Senior civil servants’ bonuses are linked to promoting inclusivity
by Leo McKinstry, Daily Mail:
How the public sector pours hundreds of millions into the diversity money pit.
The woke revolution has become official policy in Whitehall. It is as though Sir Humphrey from Yes Minister has joined forces with the Socialist Workers Party to create a hybrid form of bureaucracy where radical ideology has been grafted on to the traditional box-ticking mindset of civil servants.
This weekend, it was revealed that senior mandarins are being encouraged in official documents to push a ‘diversity and inclusion’ agenda in order to qualify for bonuses.
‘Members of the senior civil service must demonstrate that they have made a significant corporate contribution’ beyond their core roles, insists the document in classic Whitehall-speak.
‘This includes work at the cross- government functional level, for example involving leadership of functional initiative on capability building or diversity or inclusion.’
In other words, Sir Humphreys are increasingly being judged on their willingness to promote social justice rather than the ability to do their job.
The development is yet more proof that public institutions have utterly surrendered to the fashionable, politically correct agenda.
The late Nigel Lawson, Margaret Thatcher’s finest Chancellor, once famously said the NHS was the closest thing the English have to religion. If that is true, then cultural diversity is the new creed of the public sector.
This is being imposed by a new priesthood, made up of a swelling class of taxpayer-funded officials.
A recent study by the think-tank Conservative Way Forward estimates that there at least 10,000 state employees whose work involves the promotion of equality, diversity and inclusion, with a total bill for the taxpayer of more than £557 million.
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