The EDI Industry is Out of Control
In June of this year, more than two million people looked with bemusement at Kings College NHS’s announcement that it had installed a permanent display of the gender ideology flag on one of its buildings.
Bemusement for three reasons.
- Gender ideology is harmful pseudo-science – it posits that we all have an inner gender identity around which it is reasonable to align our bodies by hormonal and surgical interventions which are irreversible and cause life-long harm. How can an actual NHS Trust complacently endorse this?
- The NHS is cash-strapped – why is it spending money on promoting harmful ideology?
- Flags matter – we should want to take them seriously. There are regulations around their display on public buildings. Kings College NHS effectively flouts these regulations; it’s a painting of a flag but it loudly does what flags do: “this is what we stand for.”
So what internal process led to such a prominent and public commitment to pseudo-science from an NHS Trust? What conversations took place? What money was spent? Does anyone dare object?
I decided to find out using the FOI process.
Firstly, the painting of the flag cost a paltry sum in the scale of NHS spending. What is most depressing about this FOI response from Kings College NHS (apart from the lackadaisical not-doing-the-maths) is the EDI-speak:
Secondly, who was consulted? The answer is just the EDI team. In fact, if you think about it, why would you bother to consult people when their freedom of speech has already been stifled? Who wants to be accused of hate or phobia? Only one response is allowed anyway. But the NHS Trust was possibly a bit embarrassed about this obvious truth so it initially implied to me that there was wider consultation and enthusiasm. It firstly said this:
But when I consulted elected members of the Local Authority they responded with this:
Unfortunately the recent monstrosity at Bromley Hospital sat completely beyond Bromley Council’s remit to control or prevent (we were not party to it in any way) and the Planning process which is set on rigid guidelines as to what people can and cannot do, had no means of denying the NHS the ability to erect it either.
This from the Council’s Chief Planner:
Dear Leader,
I think the response from the Trust isn’t quite correct.
The display of a mural was not part of this application (murals can require advertisement consent and not planning permission if they are considered to constitute an advertisement) – the elevations showed rainbow colouring on the building but there was no application for advertisement consent for the mural and it was not considered in the grant of planning permission. I would not say that the Council had “granted planning approval” for this mural and if it did need consent (I should add that I am not convinced it does) it would require advertisement consent and not planning permission.
Even if an application for advertisement consent had been submitted for the mural, the content of an advertisement is not something that the Council can control.
I hope that this helps.
Regards
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Did the Kings College NHS EDI team actually ‘make something up’ in its first response? It must have known that no planning permission was needed. This is another problem with gender ideology – it corrodes basic standards in organisations. Once a set of lies has been allowed to flourish inside an organisation how do you maintain a wider commitment to truth and standards?
I went back to them as follows:
I asked for any email exchanges that related to the planning of the flag/mural discussed below. You have not responded with any. But at point 3 you say that: “The viewpoints of our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Trust Network representatives were taken and supported by our Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
1. Please can you provide me with the emails sent either to or from the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Trust Network representatives which discuss the potential display of this artwork showing the Intersex-Inclusive flag at Princess Royal University Hospital, as part of a new walk-bridge for patients and staff? If not emails, other documents discussing this proposal? There must be something?
And here below, finally, is the result. Here is how you get an NHS Trust to permanently display its commitment to pseudo-science. (Although, note that there were also “several unrecorded MS Teams meetings where the artwork and schemes were discussed, and approval was given”.)
That’s it. To get a large and permanent display of a commitment to pseudo-science from an NHS Trust requires two emails between “Gents”. Thanks, Mates.
How to solve?
There is no mechanism in place to shut the EDI juggernaut down. Indeed there is an entire architecture set up to keep it in place. Because if you complain or dissent you will be accused of transphobia and hate. There are badges, and pledges, and training sessions, and identity-group networks, and paid permanent EDI staff with nothing else to do and a strong incentive to keep it all in place, indeed ramp it up.
The LGBTQIA+ network? Kings College NHS now pays it (and other networks) £10k a year. For what?
There are five staff diversity networks which represent people with specific protected characteristics:
- Inter Faith & Belief Network (religion or belief)
- Women’s Network (sex)
- Race, Ethnicity and Cultural Heritage Network (race)
- LGBTQ+ Network (sexual orientation and gender reassignment)
- Disability Network (disability).
Each network is allocated a budget of £10,000 per year from the EDI budget and is available on the basis that the network’s annual objectives and activities are agreed by the Network Steering Group and approved by the EDI Delivery Group on behalf of the Trust’s Executive team.
EDI staff? Kings College NHS has a Director and two Heads to oversee seven other staff. Surely this costs at least about half a million pounds a year for their salaries, pensions and office space. Extrapolate that across the NHS.
EDI gobbles up taxpayers’ cash when our tax burden is at an all time high.
When we have recruitment crises across sectors, EDI hoovers up staff diverting them from alternative jobs that could actually improve lives. Worse – it has them not just digging holes and filling them up – that would be bad enough; but no, they do real damage.
EDI divides us, trampling on free speech and diversity of thought, openness and dialogue in the workplace.
Most pernicious of all, EDI promotes and endorses pseudo-science which causes serious medical harm to vulnerable people.
How do we shut down the EDI industry? What needs to be done?
Stop Press: An X user tweeted images of what can be found adorning the inside walls of the same hospital.
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Shut off the money. If you want to take power away from someone, you need to shut off the money.
The state has such enormous power because it siphons more than half the economic production of its people to itself. It then uses those funds to set up an unassailable bureaucratic dictatorship to govern the people.
