Go Woke, hopefully go broke

We've said nice things about Screwfix of late ...

... what the hell has this NHS tiktok Chinese dancing got to do with tools?  How insensitive to those who lost family 2020 to 2022!

Right, well that's them off the list ... Toolshed for me now.

DEI Has The Charitable Sector In Its Sights Now...

Charities are hiring staff with “privilege rather than potential”, according to the author of a report highlighting the stark class divide in the sector. Working-class people are less likely to be hired by charities than by employers in the public and private sectors, said the EY Foundation, which supports young people from low-income backgrounds to progress in professional roles.

The fact that charity worker can now be considered a 'professional role' in the first place is a sign of how far the industry has fallen, but no-one seems to want to point this out.  

Working-class people also find it harder to climb the career ladder inside charitable organisations, with the report highlighting how charity chief executives are twice as likely as the wider population to have gone to private school, rising to three times as likely for the biggest charities.

Duncan Exley, the author of the report, said charities were missing out when teams hired within their own social circles and class bubbles, which the research showed tended to skew towards the most affluent third of people.

They've become something so far from their origins that we probably need a new term for them. 'Charity' conjures up an image of grey haired retireees baking cakes to raise money for a small local issue and that's so far from the truth of what the largest are like that they are now targets for the rapacious DEI movement. 

One issue identified was that most charities were not even tracking their own progress on how many working-class employees they had and which roles they held. Of the 100 charities studied in one piece of independent research that went into the report, only one reported on the social class of its staff members.

And as a result, they must now spend the money they receive in donations for their cause on the kind of insane overheads that have crippled all other industry. 

Exley, who is the author of The End of Aspiration? Social Mobility and Our Children’s Fading Prospects, said there were endless hurdles for working-class people in the sector. These include a lack of progression from volunteering to a salaried job, having nobody to advocate professionally for them, and a lack of access to London where most large charities are based. Furthermore, he said it was simply not widely known among working-class young people that it was possible to have a well-paid career in the charity sector.

There's a real problem. It shouldn't be.  

Due diligence

Our special unnamed one at N.O. points out:

Remember this guy? Peter Daszak. "Dr. Peter Daszak is President of EcoHealth Alliance, a US-based organization that conducts research and outreach programs on global health, conservation and international development.." <<< From his bio at EcoHealth

Here's a character reference. H/T L on gab.

https://www.newspapers.com/image/936079556/?clipping_id=146829438&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjkzNjA3OTU1NiwiaWF0IjoxNzE1MjM4OTM2LCJleHAiOjE3MTUzMjUzMzZ9.j6RXplThRb9No9WB-jMQkZIVaBaWKFMgLr_Q5PZp3NQ

Crims of one form or another.

JH: Ok, I went there and screenshot(ted) most of it:

Some more from earlier days from our special unnamed:

There’s plenty more. As the post title suggests, due diligence is the name of the game for our bona fides.  Why do people not apply due diligence? Here are some suggested reasons imho:

You’ve become lazy, expecting it to be handed to you on a platter, unquestioned.

You actually don’t know where to look, given that most search engines are now Woke … you might not even know how to ask the right questions.

You are a working person, not yet retired nor unemployed … there is genuinely not the time.

You’re weary of the whole damned thing … dazed.

You decide which or all are you. I’d suggest that this militates against any real finding out. As for “fact-checkers” … the less said the better.

Due diligence, people … due diligence.

'No Risk To The Public' Who Aren't At A Bus Stop?

Joyce Bacon, 60, and Adele Boylin, 55, both mothers, were standing waiting to board the bus in Piccadilly Gardens when they were hit by a double decker Stagecoach being driven by 35-year-old Baruania Baros. Baros, a bus driver with four years experience with a clean driving licence, was helping a disabled passenger leave the bus when he accidentally pressed the accelerator instead of the brake pedal.

Baros, from Ashton-under-Lyne, pleaded guilty to two counts of causing death by careless driving, and was given a suspended prison sentence. The judge said his pregnant wife would be harmed if Baros was locked up and ruled that he did not pose a 'risk or danger' to the public.

We've been here before, so the leniency should probably be expected.

