The Ministry of Defence is now advertising for a “Senior Policy Adviser” on “Climate Change and Environment.” To join the swelling ranks of the existing Climate Change team…
At the same time as the Ministry is cancelling plans to fund military equipment and considering cutting training for the Army, it’s found £43,080 per year (more than their “Nuclear Threat Reduction Manager” is paid) along with a £12,480 annual contribution to the Civil Service’s gold-plated pension scheme to pay for someone to “lead on assurance activities and the review of the effectiveness of climate change policy across Defence.” In exchange for “providing coherence across Defence on environmental matters” the new adviser is offered “flexible working options” and “a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity”…
In three and a half days the position has just passed 100 applicants – attracting significantly more interest than GB Energy’s founding recruitment round. The number of applicants to a Civil Service job is inversely proportional to the amount of work that’ll actually be done…
The Ministry of Defence is at it again. They’ve been hit by a wave of fresh claims of a “toxic” and “sexist” culture as figures seen by The Guardian show 99 allegations by civil servants of bullying and harassment are currently being investigated. Perhaps the Cabinet Office will be more reluctant to bring the pen-pushers into the office everyday in this department…
While just six accusations were made in 2021, numbers skyrocketed to eighty-three in 2023, and eleven made this January alone. Accusations include groping, harassment and verbal abuse, with one woman claiming a senior official told her “there were only two kinds of women in defence, the bitches, who were effective, and the mumsy ones, who were completely useless”. Ouch…
Grant Shapps has been playing the culture warrior today, vowing to end the “poisonous” woke culture that he claimed has crept into the military, launching a review of diversity rules in the armed forces. His rallying of the troops came after outrage over revelations that armed forces are looking overseas to attract ethnic minority talent combined with an open letter from senior military officials blasting the “intolerant ‘Diversity, Equality and Inclusivity’ ideology“. You might think leadership hopeful Shapps fought back to appease the Tory right, slamming the indoctrination of the “controversial leftist thinking”. Fighting the good fight…
Guido recalls a recent different battle cry, when Shapps’ tune was a little different. Speaking last month to The Telegraph, the Defence Secretary said he was very concerned about the military’s lack of diversity, saying they needed to attract more women for a more inclusive representation of society. He went on to say that more needed to be offered by the Government to make the army more diverse: “Something which [he’s] extremely passionate about is actually having a military which should represent our country as it is today.” Flexibility in pursuit of victory…
MoD’s payouts for bullying, harassment, and discrimination have doubled in the last four years. The department gave out fewer than five settlements in 2019-2020 and six in 2020-2021, though the figure doubled to 12 in 2022-23. Last month, 60 female MoD staff wrote a letter complaining of the “toxic sexist culture”…
The MoD’s harassment game is evidently getting costlier, as victims’ payouts surged by over 60% in the past four years. Taxpayers foot the bill for these compensations, with the average claim skyrocketing from £145,704 (2019-2020) to £235,564 (2022-23). Civil servants being forced to return to office 3 days-a-week might be more expensive than originally thought…
Sixty female civil servants have accused the Ministry of Defence of having a “toxic” sexist culture in a letter written to the department last month. Accusations include groping, harassment and verbal abuse, with one woman claiming a senior official told her “there were only two kinds of women in defence, the bitches, who were effective, and the mumsy ones, who were completely useless”. Harsh…
Another accusation includes senior male officials making excel spreadsheets that rated women based on their looks and what they’d be like in bed. So that’s what our pen pushers are doing, no wonder productivity is so low…
In the letter seen by the Guardian, the MoD is blasted for it’s toxic culture:
“Women’s day-to-day professional lives are made difficult thanks to behaviours that would be considered toxic and inappropriate in public life, but that are tolerated at the MoD. We are spoken over during meetings, we are subject to pejorative language, we receive unwanted attention and face sexual harassment, including intrusive staring, sexualised comments, running commentary about what we wear, how we look, and how we smell.”
The letter slammed the “male-dominated” department which apparently sees women “overlooked” for promotions. The department has the most male staff (59.49%) in the civil service. Female public servant might have a better time at Health and Social Care, where the majority are women. Maybe Glen won’t want them to return to the office 3 days-a-week anymore…
The Met has managed to draw enough of its firearms officers back into the fold after the 300-strong Kaba walkout over the weekend. The Home Office had asked the army to step in as a contingency…
The Met is now saying that “discussions have been taking place with those officers” over the weekend and London couterterrorism duties can be fulfilled by the Met’s own firearms officers. At ease…
Read the Met’s full statement below:
