WTF is happening in the UK?
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https://www.rt.com/news/561038-raf-recr ... aign=Email
Top RAF official quits over woke policies – media
A policy restricting the recruitment of white men in a bid to meet diversity goals will hurt fighting strength, she said
The head of recruitment and selection for the UK’s Royal Air Force has resigned in protest over hiring restrictions on white males in a bid to meet “impossible” diversity goals, defense sources told Sky News on Tuesday.
The group captain reportedly expressed concern in her letter of resignation that placing limits on hiring could hurt the unit’s fighting strength.
Her apparent departure followed claims by defense sources that the RAF had imposed an “effective pause” on hiring white males, while pushing to hire more women and ethnic minorities.
Top RAF official quits over woke policies – media
A policy restricting the recruitment of white men in a bid to meet diversity goals will hurt fighting strength, she said
The head of recruitment and selection for the UK’s Royal Air Force has resigned in protest over hiring restrictions on white males in a bid to meet “impossible” diversity goals, defense sources told Sky News on Tuesday.
The group captain reportedly expressed concern in her letter of resignation that placing limits on hiring could hurt the unit’s fighting strength.
Her apparent departure followed claims by defense sources that the RAF had imposed an “effective pause” on hiring white males, while pushing to hire more women and ethnic minorities.
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If there is one profession where you can't put anything over capability, it's the armed forces.
The social contract, from Socrates onwards, requires that the State must defend the populus to justify its authority.
The social contract, from Socrates onwards, requires that the State must defend the populus to justify its authority.
W.B. Yeats, The Second ComingTurning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
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An apt poem, suffused by the Christian spirit of the apocalypse, for his time, but also for our time, and perhaps for all times. When Protestant Yeats wrote that poem the "War to End All Wars" had just come to an end. The old certainties in Irish politics has been thrown into disarray by the Irish War of Independence after the 1916 uprising, and his wife had become very ill in the 1918 flu pandemic.Fox3WheresMyBanana wrote: ↑Wed Aug 17, 2022 10:10 pmIf there is one profession where you can't put anything over capability, it's the armed forces.
The social contract, from Socrates onwards, requires that the State must defend the populus to justify its authority.
W.B. Yeats, The Second ComingTurning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Plus ca change, but things do change too. I doubt that wars on "woke" would have moved Yeats's mystical soul as much as the fact that we seem to have learned little over the last 100 years or so, as we stumble inexorably onwards, towards another potentially truly apocalyptic war, and all around, conviction, save for ephemera and for the meanest of principles, seems to be absent everywhere!
My necessaries are embark'd: farewell. Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.
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I think there's still a lot of conviction about...but expressing it publicly will get you convicted.
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Add this winter's power cuts, and the entire country will be run by mushroom management
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When all else fails, read the instructions.
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Jame Sob says it all.
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Anyone know what their objectives are?
When all else fails, read the instructions.
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But they know they’re s**t
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This explains all
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.....and still the idiots will vote Conservative.
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It describes it, but doesn't explain it.
An explanation would have to count as Horror rather than Comedy.
As would an honest ad for Labour.
I'm off to block more firewood!
p.s. they forgot to mention that the Climate Change plans only work if 90% of the World's population dies. Soon.
An explanation would have to count as Horror rather than Comedy.
As would an honest ad for Labour.
I'm off to block more firewood!
p.s. they forgot to mention that the Climate Change plans only work if 90% of the World's population dies. Soon.
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Because the only two serious alternatives are infinitely worse!
We hates Bagginses!
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The basic structure of the human brain involving trust requires the use of the pre-frontal cortex
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25485710/
..and this largely shuts down when a person is stressed. Thus people find it very difficult, if not impossible, to develop a new trust in a time of crisis.
So, the average voter isn't about to do something radical, like voting for an independent candidate, or voting for a new party led by someone they don't know, or organising a conscious boycott of elections.
In short, Better The Devil You Know.
However, ALL the current crop of politicians are the problem, because the system that produces them is the problem.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25485710/
..and this largely shuts down when a person is stressed. Thus people find it very difficult, if not impossible, to develop a new trust in a time of crisis.
So, the average voter isn't about to do something radical, like voting for an independent candidate, or voting for a new party led by someone they don't know, or organising a conscious boycott of elections.
In short, Better The Devil You Know.
However, ALL the current crop of politicians are the problem, because the system that produces them is the problem.
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I fear you have been brainwashed. Can anything be worse?Smeagol wrote:Because the only two serious alternatives are infinitely worse!
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Well here's one thing I've noticed. How friendly people are, at least in Teddington, compared to France and Spain. Oh, and as I don't want to be called a DOM., I won't mention how beautiful the girls here are in their bikini tops and tight hip-hugging trousers.
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They not in Roses ?
Have you seen the picture of a palm embedded in a car on the Roses Paseo ?
Local council now going to remove the palms for safety.
https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/ITORRO10?cm_ven=localwx_pwsdash
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Ask Ernie about that?
Aye folks are folks... wherever they be from!
My necessaries are embark'd: farewell. Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.
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Well, that decides it - Priti Patel MUST surely get some sort of honor for achieving a significant lift to the cross-channel migrant daily total.