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https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/02/20/the-diversity-industry-is-bad-for-your-health/

First up was news, reported in The Times last week, that the NHS is still actively recruiting ‘equality and diversity staff’. What’s more, these woke hires are in line to be paid double the salary of junior doctors. NHS England is currently looking to fill an EDI secondment position for south-west England. With a salary of £122,000 pro rata per year, I’m guessing this opportunity will not remain unfilled for long. Elsewhere, a London trust is advertising a head of EDI position with a £91,300 salary. With junior doctors earning between £36,600 and £70,400 and consultants being paid between £105,500 to £139,900 per year, why bother attending medical school?

Unsurprisingly, the NHS Confederation, which represents managers across the health service, is keen to contextualise these costs. ‘Current estimates put NHS annual spending on dedicated EDI roles in the range of £40million’, a defensive webpage claims. ‘This accounts for less than 0.03 per cent of the NHS’s annual resource budget for 2023-2024.’ In other words, when your annual budget is more than the entire GDP of many countries, £40million on EDI officers is just loose change. But patients who have suffered the indignity of being treated in a hospital corridor, or have spent days failing to secure an appointment with a doctor, may be forgiven for thinking that £40million could be better spent on medical staff.

The harm caused to patients by the NHS’s diversity obsession is not just in wasted money. When clinicians attend lengthy EDI training sessions, time that could be spent in hospital is instead spent watching PowerPoint presentations. The Times highlights an 18-hour long NHS leadership academy course, which takes place over six weeks and helps senior managers ‘lead with inclusion and allyship’ by reflecting on their privilege, and studying ‘the history of British slavery and colonialism’. Elsewhere, staff can engage with a 49-slide ‘microaggressions toolkit’, a 24-slide toolkit on how to be ‘an ally’ or spend up to 60 hours taking a course on ‘inclusive workplaces’. Next time you can’t get to see a doctor, rest assured she is probably busy learning that slavery was bad and that calling people ‘ladies and gentlemen’ is evil.

https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/john-swinney-wont-anything-ensure-34709539

John Swinney failed to say what he would do to ensure that public bodies have single sex facilities, despite it being against the law not to provide these for staff. The issue of single sex changing rooms has come to the public attention thanks to the ongoing employment tribunal between Sandie Peggie and NHS Fife.

The nurse is suing the health board over harassment after it allowed a trans doctor, Beth Upton, to use the female changing facilities despite being a biological male. The pair had a confrontation which led to Ms Peggie being suspended from work amid allegations she "misgendered" her colleague.

@KeepTakingTheSoma It shows you what they think of us.

@KeepTakingTheSoma @Funsizescot1975 I was never keen on the reels, too many people and too close up and too inclined to get violent! I liked the Schottische.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/hag-mocked-in-labour-whatsapp-group-claims-minister-swore-at-her-in-doorstep-row/ar-AA1zmnpt?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=3703e38fc9fd4255a8145e89b4a104d9&ei=10

A grandmother who claims she was referred to as a “hag” by Andrew Gwynne said the former minister swore at her during a doorstep row.

Elaine Cole, 75, alleged on Tuesday that she was at the centre of an argument on the campaign trail described by Mr Gwynne in a leaked WhatsApp chat. Mr Gwynne was sacked as a health minister and suspended as a Labour MP earlier this month over sexist and racist comments in the group chat.

In an exchange, first revealed by The Telegraph last week, Mr Gwynne told Labour colleagues he was “never allowed to canvas” a road in Greater Manchester again.

Writing in the Trigger Me Timbers group chat, he said: “It’s where I lost my s--- in the street with some Duki hag.”

“Duki” is a reference to Dukinfield, a town in the borough of Tameside located in one of Mr Gwynne’s neighbouring constituencies. David Sedgwick, a councillor on Southport council, replied: “Tbf [To be fair] there is nothing more satisfying than losing your rag with the electorate every now and again.”

Mr Gwynne added: “She made Claire cry, and she said the street was a s---hole, so I told her she f------ well lives there!”

Mr Sedgwick replied: “These people are so stupid they don’t realise they’re part of the problem!” In response, Mr Gwynne typed: “Her house was one of the s---tiest in the street.”

Speaking to Manchester Evening News, Ms Cole claimed Mr Gwynne swore at her by sticking his fingers up as he walked up the street.

She said: “He could have had a nice conversation with me if he hadn’t said: ‘Don’t listen to her, she’s a liar.’

“I shot down that path… I’m in my 70s. Even my son, who’s 56, daren’t call me a liar. I said: ‘Who do you think you’re calling a liar?’”

“He said: ‘It’s here.’ I said: ‘You shouldn’t have that... What are you doing with a clipboard with my name and address on saying who I vote for? That vote should be secret.’

“Then he started giving me a load of abuse... He was effing and jeffing at me as he walked up the street. He was putting fingers up at me and I just said: ‘Swivel on it.’”

She said that despite wanting to report the incident to Labour at the time, she did not know how to raise it with the party. Ms Cole said she now supports Reform UK.

