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NHS blasted for 'creating division' with 'anti-white' recruitment policy
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Apr 14, 2025
The NHS has sparked fresh outrage after reportedly "discriminating" against white applicants, in favour of black and ethnic minority candidates.Documents have shown that recruiters are encouraged to use the Rooney Rule, a policy originating from American football that makes it mandatory for ethnic minorities to be shortlisted for interviews if they apply.FULL STORY HERE.
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You know, has Britain just got so addicted to DEI everything
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I mean, you know, as you said, I mean, I believe in meritocracy. You know, I don't think anyone would want to be told you got a job over someone else because of your skin colour or your ethnicity or your religion
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But are we just addicted to this now, Charlotte? What's going on here? We've seen these stories every week
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I think you're so right. I think there's been a habitual pattern, especially it is always government organisations or the police or NHS particularly, isn't it
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and it's just become so ingrained now in society that I think when somebody puts together a job
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spec they can't help but include this it's just because they're afraid not to perhaps
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or it's just become completely de rigueur and you know actually I think the time has come to think
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you know people have to be employed in merit as you say it would be horrible to get a job and think
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I've just been employed because of my skin color and the other thing that I have a bit of a bugbear
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about with the NHS is, because I've had three children and I've been to many a maternity ward
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and waiting line, and it's fine to wait in line. But if you are non-English speaking and you need
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a translator, they put you to the front of the queue as well there. And that creates so many
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problems because I've seen literally, you know, pregnant mums sort of scrapping about this
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It actually creates diversity. And the logic between in the maternity wards is because
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what they do is they hire in a translator for say an hour at great expense and of course
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anyone who needs a translator needs to go within that hour so there is logic to it but what it does
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is it creates division in the waiting line it's a group of mums who want to be friends and share
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stories and anecdotes about their pregnancy and they're scrapping because they feel unfairness
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is going on so i do think when people devise these policies they've got to think how can we
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make people unified and not diverted from one another Just one really interesting tidbit here I reading this as we go just so the audience understand I not fully briefed in it
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But NHS England documents encourage the use of a thing called the Rooney Rule
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an American football policy that makes it mandatory for the ethnic minorities to be shortlisted for interviews if they apply
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This is more American nonsense entering Britain, in my opinion. Why are the NHS doing this
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I mean, sure, as you said, there's there's when most people, most of us enter and use NHS services, we see very diverse faces and we just want to be served by the person who's going to look after us the most
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Is this evidence here, these NHS documents with American, you know, DEI policies just prove that we're taking too much over from America
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Well, maybe, although, of course, Trump is now famously trying to go quite in the other direction
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But, yeah, I do think it's an NHS thing, because as we know, the NHS is completely bureaucratic beyond belief
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And, of course, any opportunity to create another tick box exercise or another layer of paperwork you have to get through, you know, they just seem to jump at the chance
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I do hope that changes about the NHS. And, of course, Kirsten was wrapping up NHS England
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And I just think we have to, there's not enough money to go around at the NHS as it is
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So you don't need to be spending, you know, lots of money creating these targets
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Absolutely. Well, let's move on to another Telegraph piece on this police silence over Southport
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Killings made riot violence worse. We've just been discussing that on the panel here
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An interesting bit here, obviously, about MPs saying they didn't find there was a lack of information
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saying that they couldn't determine whether or not disorder could have been prevented
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Of course, they're saying that this information vacuum is a result of outdated laws
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What's this all about? I mean, the MPs have been debating this for clearly quite a long time
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We're only hearing this now, with months, many months after the fact
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