No Army for White Men: Britain’s Self-Inflicted Recruiting Crisis
By Harrison Pitt, European Conservative.
In Britain, the obsessive drive to boost ‘diversity’ across all sectors of society has no shortage of casualties to its name. One of them is merit: talent being both rare and useful, it should be sought wherever it can be found. To make an a priori fetish of women and ethnic minorities will inevitably interfere with what should be a scrupulously evidence-based, talent-seeking process. The most recent casualty, however, is nothing less than Britain’s power to maintain itself in existence as a country.
This power has been pitifully weakened. What is more, it did not have to happen. The British army, tasked with the small matter of defending the realm, has shrunk by 40% since 2010. We now boast a mere 70,000 enlisted soldiers. There is even talk of conscription in the event of war.
While it might be excessive to ascribe this failure to diversity alone, our political class, especially the lamentable Conservative Party, must take a monumental portion of the blame. Far from merely allowing the rot to infect the military’s upper echelons, successive Tory governments have actively commanded our armed forces to adopt the tripartite motto of race communists the world over: diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
It is more than just a platitude. Over the last decade, it has become a deliberate policy with very real consequences for those of us who love Britain as our only conceivable homeland. The politicians who rave most about ‘diversity’—which is to say more or less all of them, from London Mayor Sadiq Khan to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak—show no interest at all in boosting the number of white Brits on the Tower Hamlets council or diversifying rap music to get more pasty lads from Northumbria involved.
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