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An Army Veteran has called for the end of "DEI" in the defence industry after a damning sex dossier revealed women being told to "put up and shut up" in order to uphold gender targets.Speaking to GB News, Neil Pressley declared the report a "DEI disaster", and said the Army should be hiring the "right person for the right job".FULL STORY HERE.
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treated in the army surprise you
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Not in the slightest. It's been going on for years, but what is more surprising is the lack of response from the military
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Basically, the closed doors, the fact that the women have been actually left to..
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Well, pretty much like the grooming gangs now, they've been told to shut up and put up
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But in my day, it was... I didn't see it as much
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because women and men were separated. Right. You know, this report of a guy knocking on a woman's door for two hours
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that would have been stopped. I mean, to be quite honest, if men went into the women's blocks
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they'd be arrested. Really? You know, it's, you know, the fact that this country has become far too interested in DEI
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rather than looking at who's suitable to do the job, you know
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Well, that's the big question, isn't it? Because, of course, this report reveals some pretty awful behaviour
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which, of course, we would all condemn. But on the other hand, the idea that the report says
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the army is too male-coded, and that's the problem. But surely we want the army..
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If any particular organisation should be male-coded, it should be the army
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We want them to go and fight, we want them to go and sacrifice. We do. We want them to go and, you know, be brutal sometimes
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let's be honest. Well, the thing is that women have been a vital part of the military
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for a long, long time. Let's go back to Florence Nightingale and was it Mary Seabee
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Yeah. So, vitally important. But, again, armies aren't nice. Wars aren't nice
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You can't be a nice person. It's a rough, tough place. But, again, you still need a psychological profile
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because sexual harassment, sexual assaults are inexcusable. You're saying it's not just women that are at risk
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No, it's not just women at risk. I mean I worked for 12 and a half years within the veteran sector for a military charity now for veterans mental health And some of the stories that I hearing from male veterans female veterans they horrific you know
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And it's not just males attacking the women, it's females as well
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There are female grooming gangs within it, you know. And, again, this is where the DEI needs to stop
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And now what you're hearing now, was it much worse than when you were in the...
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Well, I didn't see it as much, whether I was blinded by it
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just focused on my career or whatever. But, you know, there were stories and I have seen some incidents
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but the people that were involved were severely reprimanded. Gone. Now, this report was written by Professor Anthony King
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He's an independent academic. And one of the things that he draws out is that so many of the soldiers
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of all ranks told him that they didn't know what the army was for
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and that part of the problem was a lack of morale, a lack of purpose, that there weren't any wars to fight
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They were really frustrated by having to help out in COVID, by distributing masks and things like that
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and they just lacked a sense of what are we here for. They were thinking that was actually contributing
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to this toxic culture, if you like. The biggest problem is the fact that they've stopped
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the changing, the training process. A lot of the military is actually used for humanitarian reasons
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You go into a disaster zone, you help support. And COVID was classed as a disaster zone
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so the military were needed there. I mean, I was quite surprised during COVID
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when I walked out into my balcony, I saw the military police patrolling the streets. I'm like, hang on, have we gone into a..
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Was it? Yeah. But they need to be taught again that we're not just there to fight wars, we're there to
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support humanitarian projects. You know in my day I mean again you had electricians plumbers builders mechanics everything within the units They stopped all that and started contracting them out So therefore people are left to wonder what they doing
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What about the idea as well of a target, 30%? Neither of them have I ever agreed with these retarded quotas
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No. Do you think it's not going to work? No, it's not. I mean, as I said, there's always been a role for women within the army
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and don't get me wrong, some of the women that I've met in the army
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put the fear of God in me, you know, but it's a matter of choosing the right person for the right job, you know
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Is this person capable of doing that? Are they psychologically able to withstand that
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Yeah. You know, because PTSD does attack and it can attack at any time
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whether you're in or out, you know. One of the other things that the report identified
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is that because there are so few, relatively women in the army, I think about 10% of the armed forces
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that some of the men felt that the women were being given unfair opportunities to represent the unit
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to take part in different activities because the commanding officers wanted a woman to take part
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And that was generating some resentment. Do you think that's fair? I mean, is this just another DEI disaster
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It is another DEI disaster, but at the end of the day, it's the right role for the right person
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You know, if that role is specifically for a woman, why is a man going to do it
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You know what I mean? If you need someone there that needs to soften the blow
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to be quite honest, most men in the army, you ain't going to soften the blow with their attitudes
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and their voices. But you've got a woman there to do it
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And I don't mean to sound misogynistic or anything, but it's a fact of life, you know
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You need people to be harsh. You need people to be softer and a little bit more empathetic
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Yeah. Yeah. Now, of course, what this really gets to the heart of
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is that there is a difference between men and women, that perhaps over the last 20, 30 years
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we've kind of pretended that there isn't, we pretended that whatever job it is engineer nurse nursery nurse soldier there should be this equality But isn the fact that although there are differences of course within males and females there
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are these stereotypes that, you know, normal people can observe? And you've hit the nail on the head. Normal people
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Yes. Again, you know, it is a case of, and I'll keep repeating it, the right person for the
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right job. You know, not a quota of, oh, we need a certain
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amount of these, a certain amount of those. You know, that's going to make us look
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all inclusive. We don't need to be inclusive. We need to be able to fight a
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war. We need to be able to defend our country. You know
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we need to be able to defend each other. But there still needs to be that sort of
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level of protection for the women in the forces. Yeah. And would you recommend a young person to join
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the armed forces right now? This day and No, not a cutting-house chance
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Because? I'm going to say it, and I don't care who... You know, who's..
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The woke society. You know, in my day, you were given an order, you obeyed it
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Yeah. Nowadays, you're given an order... Why? What am I doing that for? I'm not doing that. No, no
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Yeah, we don't need that. You need people that are going to obey orders
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because when you're out on the battlefield, you need to listen and command
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When you command, you obey. Not question and file a complaint? Not question and file a complaint, no
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I mean, I was asked to go back to the depot to train young recruits
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I walked in and found quilts on the beds and carpets on the floors. I was like, no, not a cutting-house chance
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Quilts on the bed and carpets on the floor? Were there pot plants there too? No, they came in afterwards
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You're not painting a very reliable picture here, Neil. But, Neil Pesce, thank you so much for coming in
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and being so candid with this as well. You're welcome. We have to read because we do, because we'll get the balance here
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The Spokes for the Ministry of Defence said, unexceptibly, Crinnell will behave as absolutely no play to the military
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and since this report was carried out in 2022, we've seen significant changes in the army
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