An expert found that Baros had left the bus in gear, rather than in neutral as it should have been. If it had been left in neutral, the accident would have been avoided, the court heard.

And yet despite clear evidence of incompetence, the (female!) judge has more sympathy for the perpetrator than the two victims.  

'This was a fatal mistake on your part,' Judge Suzanne Goddard KC told Baros, describing the incident as a 'tragic accident'.

I wonder why? Does she have a soft spot for public transport workers?  

The court heard that Baros and his family arrived in the UK as part of a refugee program, after spending time detained in a refugee camp in Tanzania.

Ah. Now I see. What are two dead Englishwomen set against your desire to stroke your progressive conscience, eh, Susie?  

Sentencing, Judge Goddard told Baros: 'In my judgement you do not present a risk or danger to the public. You have a good record, an absence of previous convictions and you have shown remorse. 'Here there is a realistic prospect of rehabilitation, strong personal mitigation, and immediate custody will result in significant harmful impact upon others.'

Have all our judiciary forgotten that prison is supposed to be a punishment as well?  

People are only as nice as the setting you find them in

The only reason I have the woke Quora delivered to the inbox is that they decided long ago I could not unsubscribe … then I stopped trying to, as the occasional item was interesting … such as this one, by one Robert Hill:

What tourist nationality do you dread seeing in your country the most (arrogant, rude, pretentious, stingy)?

I worked for a summer in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. I saw a lot of foreign tourists. The vast majority were delightful people who only had good things to say about our country, even the ones who were expecting to hate it. I thoroughly enjoyed myself and almost everyone I met.

Almost. The exceptions were China and Quebec, for totally different reasons.

Chinese tourists would arrive by the busload and swarm over our overpriced trinkets in the gift shop where I worked during the day. Most of them only had the most rudimentary English, if that, and they didn’t speak any of the half dozen or so languages I can speak well enough to negotiate a gift shop transaction. They also had a completely different concept of personal space and conversational distance so I often felt crowded.

I also worked at a bar in the evening. We almost never saw Chinese tourists come in for a drink so I can’t speak on their behavior while drunk. Since we weren’t a major party destination most of the customers would have a drink or two and leave. Sometimes the Europeans and Australians would have one too many and get a little annoying. But the only ones who consistently got on my nerves were the bloody Quebecois. I don’t know why, but they always thought it was fun when they got drunk to pretend they didn’t speak English. Then they’d call me or the other bar patrons rude names in Quebecois slang (which I understand quite well and pretended I didn’t). I tended to cut them off sooner than other customers for this very reason.

The only time I ever called the police after seeing a car drive off had Quebec plates, if that tells you anything. I’m shuddering just thinking about them.

So the worst a generation ago were sober Chinese and drunk French Canadians. I no longer live in a tourist area and I avoid them whenever possible, so I have no idea who’s worst now. I suspect that as the Chinese got more experience traveling they figured out how things work here and we’ve become better at catering to their customs and needs. Quebec has much less of a separatist movement now so maybe they’re not so ready to insult anglophones when drunk.

And all of this pales in comparison to our worst state. I won’t name it here but you can probably guess it already.

California? NYS? We’ll never know. It’s an interesting question and remember it said “tourist”, as in en masse tourists … busloads. Seems to me that it really depends on that word “tourists” and busloads, as in the Costa del Expat in Spain.

My reply to Robert Hill is that it all depends in which form you see them, it really does. Examples from my own past … let’s start with Finland, Helsinki, late evening, about to do that backpacker trick of overnight train to save on hotel or hostel costs. The Americans were loud, think I was with a Finn and I did go up to the Americans but they were in group mode, like football lads with us … though I know quite a few of these and they’re ok one on one or around a table in a bar.

The Finn said there were “two Australians over there”. They were quiet, you’d not have known. On the way back from the north of Finland by train, I was with an educated east coast American. Two Canadian girls went with me, from Madrid, to El Escorial … as quiet as mice. Swedish girls were everywhere, loud after a few drinks. I met a Spanish girl on a train to Italy … nice lass … lingua franca  for us had to be French. In an American small town, I met a southern Brit loudly complaining that their tour guide had not turned up. I was with a Glaswegian myself … why are Scots so violent in manner?

