Suella Braverman - sacked as Home Secretary (p394)

[Aphex]

Against the law, but difficult to prove (and often unconscious). It happens all the time and compounds over time too. If someone doesn't get a great opportunity early on, then when they go for jobs later, they legitimately don't get them because their CV isn't as good.

I don't believe any company would actively do that. Do you have any examples?

 

[I'm With Stupid]

I don't believe any company would actively do that. Do you have any examples?

Yeah, there were studies where they send out CVs with 'foreign sounding' names and they get asked to interviews massively less than 'British sounding' ones, even when all other details on the CV are identical. Why do you think the laws are necessary in the first place? Surely every company would always want to hire the best person for the job? But in reality, it doesn't work like that. I literally had a friend experience this first hand, admittedly in Vietnam, but applying for a British company that claimed an 'equal opportunities' policy. She applied for the job initially with her Vietnamese name and wasn't offered an interview. She then applied again for the same job using her American-sounding middle name and was immediately called in for an interview.

There's also a big study here if you want to read it about the wider issues. But some of the key points from the executive summary:

- ethnic minorities are more likely to be overqualified for the role they're in, but white employees are still more likely to be promoted
- ethnic minorities are more likely to be underemployed than white people (i.e. have fewer hours that they want)

Now obviously some of that can be explained by recent immigrants, who may lack the language skills to match their other qualifications and thus be underemployed. But when you combine it with the various studies that have been done, it's pretty clear that there is still discrimination in hiring.

Here's one done in America, but it incorporates data for various countries including the UK. Around 90 studies, mostly involving applying to real jobs with fake CVs and deliberately including racial markers in the CVs that would indicate someone's ethnic background. And then comparing that to CVs with no racial markers. Only France has improved since the 80s, and that only brought it into line with other countries from a poor starting point.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

GB News: “82% of you think we should leave the ECHR”
I’m surprised 82% of the audience don’t think that’s just a simple test of “are these letters in alphabetical order?”
Lee Anderson up next...

It says everything about the rabbit hole that we’ve gone down, caused in no small part by the sort of people who watch GB News, that the day the highest court in the UK hands down a judgment that expressly states that the decision was not dependent on our membership of the ECHR, 82% of viewers think it’s time to leave - and thereby impliedly place the blame for the decision with that institution.

These people have massively contributed to the reduction in the nation they want to champion. They are inadvertent saboteurs and walking away from the ECHR will accentuate their reckless vandalism.

Further turning our back on Europe will be another catastrophic mistake.

 

[johnnytapia]

It says everything about the rabbit hole that we’ve gone down, caused in no small part by the sort of people who watch GB News, that the day the highest court in the UK hands down a judgment that expressly states that the decision was not dependent on our membership of the ECHR, 82% of viewers think it’s time to leave - and thereby impliedly place the blame for the decision with that institution.

These people have massively contributed to the reduction in the nation they want to champion. They are inadvertent saboteurs and walking away from the ECHR will accentuate their reckless vandalism.

Further turning our back on Europe will be another catastrophic mistake.

I wonder if we can get a discount: leave the UN at the same time. And that left-wing basket case NATO.
Anderson was pissed last night, barely able to string a sentence (I know, that’s par for the course for him) but it’s symbolic of how far we’ve plumbed the depths that the Deputy of the governing party can spout such inebriated bollocks day in, day out.

 

[BobKowalski]

It says everything about the rabbit hole that we’ve gone down, caused in no small part by the sort of people who watch GB News, that the day the highest court in the UK hands down a judgment that expressly states that the decision was not dependent on our membership of the ECHR, 82% of viewers think it’s time to leave - and thereby impliedly place the blame for the decision with that institution.

These people have massively contributed to the reduction in the nation they want to champion. They are inadvertent saboteurs and walking away from the ECHR will accentuate their reckless vandalism.

Further turning our back on Europe will be another catastrophic mistake.

Leaving the ECHR will likely become the new ‘leaving the EU’ cause. Usual media will bang on about how we need to be free of unelected judges etc etc. Leaving will also become a pre-requisite for getting on in the Tory party and at some point it will probably happen and become something else the country will have regrets over as the ramifications over leaving come to pass.

 

[Bodicoteblue]

Leaving the ECHR will likely become the new ‘leaving the EU’ cause. Usual media will bang on about how we need to be free of unelected judges etc etc. Leaving will also become a pre-requisite for getting on in the Tory party and at some point it will probably happen and become something else the country will have regrets over as the ramifications over leaving come to pass.

political ‘rinse and repeat’
The same mistakes will be made by the same people who still believe the voices in their ear about control and sovereignty.
’Those who fail to learn from their mistakes are doomed to repeat them’.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Leaving the ECHR will likely become the new ‘leaving the EU’ cause. Usual media will bang on about how we need to be free of unelected judges etc etc. Leaving will also become a pre-requisite for getting on in the Tory party and at some point it will probably happen and become something else the country will have regrets over as the ramifications over leaving come to pass.

Maybe it’s time that the sensible factions in UK ‘took back control’ of our country. It’s been hijacked by fucking lunatics.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I wonder if we can get a discount: leave the UN at the same time. And that left-wing basket case NATO.
Anderson was pissed last night, barely able to string a sentence (I know, that’s par for the course for him) but it’s symbolic of how far we’ve plumbed the depths that the Deputy of the governing party can spout such inebriated bollocks day in, day out.

His elevation perfectly encapsulates our fall as a nation.

 

[Kirkstall Blue]

Who is lying Jenrick or Braverman, working on plan B for several months

 

[Gingers Dad]

Swap the wetherspoons and working men's clubs for the gay bars and you might overhear some of the regulars talk about their boyfriends?

Just thought of why diversity would be a good thing. More black and brown genes in the melting pot means gingers will eventually go extinct.

Fckin Gingerist.