Much was made during the last government of the need to reduce civil service headcount. Jeremy Hunt specifically targeted useless diversity roles plaguing Whitehall. Guido thought he would see how much progress has been made on that front this year…

Guido fired Freedom of Information requests to all major departments to inquire about the headcounts of their central Equality, Diversity and Inclusion teams. It will surprise no one that far from cutting their diversity staff the civil service is actually increasing their numbers. One agency is now offering pay rises to those who ‘champion diversity‘…

DSIT, the Cabinet Office, DBT, MoJ, HMRC, and the Home Office have all expanded their diversity teams since the start of the year. More staff are of course needed to organise further George Floyd struggle sessions and meetings with witches...

The Home Office takes the inglorious first prize with a whopping 37 staff in its central DEI team. Only the DWP has honourably cut more than one DEI staff member since the start of the year, getting rid of about ten Higher Executive Officers. The rest have maintained their numbers. The woke blob marches on…