Answer is that they’re not … some are. South African whites on the whole are fairly brusque. I’ve never had issues with southern Brits, Brummies or Geordies. In Russia, most I knew were direct, yes, but friendly and supportive, they could party. At an Ashes match at Headingley, I wandered over to the Aussie yobs and they were obnoxious. In France, as one of a busload of Brits, the French could not abide us. I started talking to two Americans from Santa Monica (retired there) … we went down the street to a cafe and the French reaction was quite different indeed. With my Russian gal, in Cyprus, at the hotel, I started talking to some Russians, in Russian … they were obnoxious. Same with a few Bulgarians who were fine but my gal had warned me about them.

And so on. No need to draw conclusions about people … it really does depend on which form you meet them in I suppose.

I’m Sure Your Huge Salary Cushions The Blow…

Marcus Rashford has delivered a worrying message to fans on social media...

Oh, god, not another self-publicising 'poverty' campaign incoming?  

...revealing that he has endured 'months of abuse', with Man United supporters pinning some of the blame on YouTuber Mark Goldbridge.

Oh! And what's he guilty of? It seems the answer is 'noticing'. 

The 26-year-old forward has had a difficult season on the pitch, failing to match the achievements of his 30-goal haul during the 2022-23 campaign, scoring eight times so far across all competitions this season. Goldbridge runs a fan channel called The United Stand, which has 1.85million subscribers on YouTube. He has recently released several videos in which he criticises the England star, notably once referring to Rashford as 'about as useful as a wheelie bin with no wheels.'

Heh! Fair comment, you might think?  

In the early hours of Friday morning, Rashford responded to a post on X (formerly Twitter) that said the criticism he has received was unfair. The post read: 'The way Marcus Rashford is being treated is absolutely disgusting. It's cruel. It's abuse.' The United forward wrote back claiming that he was tired of the abuse he has received in recent months. 'I appreciate your support! It is abuse and has been for months. Enough is enough,' Rashford said.

Well, we have free speech in this country Marcus, so you'll just have to take it on the chin.   

Another user wrote on X: 'Anyone saying this is criticism is just lying to themselves, nothing to do with Marcus Rashford but brings him up anyway to pile the hate on.

'Mark Goldbridge is carrying out a well-thought-out hate campaign and he needs to be stopped.'

Oh, give me a break!  

Orthodox Easter

Just speaking to a Romanian ... it's in Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Russia of course, the Ukraine (not this year as Zelensky had the priests all arrested and the churches are being destroyed, the country being in the hands of satan of course. My friend Kassandra, in Athens, has been posting on the Greek festivities.

This was my tweet:

At the same time, London has fallen to the infidels, so:

Waitrose and diversity hires

Moosh is an Xer based in London and she's currently running:

You can see they set out their stall from the get-go with "high class grocers". Wiki has this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waitrose

Waitrose Limited, trading as Waitrose & Partners, is a brand of British supermarkets, founded in 1904 as Waite, Rose & Taylor, later shortened to Waitrose. 

It was acquired in 1937 by employee-owned retailer John Lewis Partnership, which still sells groceries under the brand. Its head offices are located in Bracknell, Berkshire.

As at April 2023, Waitrose & Partners has 329 shops across Great Britain and the Channel Islands, including 65 "little Waitrose" convenience shops. They also export products to 52 countries and have locations in the Middle East.

The chain has been described by The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian as having an "upmarket" reputation, although former managing director Mark Price suggested prices are competitive to Tesco, a mid-market chain. 

The company has a royal warrant to supply groceries, wine, and spirits to King Charles III.

This current issue we're contending with and which is splitting the west, as intended, even extended to Waitrose:

In February 2015, Waitrose Kitchen magazine included an advertising pamphlet, "Taste of Israel", submitted by the Israeli government, in which traditional Arabic foods were referred to as Israeli. The advert prompted a social media backlash against Waitrose.

This in itself brands Wikipedia as "anti-semitic" but I'll go no further down that rabbit hole. One intriguing thing to me is Ocado:

Ocado Group plc is a British business based in Hatfield, England, which licenses grocery technology. It also owns a 50% share in the UK grocery retail business Ocado.com (the other 50% is owned by UK retailer Marks & Spencer).

