were it not so serious.
See my comment above. It is likely to be legal.
Identify as black?
I read recently that up to 60% of all job appointments since 2020 have been ‘diverse’. This is why we suddenly find our institutions being run by minorities, and increasingly for the interests of minorities,
Reform needs to pledge to scrap the Equality Act. It is being used to implement Inequality.
Headline Summary: Racist
Most (not all) of these groups arguing for proportionate representation have no argument.
Roughly 14% of the population are classed as non-white, so if an organisation has at least 14% of its staff/workforce (or whatever) then it is proportionately represented.
You could maybe make arguments within that 14% about proportionality.
It seems a lot of organisation making these claims about lack of representation already have levels at 14% and usually much higher.
TV drama’s and adverts I would suggest are more than adequately represented by nonwhite’s.
“an egregious example of official anti-white discrimination.”
No it’s not, it’s racism!
Some people claim racism can only be one way. An acquaintance of mine was shocked to learn from the person leading their diversity training that there is no such thing as anti-white racism.