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Work, Not Woke: Minister Rees-Mogg Orders Scrapping 'Absurd' Diversity Training for Public Servants
Work, Not Woke: Minister Rees-Mogg Orders Scrapping 'Absurd' Diversity Training for Public Servants
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The conservative politician urged departments to scrap "fancy courses" which are allegedly not valuable to British taxpayers, as the cabinet prepares to cut... 02.07.2022, Sputnik International
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Minister for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency Jacob Rees-Mogg declared a crusade against "ridiculous" diversity training for public servants. He has ordered the government development hub to revamp those courses that "are subject to mockery", and add training that would develop skills useful for the civil servants' job.Among the programs targeted by the politician is 'Check Yo Privilege', which he called "in its very name a politicized course". It is run by the Cabinet Office and teaches officials to be aware of their own backgrounds when talking about British society. Another workshop mentioned by Rees-Mogg was run by the legal department and offered officials to imagine a "Japanese gay grandfather" in an exercise on empathy.The minister stressed that the absurd courses deserve the mockery, since they "damage the whole ethos of the Civil Service" and cost taxpayers money.While he can't directly order the canceling of the programs since they are controlled by departments Rees-Mogg noted he would ask secretaries of state to review them.
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Work, Not Woke: Minister Rees-Mogg Orders Scrapping 'Absurd' Diversity Training for Public Servants
07:34 GMT 02.07.2022 (Updated: 15:20 GMT 28.05.2023) The conservative politician urged departments to scrap "fancy courses" which are allegedly not valuable to British taxpayers, as the cabinet prepares to cut over 90,000 civil service jobs out of 475,000 in a bid to save the budget and cease skyrocketing inflation.
Minister for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency Jacob Rees-Mogg declared a crusade against "ridiculous" diversity training for public servants. He has ordered the government development hub to revamp those courses that "are subject to mockery", and add training that would develop skills useful for the civil servants' job.
"There will be a new [training] curriculum coming which will stop these absurd courses being available. And they are particularly in diversity and wellness areas", Rees-Mogg told the Telegraph.
Among the programs targeted by the politician is 'Check Yo Privilege', which he called "in its very name a politicized course". It is run by the Cabinet Office and teaches officials to be aware of their own backgrounds when talking about British society. Another workshop mentioned by Rees-Mogg was run by the legal department and offered officials to imagine a "Japanese gay grandfather" in an exercise on empathy.
The minister stressed that the absurd courses deserve the mockery, since they "damage the whole ethos of the Civil Service" and cost taxpayers money.
"I think the course was to explain to people how they’d had an unfair advantage in life and wasn’t that awful? But try and think of the opposite", he added. he added. "What if you had a course, let’s say: 'Celebrate your inner Eurosceptic?' The Civil Service would be outraged. But it’s comparatively a political subject".
While he can't directly order the canceling of the programs since they are controlled by departments Rees-Mogg noted he would ask secretaries of state to review them.
