Labour Council Will Check Companies’ LGBT Credentials Before Hiring Them
Camden Council in London is insisting that companies in its supply chain show commitment to LGBTQ+ inclusion values, reflecting a broader trend in London for ‘inclusivity’. The Telegraph has the story.
Labour-run Camden Council… will use its “position of power” to insist that outside businesses demonstrate their commitment to approved values in order to be commissioned.
According to information from the local authority, it is aiming to “positively influence” through the policy. It states that “building our commitment to LGBTQ+ equality into our procurement processes” has been one of the ways in which it has sought to be more inclusive.
This is in order to “work with businesses whose values align with our own, and to use our position of power to positively influence”. …
But Howard Cox, a London Mayoral candidate for Reform U.K., said: “This ultra Left-wing council should be censured for their needless discriminatory behaviour against private businesses. …
“These businesses should be judged only on the quality of product, service and value for money they offer. Yet another clueless London Labour council that has lost sight of all common sense for a minority and very unpopular political ideals.”
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A better point against this is that this Labour-council is wasting taxpayer money by preferably funneling it into companies implementing Labour policies regardless of competitiveness of their offerings.
And that’s the complimentary description. A less friendly one is that they’re setting up procurement rules based on their own, subjective political judgements as cover for their corrupt machinations.
We’re literally being governed by lunatics.
And let’s drop the damn alphabet soup, -H futureproofs for all new future flavours of.mental illness.
Are there enough around for all the companies to meet the “standards”?
Pretty soon Alphabet people will get paid extra to attract them to companies needing to queerup.
Or straights will get bonuses for pretending…
Not new for anyone competing for government work, best avoided if at all possible as my grandfather (manager of a small pottery manufacturer in Stoke) advised some 50+ years ago. It was ever so.
Some years ago we were appointed consulting engineers on a project for London Lighthouse (opened by Chris Smith). They said they would prefer a gay engineer on the project, I said that I had been to Public School which was the best we could do.
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This is another example why government/council works cost so much.
As well as the costs of doing the reports it’s only the biggest companies that will have the time/resources to complete them.
There’s then no incentive to put a cheaper bid in as they know that no “local” firm will cone in and undercut so its always work for the same few large firms
This is another example why government/council works cost so much. I’m pretty certain that this is another example of rampant corruption¹ in the public sector and that’s not some kind of naturally existing condition. It only blooms in politically sympathetic environment. ¹ Public procurement is supposed to be based on an objective criterion, namely, the price. This implies that there’s little leeway for favoritism. Companies seeking to work for the state have to make competitive and credible (as determined by past performance) offers in order to get a job. Adding political criteria to this means who does or doesn’t get the job is ultimatively down to a judgement call from some politician. This makes it much easier to arrange cozy little quid-pro-quo deal, eg, company XY hires a gay buddy of some politician as equality champion or some other nominal-work nonsense job. XY is thus considered class A alphabet-soupy and awarded jobs by said politician it wouldn’t have gotten based on its offerings alone. In theory, this could be bleeding labour hearts seeking to make the world a better place by abuse of power (misappropriating taxpayer money to further the political goals of their own party). In practice, especially in… Read more »
I know we are very much against government interference but cases such as this warrant interference. The public do NOT expect local councils to try to ram politics into our everyday lives. Council tax is taken but the rightful expectation is that these monies are spent wisely and certainly not used to promote a political message.
Camden Council need a strong talking to and if that means charging some of them with malfeasance in public office it won’t be before time.
This case suggests that there has been WEF infiltration at a senior level because the EDI crap is straight out of Agenda 2030. Or some Labour idiots hoping for gold stars.
I respectfully disagree. The public need to take more responsibility, not government. The sooner we realise that what we need is tiny government, or no government, the better. We need to get back to small, self-governed, communities that are not dictated to from above. I know that’s pretty radical, but that’s what I’ve come to believe. If we expect government to help us when we want them to, we’ve also given them license to dictate to us when we don’t want them to. Like a relationship gone sour, we need these people out of our lives.
The best government is the one that governs the least . —–Yep TRUE. What I find as I speak to friends, family etc though is that they are mostly oblivious to what is going on regarding major issues like climate, covid, ESG, and the goals of the UN, WEF etc. If I say too much I will be classed as some kind of “conspiracy theorist”. Most are too busy with work and family life and think when they tune into their 6 o’clock News that they are listening to Investigative Journalists who have looked into issues on their behalf. ——Sadly this is NOT the case at all.
