Somehow it’s hard to imagine the Queen and Prince Phillip being on board with this latest attack of PC insanity *UPDATED*
Bookworm on Sep 22 2009 at 9:40 pm | Filed under: Britain, England, GBLT
The Queen and Prince Phillip were born in the 1920s. They are, I gather, inherently conservative people. While moving in the British upper classes has no doubt exposed them to a great many gays and lesbians (and I’m sure their manners allow them to take those interactions in stride), I’m not sure that the elderly duo is ready for this bit of PC overkill:
On Tuesday the Metropolitan Police posted an advertisement inviting ‘special groups’ to apply to protect the Royal Family at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Balmoral.
Police chiefs ordered the recruitment drive amid concerns that there are not enough officers from minority groups guarding the Queen.
But critics accused the Met of bowing to political correctness.
The advertisement from Scotland Yard’s Royalty Protection Branch, known as SO14, invites armed officers from all backgrounds to apply for the role to ‘deliver residential protection through a combination of fixed posts and mobile patrols’.
The recruitment notice, which was posted internally within the Met, reads: ‘Successful officers can expect to work at London palaces or Windsor Castle and officers are required to perform tours of duty in Scotland.
‘Applications are particularly welcomed from women, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and black and minority ethnic communities/people as these are under-represented-within SO14.’ Successful candidates must be trained in firearms and will be expected to work 12-hour shifts.
If it was me, I’d want people who are really good at the actual job: protection. Their sexuality and gender identity should be subordinate to that mission. End of story.
UPDATE: From a reader: “OK, somebody has to say this . . . . You mean they’re going be the Queen’s QUEENS?!!!”
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I wonder if the Brits are a case study in what happens to a nation after it loses its empire…a long slow nervous breakdown spanning a couple of generations?
One government office recently admonished its non-Muslim staff not to eat in front of Muslims during Ramadan as it might tempt them not to complete the fast.
Uhhh.
Can you imagine the Brits ever admonishing their non-Catholic staff not to eat meat in front of Catholics on Friday, lest they tempt them?
I am beyond contemptuous of these people.
Self-loathing and moral preening, the twin passtimes of the suicidally moribund while they open their cultural wrists and bleed out.
Beautifully said.
a long slow nervous breakdown spanning a couple of generations?
This started with Britain’s acceptance of government welfare and socialism. Their colonies had already been falling by the time of Churchill and WWII, but it wasn’t until they rejected Churchill and his politics that Britain went on the path of the NHS, welfare, multiculturalism, disarmament, etc.
Translation:
Under represented by what criteria? If the percentages are 1%, then 1 in 100 should be part of that minority.
Excathedra – it began well before WWII. The General Strike – which was in 1926 – was designed to (and did) shut the country more or less completely down. It was a demonstration project, just to remind everyone who was really in charge – and it wasn’t the politicians.
Government, (which had been realizing this in increments prior to that time), now got to realize via a total face-full that what they controlled was pretty limited. They had little to say about how large government old-age pensions were going to be – and nothing at all to say about whether or not they would be. They would. The government equally had nothing to say about whether the NHS would come into being: it would. They had nothing to say about the continued existence of useless, unnecessary, but protected jobs: they would (and will, and do) continue to exist.
Same thing, or an extension thereof, here. Whatever the security chiefs think is now secondary to what the union thinks, and the union apparently has somewhat different priorities and qualifications for the job. Those are the priorities and qualifications that will prevail.
Greetings:
I’m thinking that somebody has forgotten a bit of near-British history. Didn’t Indira Ghandi, the Prime Minister of India and a Hindu, get assassinated by one of her Sikh bodyguards? Something to think about, especially the way the Muslims have been carrying on in the former Great Britain.