The beginning of the end of political correctness - The Telegraph

drc

Interesting blog article in The Telegraph.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geraldwarner/100008053/the-beginning-of-the-end-for-political-correctness-the-counter-revolution-has-begun-in-doncaster/

You do not have to go all the way in supporting the English Democrats party, whose silly proposal for an English parliament would add another superfluous layer to already excessive government, to raise a glass to Peter Davies, the party’s elected Mayor of Doncaster. Davies, the father of Tory MP Philip Davies, is one of just 11 directly elected mayors and he is enjoying increasing media exposure because of his outrageous agenda which, against all the tenets of consensual British politics, consists of doing what the public wants.


In his first week in office he cut his own salary from £73,000 to £30,000, which is putting one’s money where one’s mouth is. He also scrapped the mayoral limousine. He is ending Doncaster’s twinning with five towns around the world, an arrangement which he describes as “just for people to fly off and have a binge at the council’s expense”. He intends now to reduce (that’s right, reduce) council tax by 3 per cent this year.


The “diversity” portfolio has been abolished from the council’s cabinet. From next year no more funding will be given to the town’s “Gay Pride” event, on the grounds that people do not need to parade their sexuality, whatever it may be, at taxpayers’ expense. Black History Month, International Women’s Day and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History Month are similarly destined to become history.


Council funding of translation services for immigrants has been scrapped because he believes incomers should take the trouble to learn English. Officials have been ordered to abandon bureaucratic gobbledegook language. Davies is saving the taxpayers £80,000 by disaffiliating from the pointless Local Government Association and the Local Government Information Unit. He aims to abolish all non-jobs on the council, as epitomised by “community cohesion officers”. He is taking advice from the Taxpayers’ Alliance and the Campaign Against Political Correctness.


Davies’s views are calculated to put Harriet Harridan into intensive care for six months. He disregards all “green claptrap”, is creating more parking spaces to encourage traffic in the town for the benefit of business (”I’m not green and I’m not conned by global warming”). He has asked the Electoral Commission to reduce the number of Doncaster’s councillors from 63 to 21 (”If Pittsburgh can manage with nine councillors, why do we need 63?”).


You may be feeling disorientated, overcome by a surreal sensation, on hearing such extraordinary, unprecedented views. They are the almost forgotten, forcibly extinguished voice of sanity which most people had thought forever excised from British politics. These policies are common sense, which is something we have not experienced in any council chamber, still less the House of Commons, in decades. The establishment is moving heaven and earth to discredit and obstruct Davies. He is that ultimate embarrassment: the boy who reveals that the Emperor has no clothes.


If it is good enough for Doncaster, it is good enough for Britain. Our effete, corrupt, politically correct politicians must be compelled to follow suit. Once upon a time, such policies would have been axiomatic in the Tory Party. In the Cameron-occupied Conservative Party of today they are regarded as anathema. There has to be an inflexible public will to enforce the country’s wishes on the political class under pain of ejection from public life. That is the sole agenda for the next general election. The mainstream parties, as currently constituted, are no longer electable.

wageslave

Davies, the father of Tory MP Philip Davies, is one of just 11 directly elected mayors and he is enjoying increasing media exposure because of his outrageous agenda which, against all the tenets of consensual British politics, consists of doing what the public wants.

It will never catch on:cool:

bluey890

The public sector ministries will do eveything in their power to stop, blackmail or discredit him.
I have seen the Yes Minister series, I know how the decision making process works.

Mr_Mumble

A more exhaustive look at his policies and interview here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1209841/ROBERT-HARDMAN-The-PC-supermayor-slashed-public-spending-axed-pointless-jobs-banned-word-diversity.html

mewbie_2

Oh well, stuff the thanks count...

He sounds like a right wing BNP loving git to me.

In fact.. what a t0sser.

'I have only two words of German: "Auf" and "Wiedersehen", ' he says. 'But those are the only words I need.'

I have two words of Anglo Saxon for him...

LydiaJ

Yes, he does sound like a BNP loving git, and a sexist bigot too. But why aren't there any other politicians (with less objectional personalities) doing the things he's doing to save money and axe the kind of non-jobs that the public don't want and the nation can't afford???

Is it possible for a politician to understand, for example, that pregnant women often need to work, or that traveller children get a very raw deal educationally and need help if they are to be employable as adults, etc etc AND understand that many of the things that councils currently fund are a waste and abuse of taxpayers' money?

wageslave

mewbie wrote: »

He sounds like a right wing BNP loving git to me.

Ok, so he isn't perfect......

mewbie_2

LydiaJ wrote: »

non-jobs that the public don't want and the nation can't afford???

Problem is defining non-jobs. For instance I have no real need for a Black History month, but I am assuming it may give disenfranchised black people a measure of pride. Similarly International Womens day will pass me by, but again I am sure it has its purpose for those people it is aimed at.

It is very easy to target the non mainstream spending, and slip back to the 70's for a nice white heterosexual racist little Britain.

People love knocking the PC view of the world. Because just under the horizon are a whole cesspit of bigoted views waiting for a justification to resurface. And in a recession it doesn't take long to start looking for targets and people to blame.

I don't normally bother with this stuff - it's pointless - we all believe what we want and these sorts of views are not for changing.

bluey890

mewbie wrote: »

Oh well, stuff the thanks count...

He sounds like a right wing BNP loving git to me.

In fact.. what a t0sser.

'I have only two words of German: "Auf" and "Wiedersehen", ' he says. 'But those are the only words I need.'

I have two words of Anglo Saxon for him...

O.K. I gave up reading it, how is he racist or sexist?
Could it be that a plot to discredit him has already started?
Just asking, as I said I didn't read it, Daily Mail articles bore me.

LydiaJ

Well I take your point, mewbie, and I agree with you up to a point. However... I'm a woman, and while we are obviously not a minority, we are a section of the population that do get special stuff organised for us. I don't like it. Except in special circumstances (one wouldn't want a mixed refuge for victims of sexual violence, for example) I'd rather things were integrated rather than segregated.

For example, a few years ago there was a big initiative to help women scientists and engineers back into the workplace after career breaks to have children. They planned to create a number of women-only part time jobs. Why did the part-time jobs have to be women-only?? The sort of full time working, standard career path man wouldn't apply for a part-time job even if it wasn't labelled women-only. Men who have some legitimate reason for wanting to work part time (such as a friend of mine who was in poor health at the time) need just as much help and are just as deserving of a chance of a job as women who want to work part time for more conventional reasons.

The same principle could be applied more widely. Rather than trying to give an artificial, segregated, divisive leg up to the disadvantaged, work out what sorts of things would help them, and let those things be open to everyone. Level the whole damn playing field, don't just fence off particular areas of grass and put platforms on stilts just on those.

Jennifer_Jane

Yes, I didn't read it either - can I have a 'Low concentration span for the Elderly' day please - I feel disenfranchised.

So on the face of it, he sounds like he's cutting costs. So, without reading it, that sounds good to me...

Jen
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