Truss would change ‘woke’ Civil Service culture that ‘strays into antisemitism’

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  1. Is everything not far-right anti-Semitic now?

    The world is totally upside-down.

    All the data shows anti-Semitism is more prevalent on the right and leads to more dangerous actions on the right.

  2. In a desperate bid to become PM she’s securing her loss in the next general election.

    Labour will have so much ammo thanks to Boris and this leadership contest.

  3. Yet another example of her pea-brain and her party having absolutely no fucking idea what being woke even means.

    “Oh using this buzzword gets cheers from our voters, let’s use it as much as we can!”

    Next we’ll be hearing people are rapists because they’re woke.

  4. Sure what’s woke about the civil service.

    Personal data blind recruitment up to the interviews – totally woke and not just hey maybe let’s try and make sure we’re only caring about capability.

    Non harassment and anti workplace bullying policies – Almost like if you want to keep people especially when for many of the specialist areas the civil service requires and underpays you need it to not be an utter shitfest. Course this is still dependant on HR and the SCS levels caring to implement.

    Advising the government hey maybe dont try making us do something illegal – much woke and not trying to protect the country and public money.

    Various staff networks such as, Faith networks; LGBTQ+ networks; disability networks; Carer networks – Probabaly the “wokest”thing until you realise it’s all about just letting people connect with others in somewhat similar situations or communities and you know make a reasonable place to work for people.

    What else oh you mean implementing the legislation passed by the government around making online documents accessible for those with various disabilities. Oh no so woke ensuring that services and information can be used by as many people as possible

    Also how are you going to do anything while also cutting the civil service by 20%.

    This is just taking the American talking point and importing it here. Again. Tory voters real question why do you want to slurp and lick on American far right sticks

  5. How can it be woke AND anti-semitic? I’m beginning to think Liz Truss isn’t the mastermind we’ve all credited her with being …

  6. I think we’re already seeing the messaging of the next Tory election campaign.

    “Forget the shit economy, “woke” 5th columnists and the “deep state” are trying to destroy the union, steal away your Brexit and turn your kids gay.”

    Labour needs to be ready for this. Because unfortunately it’s a platform that could win.

  7. If the word “woke” has any meaning at all, I’m pretty sure that you can’t be both woke and antisemitic.

    You also can’t be woke and also racist, homophobic, transphobic and Islamophobic. Maybe Truss should have a think about rooting those ideas out as well, since they seem to be so prevalent among her supporters and backers…

  8. The Tories care more about attacking “woke” and trans people than trying to solve the problems they’re apart of. Energy bills set to hit £5000 pa and the Tories are like “WE MUST STOP WOKE FROM EXISTING” “REMOVE ALL TRANS PEOPLE FROM SPORT” completely ignoring and deflecting the actual issues.

  9. She was speaking at a synagogue in Manchester.

    If Jewish people do not start countering these accusations and use of anti-Semitism by right wing politicians then it will do them no favours in the long term.

  10. The Permanent Secretary here at Defra had parents who survived the Holocaust. This is extremely dangerous territory she’s entering into.

  11. >A Truss campaign source claimed that Labour has been a “talking shop for
    antisemitism and Anti-Zionism” under the leadership of Sir Keir
    Starmer,

    Who’d have thought that they wouldn’t stop spouting this shite even after the “anti-semites” are thrown out the party?

    Surely nobody could’ve seen this coming.

  12. The antisemitism card seems to be in fashion apparently, as it’s also being used a lot by the gvt in France everytime the left starts making noise.

  13. Let’s not forget. Normal people aren’t her target audience in all this. She’s just parroting the shite that will get her elected as tory party leader.

    She’s a vacuous idiot who will be yet another catastrophe for the country.

  14. Let’s be totally honest with ourselves, this is the logical end point of the manufactured controversy of “Labour anti-Semitism”.

    We’ve have 7 years of increasingly vacuous claims of anti-Semitism with nearly zero push back against within mainstream sources. So it should be no surprise that any bad faith actor knows they can make an accusation against just about anyone and get away with it.

    Edit: Since I know there’s going to be people pissed at me for saying this, I’ll leave some data on the matter:

    Stephen Law
    [My intro to the Battle of Ideas debate on ‘Antisemitism Today’](https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2019/02/my-intro-to-battle-of-ideas-debate-on.html)

    [Do you agree with Jeremy Corbyn’s suspension from the Labour Party?](https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2020/10/do-you-agree-with-jeremy-corbyns.html)

    Plus this article from *The Spectator* of all things
    [Is Jeremy Corbyn really anti-Semitic?](https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-jeremy-corbyn-really-anti-semitic-)

    “The fact of the matter is that Corbyn has an impressive record of supporting Jewish communal initiatives. For instance he was recently supportive of Jewish efforts to facilitate the speedy issue of death certificates by the north London coroner. In 2015 he took part in a ceremony in his Islington constituency to commemorate the founding of the North London Synagogue. In 2010 he put his name to an Early Day Motion (tabled by Diane Abbott) calling on the UK government to facilitate the settlement of Yemeni Jews in Britain. Indeed I could fill this entire article with a list of philo-Semitic EDMs that Corbyn has signed since he was first elected as Labour MP for Islington North in 1983.”

  15. The stark reality is that it’s the Civil Servants who for 10 years have propped up her incapacity to perform any Ministerial duties with spoon fed briefing, speeches, media, comms, clearing up her mess I. Defra, HMT, MOJ, FCDO… the list is long, the detail such that it’s beyond miraculous she’s on the brink of becoming PM. She once brought her daughter into work and in a meeting she said “mummy, are these all the little people who work for you?” . When the officials aren’t there and it’s party politics, you get pork markets, you get this sort of thing. She’s an absolute liability…

  16. And here I was concerned about energy prices and the housing crisis, when the real issue was woke civil servants.

  17. Now we see how the Tories use antisemitism as a tool, can those sheep who believed Corbyn was antisemitic please wake the fuck up

  18. I am literally a Jewish CS, not once have I felt any form of Anti-Semetic environment around me at work. She needs to shut the actual fuck up and stop using us as a fucking shield to defend her awful behaviour and crap policies.

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