Reform-led Durham County Council scraps diversity training
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c07drre9112o
Posted by SevenNites
Reform-led Durham County Council scraps diversity training
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c07drre9112o
Posted by SevenNites
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Durham council probably going to find out why that training existed in the not too distant future. It’s nothing to do with being “woke”, it’s so you have a legal defence when something goes wrong and you’re sued for breaching the equality act.
That’s the bar. “No requirement in law.” Reform believe that they shouldn’t ever need to do anything they’re not legally compelled too. Fuck just being a decent person or trying to grow, improve or build.
And they have the nerve to break out the old “actually you’re racist for saying I’m racist” bullshit.
Anyone falling for these charlatans deserves everything they’ll bring.
Anyone who has ever had to do one of these training sessions knows what a waste of time and money they are. Good decision!
Maybe this is good, maybe bad. I’ve had training that’s taught me how not to break the law. I had some LGBT training which taught me how to exploit the pink pound.
And then there was training where I was berated for an afternoon and condemned because I couldn’t mention five black inventors. (The example the facilitator gave was how double ply toilet paper, the telephone and supersoakers were all black inventions, and the people who invented them should be as well known as Bill Gates or Steve Jobs… Umm… Okay? I guess? How does that help me with filling in the 27b/6 form or keeping things under budget?)
Good, i hope every other council follows suit, diversity training is a waste of bloody tax payers money, how many millions have been wasted on this.
BE NICE TO PEOPLE, DONT BE AN ARSEHOLE – that’s the only training you need.
I mean fine, a lot of it is common sense but they aren’t going to tell us this probably ~30 mins online session is going to be replaced with lots of extra work now from them now is it. It is like a council being run by edgy children, it is basic shit just get it done as part of basic onboarding.
All I can think of is the “racist episode” of Father Ted, and the old lady with shopping bags shaking uncontrollably and shouting “Good for you!”
“I didn’t get to be the man I am today by learning.” – Robbie Rodiss …- probably.
Glad to see my council tackling the important issues with the council and county, and all other issues facing the council and the county have been fixed.
Amazing work.
Still waiting for all my roads to be pot hole free, and my council tax to reduce as promised.
I principle I believe there is a better balance between forcing people onto these courses and between scrapping them all together but what reform cannot claim is that they have saved any meaningful amount by doing this. This is pure culture war nonsense which will provide very little material benefit to their constituents.
I can hear a lot of staff breathing a sigh of relief from a great distance.
Had to suffer being spoken to like a kinder-garden child as a member of staff at Uni. Even worse was the online tickbox test at the end so you could proudly print your certificate and pin it on the wall behind your desk. God help us. Nobody needs this crap to learn how not to be a twat to other people.
Did everyone in the comments complaining about it speak up during or did you sit there like a good dog and nod along?
When the left says “diversity,” they really mean fewer white people.
Yawn. Are Durham council going to apply tariffs to goods bought outside the council zone next? Come on Nigel be original