makes you wonder about the diversity hires if this is needed
This will end well.
Relaxed security checks always go well. Just ask the Met.
Maybe they should just accept that not all ethnic minorities want to fight for king and country, and stick to recruiting from groups that do. To be effective it helps to have people who genuinely want to be there, choosing people based on box ticking won’t end well.
Fucking terrible idea.
I’m pretty sure that one of the places you definitely don’t want to relax security checks is in the fucking forces.
Relaxing the security checks. What could possibly go wrong?
In fairness, getting shot at is probably one of the only times that minorities aren’t all that keen on diversity
It’s mad that this sort of thing even passes the first test of “say it out loud and hear if it is sensible”
Also I doubt how well it will work, more British Muslims joined ISIS than are members of the armed forces
“We’re either going to have lower our standards or…”
“Done. Do it.”
Every single service overseen by the government for the last 13 years.
Within a couple of years “Breaking News how could such a horrible event happen to us”
Dying for diversity.
Different ball game but didn’t we just have a spy found in the highest levels of intelligence because of lax security checks?
What could possibly go wrong.
This is bloody insanity!
We recruit about 300 Gurkhas a year. Treble that if needed. They won’t be a risk and will be far more valuable than a recruit who is in just to tick a diversity box.
Let’s be honest a more accurate headline would be “army relaxes criteria due to low recruitment rates thanks to crapita”
Nice, Ho-Chi Min and Lo-Hing Ho don’t work for the CCP they said so. Stick them on the Nuclear subs. They’ll make fine mechanics.
Ahmed’s family are from Iran and although he had a phase where he hung Black Flags with Arabic writing on them on his walls at home. It was just a phase. Give that man a rifle. He’s a good guy!
Ivan here has family in Russia and an engineering degree from Moscow. But there is no way he would ever divulge secrets. Give him the schematics to the carrier and the aircraft so he can study them. What’s the worst that could happen? Wait what? He’s white? Oh shit, Erm No we can’t have that! Oh but wait, He ticked LGBTQ on his application. Phew, He’ll make a great asset to the team.
Oh thats them taken care of. Now lets setup a crack team of SAS and SBS made entirely of woman and femboys who can barely carry their purses. Whats the worst that could happen?
But I thought diversity drives didn’t mean lowering requirements?
Right????
There’s something very British about the solution being “we’ll just have very low standards that will lead to inevitable problems, hence why the standards existed to begin with, because it’s easier than doing something properly”.
Ah yes, the relaxing security checks. There is no way that won’t go wrong. By the way, that russian sounding fella who is pro-putin and seems to be accessing sensitive info? He’s actually a good fella.
The army shouldn’t be relaxing security checks. The police did and now look at them.
But they won’t relax ACL requirements.
Fuck me right? Tore my ACL as a teenager, had it repaired. Now I’m ineligible.
When they bring in conscription, I’ll be feeling pretty smug.
Did they not see the utter shit show that the RAF went through? Do they think lack of diversity is the cause of their massive recruitment/retention issues? These kind of priorities are just fucked.
How about keeping security checks the same and not letting Crapita run recruitment. I waited 11 months for a medical and gave up when I was in decent nick. Now I’m a fully dad-bodded up and would be a terrible call up when they fail at conscription
I wonder how many people in this thread actually read the article. The “security check” being a 5 year waiting period.
“Teachers to lower math expectations to promote diversity!”
“Army to relax security checks to promote diversity!”
For fucks sake. If the world treats an entire population like they’re too dumb, or too criminal to keep up with society then maybe THATS the problem. Stop telling kids “you can’t make it because of the color of your skin”.
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makes you wonder about the diversity hires if this is needed
This will end well.
Relaxed security checks always go well. Just ask the Met.
Maybe they should just accept that not all ethnic minorities want to fight for king and country, and stick to recruiting from groups that do. To be effective it helps to have people who genuinely want to be there, choosing people based on box ticking won’t end well.
Fucking terrible idea.
I’m pretty sure that one of the places you definitely don’t want to relax security checks is in the fucking forces.
Relaxing the security checks. What could possibly go wrong?
In fairness, getting shot at is probably one of the only times that minorities aren’t all that keen on diversity
It’s mad that this sort of thing even passes the first test of “say it out loud and hear if it is sensible”
Also I doubt how well it will work, more British Muslims joined ISIS than are members of the armed forces
“We’re either going to have lower our standards or…”
“Done. Do it.”
Every single service overseen by the government for the last 13 years.
Within a couple of years “Breaking News how could such a horrible event happen to us”
Dying for diversity.
Different ball game but didn’t we just have a spy found in the highest levels of intelligence because of lax security checks?
What could possibly go wrong.
This is bloody insanity!
We recruit about 300 Gurkhas a year. Treble that if needed. They won’t be a risk and will be far more valuable than a recruit who is in just to tick a diversity box.
Let’s be honest a more accurate headline would be “army relaxes criteria due to low recruitment rates thanks to crapita”
Nice, Ho-Chi Min and Lo-Hing Ho don’t work for the CCP they said so. Stick them on the Nuclear subs. They’ll make fine mechanics.
Ahmed’s family are from Iran and although he had a phase where he hung Black Flags with Arabic writing on them on his walls at home. It was just a phase. Give that man a rifle. He’s a good guy!
Ivan here has family in Russia and an engineering degree from Moscow. But there is no way he would ever divulge secrets. Give him the schematics to the carrier and the aircraft so he can study them. What’s the worst that could happen? Wait what? He’s white? Oh shit, Erm No we can’t have that! Oh but wait, He ticked LGBTQ on his application. Phew, He’ll make a great asset to the team.
Oh thats them taken care of. Now lets setup a crack team of SAS and SBS made entirely of woman and femboys who can barely carry their purses. Whats the worst that could happen?
But I thought diversity drives didn’t mean lowering requirements?
Right????
There’s something very British about the solution being “we’ll just have very low standards that will lead to inevitable problems, hence why the standards existed to begin with, because it’s easier than doing something properly”.
Ah yes, the relaxing security checks. There is no way that won’t go wrong. By the way, that russian sounding fella who is pro-putin and seems to be accessing sensitive info? He’s actually a good fella.
The army shouldn’t be relaxing security checks. The police did and now look at them.
But they won’t relax ACL requirements.
Fuck me right? Tore my ACL as a teenager, had it repaired. Now I’m ineligible.
When they bring in conscription, I’ll be feeling pretty smug.
Did they not see the utter shit show that the RAF went through? Do they think lack of diversity is the cause of their massive recruitment/retention issues? These kind of priorities are just fucked.
How about keeping security checks the same and not letting Crapita run recruitment. I waited 11 months for a medical and gave up when I was in decent nick. Now I’m a fully dad-bodded up and would be a terrible call up when they fail at conscription
I wonder how many people in this thread actually read the article. The “security check” being a 5 year waiting period.
“Teachers to lower math expectations to promote diversity!”
“Army to relax security checks to promote diversity!”
For fucks sake. If the world treats an entire population like they’re too dumb, or too criminal to keep up with society then maybe THATS the problem. Stop telling kids “you can’t make it because of the color of your skin”.
Can’t think of the [kind of person](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-39709160) you may end up with if you [do that](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_escape_of_Daniel_Khalife)
God I wish they would just start hiring anyone at this point.
I’m in the forces and my job is currently less than 30% manned.. We’re absolutely hemmoraging people.