That’s a state nobody in England has been in since time immemorial. Tribal society prior to the Roman conquest may have worked in this way but probably mostly due to technical problems (ie, most of the land being covered by jungle). Said tribal society was roundly defeated by the Roman invaders. And it has been states ever since. In less remote parts of the world (for the standards of that day), history of states goes back a few more thousand years.
In an even more remote part of the world (northern America) a state hasn’t yet existed for 300 years and hence, the myth of the aboriginal, stateless society of settlements essentially being cut off from each other by jungle is still fresher. But even in the USA, this is long past, not about to return and this longed-for atavism is certainly no recipe for other parts of the world.
The US constitution “exists”. It is just that politicians manoeuvre around it. eg “The constitution says what the government cannot do to you, but it does not say what it CAN do on your behalf”.—– Obama.
I have just found this post by ‘Pretty Polly’ over at TCW. An interesting read. Coincidences, Coincidences >> Maastricht >> Lisbon >> CCA 2008 >> CCC >> Soros Jobs All Round! Bill Gates directed Britain’s covid response and Johnson and Hancock carried out Gates’ instructions to the letter. Gates and Soros frequently work together so there are some astonishing “coincidences” here. Mail to John Redwood’s Diary today.. How do you account for the protagonists behind the Maastricht Treaty and the Lisbon Treaty, John Major and David Miliband, both getting highly paid jobs closely connected to George Soros, Mr Redwood? How do you account for Tony Blair, David Miliband who arranged the Climate Change Act, and David Cameron all getting Soros jobs? How do you account for the first chairman of the Climate Change Committee, Lord Adair Turner, getting a Soros job, as chairman of Soros’ Institute for New Economic Thinking? How do you account for Steven Fries who is a “Research Fellow” of Soros’ Institute for New Economic Thinking ALSO being on the Climate Change Committee? Not forgetting Christopher Stark of course, the CEO of the Climate Change Committee, previously working for Soros’ friend Gordon Brown who signed off the… Read more »
Thought provoking post. ——Happy New Year. But that might not be possible with the parasites all over the western world in charge.
Well, what’s your conclusion from that?
Considering the name-dropping (Maastrict treaty, Lisbon treaty) an obvious one would be the architects of the Brexel are still very much in need of the EU as entity to blame for anything which really didn’t become what they had liked to sell to those who voted for their pet project.
“An entity to blame”———I can blame the EU for the invasion of Illegal Aliens which the Liberal Media like to call “migrants”. I can blame them for being a protection racket. I can blame them for being the instigator of the GREEN tyranny, and I voted accordingly. You are also entitled to vote for stuff.
I’m entitled to pay income tax. As far as I know, I have no voting rights whatsoever. I’m living in England but wasn’t born in a Commonwealth country, so, I have no voting rights there. And I’m not living in Germany and hence, don’t have any voting rights there, either, as per decree of the people who claim that right to vote for or against something is such a fundamental human right that it must – ideally – be awarded to all foreigners who have been living in Germany for at least six months (this particular proposal was shot down quickly among a public outcry, but that’s were the journey’s supposed to lead to insofar the people presently controlling the German government get what they want).
Their bosses can take Camden council to task over the waste of public money if they want to – by voting them out. If not, well: more money than sense.
If political/ social problems could be solved by otherwise apathic voters making a cross on a piece of paper about every half dozen years, we shouldn’t have had any for quite some time already.
Yep , but that is all we have.
The issue at hand is that this Labour council is usurping powers it’s not supposed to have, namely, political regulation of businesses beyond what the law of the land demands, by abusing its ability to control the budget of the council. The solution to that is not “Oh well, people can just vote them out in a couple of years!” because of all the damage they can illegitimately do in the meantime and because the ability of the people to vote them out exists solely because of them playing by the rules. When they’re getting away with smaller infractions, larger infractions will follow and ultimatively, the power to vote them out will cease exist in any meaningful away (assuming this hasn’t already happened long since, cf uniparty).
Another council wasting tax payers money
So by being ‘inclusive’ they exclude companies that may not share their ideology!
The only thing that should matter is getting best value for the residents and businesses in the area, not doing so strikes me as a dereliction of duty.
This policy will see costs to taxpayers only go one way. Up.
But as someone pointed out not so long ago “We are all socialists now”——ESG is all the rage. We will comply or we will be removed from polite society, and our Digital ID will prevent us from participating.