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Britain
UK Government considers rejecting and firing staff based on political opinions
2004-09-19
I have little time for the BNP, as do most people in the UK, but that's totally beside the point. Members of the British National Party are being considered unemployable untermenschen fit to be excluded for the good of 'diversity'. If they aren't allowed to work for the Government, perhaps they'll be allowed to pay no taxes...
The Home Office is considering whether to ban BNP members from working in the civil service. Martin Narey, the government's exclusionality diversity champion, is working on the issue but no decision has been taken. A Home Office spokesman emphasised the matter has not yet been discussed with ministers and is still at civil servant level. The Association of Chief Police Officers recently decided officers could not be BNP members. The British National Party has done well in recent elections, and says it is wrong to stop people from being members of a legal political party. The party denies it is racist. Former anti-apartheid activist and Commons leader Peter Hain described the BNP as a "vile party of Nazis and thugs" and suggested last week that its members were not fit for office.
After all, a 'thought crime' must be just as bad as other crimes. It's called a crime, and as we all know there ain't no such thing as a victimless crime...
In November last year, Home Secretary David Blunkett backed a ban on police officers being BNP members, and chief constables agreed the measure two months ago. The Sunday Times reported that civil service unions had already been consulted over a ban. It quoted Charles Cochrane, secretary of the Council of Civil Service Unions which represents 400,000 workers, as saying there was an "inescapable illogic" behind a ban. "There isn't any fundamental legal obstacle to this."
Beyond blatant infringement of basic human rights, using political affiliation to deny a person employment?
But it is understood that new legislation might be needed to enforce a ban. The BNP has said bans on membership are "anti-democratic" and could challenge any proscription using the Human Rights Act. But if brought in, the civil service would argue, like the police have, that being a member breaches rules on diversity.
Newspeak. This is an example of extraordinarily overt insane PC illiberal self-parody. Some are obviously considered 'more diverse' than others. Who next? Communists? Pro-hunters? Why not?
BNP spokesman Phil Edwards told the Sunday Times: "This is totalitarianism, Soviet-style. It shows they are extremely worried."
And prepared to act like the fascists they accuse you of being.
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Posted by: Bulldog   2004-09-19 4:30:27 PM  

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Posted by: Tony (UK)   2004-09-19 4:16:50 PM  

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