We are basically the farm animals of a bureaucratic dictatorship.
These little progressive terrorists in the NHS have replicated the model. They’ve secured funding and then have created a little fiefdom inside the NHS from which they try to impose their toxic ideology on everyone else in the NHS
Cut off the money supply will certainly put an end to EDI but with corporations also pushing the EDI agenda the fake Conservative Government dare not risk the wrath of their corporate sponsors who openly promote the EDI agenda.
If you can convince yourself and most of the political class (certainly the mob in control just now) that biological sex can be changed, then the maths is no problem. In their accounts 2808 + 1400 equals whatever they say it did. Given public sector audits are so far in arrears, how would we know if this sort of accounting was endemic.
You mean this entire decision was made between “gents,” with no input from women or any other gender group? Surely there’s a case for a complaint under diversity and inclusion criteria here?
It’s probably a bunch of lesbians, ironically calling themselves “gents”. The blue-haired denim brigade.
If you look at the costings, they can’t add up. £2,808 plus £1,400 does not equal £3,208, they are £1,000 adrift of the actual £4,208 spent.
But of course it’s all hand-waving and faff, powered by unicorn farts.
These EDI have such piffling nothingburger jobs, that all they can do is dream up this nonsense.
Seriously, I can’t imagine what else an EDI role involves on a daily basis, apart from monitoring for wrongthink and becoming righteously indignant if pronouns are misused. Our taxes pay for this, the NHS is already a money-pit and now they’re just taking the p15s.
Any chance someone can design a….
”sick to the back teeth of this virtue signalling, clearly anti-heterosexual agenda….and instead concentrate on getting your waiting lists down, medically treating and making people better ..after all that is your only f**king job”…flag ??
Reading has had a pedestrian crossing painted in this way for some years (Friar Street/ Station Road corner). Since it came to be there, it has been repainted once because the original one had worn off over time and repainted for another time to transify it. This means thousands of pounds of taxpayer money put into creating and maintaing a pride symbol in a busy street. It’s really good to know that Reading borough council doesn’t have any more pressing concerns, especially when considering that council tax rose by about 1/3 in the last 10 years (this makes a 50% raise for me — from about £100/ month to about £150/month).
There’s one on a regular route I drive in London.
Highly legitimate question..
The pictures on the inside wall make it even clearer – much like a sister organisation the BBC, the NHS is now a political campaigning organisation masquerading as a health service.
‘It posits that we all have an inner gender identity around which it is reasonable to align our bodies by hormonal and surgical interventions.’
Yes, it posits a body/soul distinction at the same time as subscribing to the prevailing world-view that all reality boils down to atoms – there is no spirit, no soul, no God. Completely irrational.
It is not incidental that the Pride symbol is an obscene appropriation of the celestial sign given to all humanity that God would not again destroy the earth by water.
What is overlooked is the prophecy that he will burn the earth and its works with fire (from the Sun). A foretaste of that day of judgement is just days away. Emblazoning all national institutions with a symbol ‘celebating’ sexual perversion is just putting a target on our chest and saying, “Go on, hit me, if you exist.”
Hard to comprehend such an attack on Eros. This agenda, the effects of the death jab on fertility, toxins in food and the environment generally and the abrupt and ruthless emasculation of the culture. Not by accident I would suggest. And don’t be beguiled by their utilitarian argument that you have to cull most of the herd lest all of the herd perish. Such an argument is flawed on many levels. This is not why they are doing it. They sense that as numbers grow their relative power is diminished. They have had the same pre-occupation for at least 2500 years. And this impulse is in overdrive given the consolidaton and centralisation of power that has occurred in recent years. It is important to understand this and not to misjudge the enemy.
Why did you foster this wthin your own culture? I know it wasn’t the intention but you allowed it in by a thousand capitulations. As if you could take the piss forever and get away with it. It was never like that. I remember when I was a student there was nothing in the culture beyond taking the piss and this is indeed perhaps the finest achievement of English culture but it can’t last forever. I love it I could take the piss forever but you have to be realistic.
There has to be an element of graciousness and humility in how you look at things now. There is no other way. I don’t say this as a prescription just an understnading of where we are. The good news is that it is all already there in the English language and if any country on earth has the ability to fight this force it is ours and largely because of the genius of our language.
Ministers will say that the Andrew Lansley reforms meant that they cannot direct the NHS management, who operate at arm’s length. Here’s an idea: reform again. He who pays, Government and Taxpayer, have such an easy way to enforce reform. Not a penny more until every EDI functionary is made redundant and EDI as an operation is closed down completely. General HR managers have responsibility under the discrimination laws and with up to 50% of staff in some grades already diverse they shouldn’t spend much time on it.
Shocking and not a surprise. The Pru is my local hospital and I can walk there. One of the family needed to see someone after a referral from 911 and went to the Pru and waited 9 hours to see a doctors a couple of Saturdays ago. Not an empty seat in the place and the reason given for the wait was lack of funds to pay for a prescribing GP.
https://youtu.be/h82D5ZvcALM?si=-NA0zhof88g61JYo
The NHS staff are clearly the sickest patients they have.
Just sent them my own, requesting formal scientific proof that gender exists separate to biological sex, hence is not an individual fantasy.
We shall see…
They’ve probably modelled it on a computer somewhere (aka: written on the back of a fag packet)
I too have a long-running enquiry with an NHS Trust regarding various campaigns including the “Call Me…” initiative; rainbow lanyards for staff and their annual EDI audit which I participated in earlier this year, part funded by NHS England. Happy to share my experiences with anybody interested…