In the same group chat, Mr Gwynne also joked about killing a fellow MP with a pickaxe and suggested a prominent member of the community should be bullied.

Further comments included a mocking response to a constituent who emailed him about bin collections that read: “Dear resident, f--- your bins. I’m re-elected and without your vote. Screw you. PS: Hopefully you’ll have croaked it by the all-outs [local elections].”

After his sacking on Feb 7, Mr Gwynne said in a statement: “I deeply regret my badly misjudged comments and apologise for any offence I’ve caused.”

He said he had served Labour all his life and that it was a “huge honour” to be appointed as a minister by Sir Keir Starmer.

Mr Gwynne went on to say he could “entirely understand” the decision to suspend him and hold an investigation.

Oliver Ryan, the MP for Burnley, was also a member of the Trigger Me Timbers group chat and was suspended days after Mr Gwynne’s sacking.

@Funsizescot1975

Well, did you take part, and kick your boots over the lampposts?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c9vmw79mgyko

https://www.instagram.com/p/DGQfGsbMhDY/

@KeepTakingTheSoma @RadicalCartoons I hate the anti mother "feminism", feminism my arse. See also the classism of what you mention there too. The snotty middle class wank thing while happily exploiting poorer women, see also surrogacy now.

@RadicalCartoons Doesn't help, but the narrative of you can have it all, including babies in your 40s and 50s horse piss that has been doing the rounds for years now doesn't help any either.

@KeepTakingTheSoma @Flick A great many of the new estates being built in central belt and etc areas are on flood plains, some also in Highland. There is also no proper or very little anyway housing association builds, just fly by night private wanks who are all crooked. "Affordable" homes my arse.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crlxrn8gwx1o

A hospital doctor, who was accused of sexual misconduct after talking to female patients in a "hypnotic way", has been ordered to face a second medical tribunal hearing.

Dr Neill Charles Garrard was accused by a woman in Southampton of "sexual chanting" and telling her "you will lust for me", while a woman in Lewisham said he made her undress unnecessarily and used a "weird... soothing voice".

In December, the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) found the allegations not proved.

However, a High Court judge has quashed the decision, saying the panel wrongly applied the law on the cross-admissibility of similar evidence from complainants.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2y3w0pzydo

A woman stabbed 24 times by her ex-partner while eight months pregnant says she is living in fear after learning he will be eligible for open prison years earlier than she expected.

In June 2016, Babur Raja was given an 18-year sentence for the attempted murder of Natalie Queiroz, having attacked her on a Sutton Coldfield street months before.

She has since tried to pick up the pieces of her life, drawing some comfort from his being behind bars.

But the government has confirmed to the BBC a rule change that means Raja's eligibility to serve the rest of his sentence in open prison kicks in this year, rather than 2029 as his victim once thought. And that, she says, "make me physically ill".

"The thought that somebody who [tried to] murder you and your child could be outside, even on day release, four years earlier than I was expecting - my fear of risk to me, to my child, to my other two children is now huge," the 49-year-old said.

@Flick They never learn, do they.

Can we get this pushed over the 10, please share with as many as poss x

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/705403

@KeepTakingTheSoma Ask for quite a few of us. Oh, I am so angry!

£50k per annum to advise on pronouns!

"Ms Bumba said her role was as a “support aid” to the NHS and dealt with issues such as “staff [who] are not sure what the correct pronouns for someone are.”"

"I’m still confused how a mid-20s woman with almost no experience got a job paying around £50K. Is it the magic of gender that gave her the experience? Is she someone’s child on the Board?"

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/17/nhs-fife-beth-upton-transgender-equalities-minister-advice/

NHS allowed transgender doctor to use female facilities on advice of equalities officer

Instead of talking to lawyers, managers consulted human rights lead who said Dr Beth Upton had a ‘right’ to access single-sex spaces

Esther Davidson, Ms Peggie’s line manager, testified that she had raised the issue on Ms Peggie’s behalf, but had been told by Ms Bumba that Dr Upton had a “right” to access female single-sex spaces as the doctor “identifies as a woman”. Ms Davidson then told Ms Peggie that nothing could be done to “exclude Beth from the changing room” and suggested the nurse use alternative facilities. Legal experts have said that Ms Bumba’s advice was incorrect, as NHS Fife had a legal obligation to provide single-sex spaces under the Workplace (Health, Safety, and Welfare) Regulations 1992. Deleted social media posts show that Ms Bumba was hired to the senior role after graduating in 2020 and then working for two years as a Covid contact tracer.

https://archive.ph/7zkf9

@TriptychTwinsRidesAgain @polarisera Stasi Nonce Party again, they put this into place.

https://x.com/lady8642/status/1891458137284038733

So this is David Miller, he's the Director of Workforce for NHS Fife. Responsible for all things HR. David used to work for the Scottish government 🤔 David struggles with the concept of women having safe spaces, David is obviously attending cult meetings. 🤦♀️

An SNP crony eh ?? I would never have guessed ?? 🙄