Yvette Cooper urged to end ‘racist’ block on white police recruits

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1. How to Lose Friends & Alienate your citizens… it’s not just the Police that* do this btw.

2. The UK really needs a bill/charter of rights in their constitution.

3. I’ll never understand why people expect establishment parties to do something about this, as if its not something they have always had full control over, and agree with.

   You whine and moan about how things need to change, but in the end want the establishment to turn around, abandon their beliefs that they have made plain as day over the last 30 years, and change the country’s direction for nice, establishment reasons, never supporting parties who actually will do something about it.

   The country didn’t end up in this mess by accident, it is what Labour and the Conservatives have pushed for, it is what they believe in, and they will never, ever change. If you want the country to change, if you want things like discriminatory hiring to stop, you have to support parties who will stop it.

4. Time and time again equal outcome does not work if you block a group of people based on ethnicity.

5. It’s not racist because white recruits aren’t banned It’s a case of when they have 2 equally qualified and capable candidates one white one not white the not white one will be hired

6. I thought there was a recruitment crisis in the police?

7. “Yvette Cooper urged to end thing that isn’t happening”

   Telegraph reporting is pathetic and agenda driven as usual. Even the article doesn’t say there’s a block on the recruitment of anyone. This is just a drive to encourage more *applications* from under represented groups and make sure they’re considered fairly.

   The entire point of recruitment practices like this (which are common and have been around for years) is to make sure candidates are discovered and hired purely on merit, and not overlooked or excluded because of their race or other irrelevant factors. Naturally Reform hate that idea.

   Given that “DEI” is a wholly American term and has never been used here, every time it’s quoted in stories like this is a reminder that this whole thing is just imported, manufactured outrage from the US.

8. Remember everyone, these ridiculous discriminatory and racist policies are from a small vocal minority on the far left.

   The vast majority of people disagree with them and equally think they are just plain idiotic.

   In the 2021 census 81% of people identified as being in a “white” race group.

   I’m sick and tired of hearing how damaging the far right are when the far left are imposing just as damaging ideologies on society that are tearing our social fabric apart.

   Nobody fucking cares, employ the best people for the job and leave skin colour and sex out of it. There is absolutely nothing to stop a minority applying for a job anywhere in this country.

   We live in an overwhelmingly white country. Do you think people in Japan, China or any other predominantly non-white countries are doing this kind of bullshit? No. Because it’s just that, bullshit.

9. I think it’s probably better to have people from the communities you’re policing in, which is probably what this directive is about.

10. There is no block on white police recruits, is there?

    https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/west-yorkshire-police-denies-positive-discrimination-accusations/

    A force allowed ethnic minority candidates to apply earlier, but didn’t start interviews until later after all applications received.

    So whilst we could talk about the rights and wrongs of deliberately trying to encourage more applications from a particular ethnic group, “blocking white police recruits” didn’t happen.

11. Ban diversity, equality and inclusion wtaf?

12. “we have a police shortage in this country. We promise to put police officers back on the street!

    … Only police officers of the right race though, of course.”

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14. I know white people who have recently become police officers.

    I’d wager there is really very little picking of people based on whiteness alone and this is more likely a piece to rile people up.

15. Elevating any group is discrimination by any other name. All it does it create more divide amongst others who haven’t got the treatment.

    Why not just have completely blind applications where the applicant on paper is given a code and the name isn’t revealed until far later on down the process?

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