I HAVE been wondering if anything has ever cheered me more than hearing Nigel Farage make that announcement after his Reform UK Party took ten councils in last week’s astonishing elections.
He said: “And if you’re a DEI [diversity, equity, inclusion] officer, I suggest you look for another job.”
Nigel Farage announced he would sack DEI [diversity, equity, inclusion] officers after his Reform UK Party took ten councils in last week’s elections[/caption]
Yay, well said that man!
Has anything made me happier? The birth of my lovely children? Millwall hammering the Hammers 4-1 in 2004?
Nope, actually. Farage is the winner there, as he was last week.
He also said that none of Reform’s councillors would undergo either DEI or climate change educational programmes.
Good. All you need for the latter is a quick question: “Are you aware that it is quite warm?” Answer: “Yeah, it’s quite warm.”
We’ll see how Reform gets on sacking all those superfluous cretins in cushy DEI roles. It is estimated that there are 10,000 of these parasites paid for by the taxpayer or the ratepayer, costing £557million per year.
Get rid of the lot. All of them. And once Reform has purged them from the county halls, get shot of them from the NHS and the police and the civil service.
It won’t only save us loads of wonga, it’ll also make the employees happier.
DEI is corrosive and unnecessary. May it rot and become a sorry footnote in history, a reminder of those days when we had lost our marbles.
But once the Reformers have done that — as well as banning that hideous rainbow flag from town halls — there’s an awful lot more waste that needs cutting from our local councils. Too many people on vastly inflated salaries. Too often working from home.
But the real test will come when Reform tries to tackle the vast bulk of local council expenditure.
I wonder if they will have the stomach and the resolve to do so?
It should worry us far more than it does. A huge amount of council expenditure goes on adult social care.
And the cost of that rises every year. More and more people relying on the state or the local council to support them because they can’t support themselves.
Now, some, perhaps many, of those receiving adult social care from the council are entirely deserving of that help. But it also seems probable that a good many are not.
These are the same people who insist they can’t go to work because of some comparatively minor mental affliction, such as anxiety.
In the last financial year the nation’s spending on adult social care reached a staggering £32billion, a huge 12.8 per cent rise on the previous year.
That is simply not sustainable, no matter how many diversity officers you sack.
And it is one of our biggest problems as a nation. A country which does not want to work. Because it believes the state can somehow look after everybody, and pay their way.
If Reform can get to grips with this problem, it would be a real vote winner.
Because there is nothing that hard- working, poorly paid people hate more than seeing spongers living better lifestyles than them without lifting a finger to do any work.
Anyway, that’s for the future. For the moment let’s just thrill to the spectacle of all those diversity officers queuing at the Jobcentre.
“And what are your particular skills?”
“Oh, I am really good at telling white people they are privileged and racist and that a bloke in a dress with a large todger is actually a real lady.
“Any vacancies for that line of work?”
LABOUR A HOLE OF HATE
Labour’s youngest councillor Daisy Blakemore-Creedon, 19, has been forced to resign from the party[/caption]
LABOUR’S youngest councillor has been forced to resign from the party.
Daisy Blakemore-Creedon, 19, was elected to Peterborough council.
She’s been demanding CCTV in local taxis, to keep women safe.
But because many of the cabs are driven by Asian blokes, she’s been accused of being racist – by her own colleagues.
Daisy, whose mum is Jewish, claims she then received anti-Semitic remarks from a leading local Labour supporter.
You’ll read lots of stuff in the next few months about rogue Reform councillors, I’ll bet.
So it’s worth remembering that nobody beats the Labour Party for sheer, unbridled, Jew-hating nastiness.
IT’S getting a bit nastier over there in South Asia, isn’t it? India launching air strikes on Pakistan.
This was in retaliation for Pakistani terrorists murdering a bunch of Indian tourists. India knows the terrorists work very closely with the Pakistani state. Pakistan knows it too.
What it SHOULD do is fess up, apologise and pay reparations. But failing that, not inflame the crisis further by launching an attack on India.
TRICKY TRADES
CALLING all tradesmen! Plumbers, tilers, carpenters etc.
Is there this thing you do deliberately where you’re at a customer’s house and you know he has absolutely no clue what’s going on? Like taking the p*ss?
This sort of thing: “Oooh, can’t just do that, mate. Your vertical bladger has gone which has caused a schism with the horizontal conduit, so you need a new bladger – that’s £250 minimum – and a sealant for the conduit. Can’t do it now, but I’ll get back to you in six weeks.”
If it IS something you all get up to – and it seems to happen every time I call a tradesman – then rest assured that it is indeed very annoying.
BRAVO ZHAO . . . KIND OF
Young Zhao Xintong just won £500,000 for lifting the Snooker World Championship[/caption]
HUGE congratulations to young Zhao Xintong, who has just won £500,000 for lifting the Snooker World Championship.
Straight off down the bookies, I would bet.
Zhao has just come back to the game after being suspended for 20 months for his role in match-fixing.
So it was kind of a mixed pleasure to see him wrapped in the flag of his horrible, totalitarian country, China, at the Crucible. Didn’t leave a very nice taste in the mouth, though.
Zhao beat Welshman Mark Williams, who played as if he had an elephant squatting on his shoulders.
They say Zhao’s win will be brilliant for the game in China. Do we care?
A POSH chef has been spouting off in another newspaper about what foods are “acceptable” and what are not. She works for some toffs in a country house.
Among the supposedly unacceptable foods are root vegetables. Especially swede and turnip.
In other words, the food of the gods. And cheap, too. Have you tried rumbledethumps? North East dish.
Chop up an onion and fry it. Chop up some potatoes, a swede and a couple of turnips. Boil ’til soft. Mash them with butter, pepper and salt. Add the onions and some cheddar cheese.
Put into a baking dish with more cheddar on top. Bake for 45 minutes. Delicious.
Those toffs don’t know what they are missing.
A POPE DREAM
NO white smoke yet from The Vatican. I assume that’s because they are taking my application to be the next Pope very seriously indeed.
By this time next week I could be wafting the incense around and blessing famous people.
And having them kiss my ring. So to speak. Go on Trump, you orange lummox, kneel.
I’ve heard talk that they want a “continuity Pope”. Who will basically carry on the liberal stuff the last one foisted upon us.
That’s why I need the votes of all the cardinals who Pope Francis made angry.
Anyway, I’ll let you know what happens.
WITH THE BREAST OF INTENTIONS . . .
The authorities want people to stop rubbing the breasts of the Molly Malone statue in Dublin[/caption]
THEY are having trouble with a statue of Molly Malone in Dublin.
She’s the woman from the cockles and mussels song, by the way. She probably didn’t even exist.
Anyway, her breasts are shining like car headlights. This is because visitors think it brings good luck to rub them a bit. So they now glisten.
The authorities want people to stop. That’s in case they move on to rubbing real women’s breasts for good luck. Without being invited to do so.
Maybe they should raise the statue off the ground so nobody can get at her baps.
But then people will probably start trying to put their hands up her brass skirt . . .