It seems Liz’s anti-woke Civil Service policy can’t come a moment too soon: a co-conspirator gets in touch revealing Department for Work & Pension mandarins have been instructed to hold compulsory “race ally” discussions in all team meetings this week. The email, sent to Guido with the subject “for Action: Let’s Talk about Allyship”, proves the department’s BAME Inclusion Group has instructed team leads to “deliver this topic in your team/clusters in August and do not forget to complete the feedback form.”
“It is too easy to think that personally you are not affected by racism, so it is not your problem, or that because you are not a racist person then you are doing enough.
What you can do is be an ally. Not just a race ally, but an ally for all who may need your support.
Please deliver this topic in your teams/clusters in August and do not forget to complete the feedback form. This is on a link in the slide and will help us to look at what works for you and how we can improve things.”
Not to be overlooked, the EAD BAME inclusion group also reminds Civil Servants “there is a Pronoun Sheet with your names so please do not forget to go in and include how you would like to be called and how you pronounce your name. Let’s make a real effort to get people’s name right”. Ironically, the email came from someone without pronouns in their signature…
Whatever could Coffey be talking about…
Liz Truss’s calls for the Civil Service to ditch identity politics and focus on “facts, not fashion” continue to fall on deaf ears over in woke Whitehall. New emails passed to Guido show the DWP’s “National Race Network” recently held an open invite lecture on “White Awareness” by Professor Robert Beckford, with another 90-minute lesson on “Building Black Better” from Lord Dr. Michael Hastings scheduled in the diary for 15th February. All during the working day, obviously.
Beckford – who delivered the important lessons on “White Awareness” at the end of November – has previously charged West Midlands Police £1500 for a similar lecture on “white identity”, and voiced his support for the removal of statues from major places of worship across the UK last year. Admittedly none of this tops the DWP’s previously advertised event of a staff Q&A with a witch…
While all this vital work is going on, Guido can’t help noticing DWP have made a serious error: the email chain also shows the National Race Network are preparing a “BAME into Leadership Spring conference”, despite the racial disparities commission advising the government to scrap the “BAME” label last year because it had become “unhelpful and redundant”. Another victim of cancel culture…
The list of absurd things happening behind the scenes in woke Whitehall is getting increasingly long, from refusals to speed up returning to working from the office to pushing the BLM agenda. The Department for Work and Pensions, however, is taking the biscuit. Guido has discovered that the department is shortly to host a “Lunch with a witch with Q&A”. You read that correctly…
Does the department know Halloween was ten days ago?
The event, taking place during working hours a week on Thursday, will be open to all DWP and Civil Service colleagues. Any colleagues who have ever wanted to ask questions of a witch are encouraged to attend…
Any loons who can’t attend the 18th – do not fret. Two days prior, next Tuesday, the department is hosting a “Bitesize session to being a pagan“ – perfect timing ahead of Christmas. Guido can’t for the life of him spot any events scheduled about getting on with the job they’re paid to do…
UPDATE: Unfortunately the witch Q&A has now been cancelled.
Labour whips may want to advise their lazy MPs to personalise their copy and paste attack lines in future…
The Department for Work and Pensions has given a clearer signal than anyone that Boris’s Government is abandoning the nanny state prudishness of Theresa May’s… by encouraging Universal Credit claimants to enter the burgeoning British stripping scene.
In a post on the department’s website, the DWP suggested ‘Dances in adult entertainment establishments’ as the kind of work UC claimants could look for, and ‘Striptease Artist’ as a phrase those looking for work could use to search online. The post also suggested ‘bingo attendant’ three times, suggesting the author had balls on the brain…
The author of the post was clearly an expert in stripping, offering such knowledge of the profession as it “not needing formal academic entry requirements” because “training is received typically on-the-job”. Guido’s intrigued by the employee’s implication that you can take academic qualifications in stripping….
UPDATE: Labour’s former Women & Equalities shadow frontbencher Sarah Champion responded to this story “I cannot believe our Government now advocate for sexual exploitation”. To which Amber Rudd, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Minister for Women and Equalities replied “I had this advert removed as soon as I was made aware of it. It should never have been listed and I’m looking into why it was. Claimants should never be pointed towards those jobs.”