Perhaps the greatest blight on the chain was:

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/waitrose-going-woke-going-broke-under-dame-empty-shelves/

ON Friday June 9, I received an email from Waitrose telling me to ‘Get ready to celebrate Pride’.

Boasting about Waitrose’s woke credentials, it said: ‘It’s Pride month, and we’re looking forward to celebrating with family, friends and colleagues – and of course, delicious food and drink! At Waitrose and John Lewis, we’re committed to inclusion – and our LGBTQIA+ network, Pride in the Partnership, is always busy. So far this year, we’ve celebrated LGBTQIA+ History month in February and International Trans Day of Visibility in March with events and educational packs for Partners.’

And of course:

I went to a large Waitrose store on Monday and I can assure you that ‘the cause of the problem’ has not been fixed – more than half of the everyday items I wanted to buy were unavailable. The shelves were empty.

That brings us to John Lewis chairman Dame Sharon White, whom I have affectionately dubbed ‘Empty-Shelves’ White. According to Wikipedia, Dame Sharon has had a stellar career ... (etc. etc.)

The author continued:

Readers will have noticed that all Dame Sharon’s previous jobs were in public-sector organisations where you tend to be handed huge sums of taxpayers’ money for what many of us wouldn’t describe as ‘work’.

Diversity hire, yes.  "Dame" Sharon White:

The rest has been in the news in the not too distant past ... which leaves one last question I'd like answered ... just how much truth is there in the adage "go Woke, go broke"?

You Can Bet His Name Isn't Fred Smith...

And should we ever get to know it, no-one will be surprised, I'm sure. 

Managers at a hospital where police are investigating dozens of deaths promoted a consultant surgeon months after they allegedly assaulted junior doctors during surgery, the Guardian can reveal. Two female registrars at the University Hospitals Sussex NHS trust in Brighton sent written statements to the trust’s chief medical officer in March 2022 detailing how they were allegedly assaulted by the surgeon in separate incidents as they helped to operate on patients, leaked documents reveal.

The consultant surgeon was alleged to have slapped one of the registrars across her face with the back of a hand. The other registrar claimed she was slapped on the hand and had surgical instruments snatched from her by the same person.

Yes, Reader, in surgery, when they should really be concentrating on the task in hand. You'll say there can be no excuse for behaviour like that, but you'll be wrong!  

The trust said its investigation found the surgeon’s actions were inappropriate but did not constitute assault and were taken in the interest of patient safety. The surgeon apologised to the registrars.The investigation concluded that, in the first incident, the registrar’s visor was blocking the consultant’s field of vision during surgery, causing them to instinctively push the visor away.

By actually touching the offending item rather than asking 'Nurse, please move'? Aren't they supposed to not touch anyone but the patient to avoid cross-contamination?  

In the second incident, it concluded that an instrument was taken from the registrar’s hand during a procedure for patient safety purposes.

Sound like patient safety would be better assured by making sure this chap never entered the operating theatre.  

Biden to win?

William Briggs has a piece by some man who seemingly has picked every Presidential winner for donkey’s years … 

A historian who has correctly predicted every presidential election since 1984 has declared that ‘a lot would have to go wrong’ for Joe Biden to lose to Donald Trump – in November.

Allan Lichtman, a professor of history at American University in Washington, DC, devised a system, which he terms ’13 Keys’, and wrote a 1980s book explaining the idea.

He says the technique enables him ‘to predict the outcome of the popular vote solely on historical factors and not the use of candidate-preference polls, tactics or campaign events.’

Based on post-war history and in particular, the agendas at work right now, as well as fraud already got away with … so why not again … plus the changing demographics … plus no one antiWoke is translating it into street action but still “playing fair” or waiting for those guys over there to do their job and fix it for us …

… well I see a very real situation of Biden’s cadaver getting back, plus Khan, plus the Illumined Penny Mordor, plus Kate Forbes being shut out …

… and the only issue is exactly when do we take to the streets, the rule of law being on the side of the crims themselves.  No one at all is lifting a finger to stop it.