Treating sick more important than diversity
Partly as a result of the present government failing to get a grip, but largely because of decades of such failure, the power of unelected bureaucrats in this country has grown to the point where our elected representatives are unable, or at least unwilling, to reign them in.
Despite the massive setback these functionaries suffered when the people demanded that the UK end rule by their fellows in Brussels, they continue to dominate large sections of our society, in particular the public services.
Theworkofthe clinical staff in the NHS is, as always, to be app-lauded, but overall the organisation resembles nothing so much as a Sovietstyle directorate, run for the benefit of unnecessary, vastly overpaid managers, aided and abetted by their HR departments, and in which anyone who dares to question their worth is treated as an enemy to be suppressed. The enormous sums made available by the government are being wasted in paying even more pointless apparatchiks, and offer little benefit to the staff actually treating patients, or to the latter themselves. The government’s supposed effort to deal with this have foundered, as the man, on paper apparently a good choice to investigate, has clearly been captured by the lobby which places their beloved EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion), above providing the best treatment for the sick.
In education, particularly at a higher level, the administrators have embraced woke dogmas, and are distorting the entire sector in pursuit of their absurd beliefs. Professors have tried to fight back but even Cambridge, one of our supposed senior universities is becoming a laughing stock, due to the determination of these ideologues to force it to become a centre of their new secular religion.
Unfortunately, this regulatory nightmare is true of much of the private sector, as that non-profession HR insinuates itself into so many commercial bodies, insisting that workers conform with ridiculous policies, seemingly designed to reduce, rather than increase productivity. This sort of interference was once confined to over zealous Health and Safety officials, who extended their activities from protecting those involved in hazardous tasks to imposing absurd restrictions where none was required, but these latter have now been overtaken by the apostles of HR.
Everywhere one looks there are hard working people making every effort to do their jobs, while being hamstrung by these managerial parasites. Unless the government takes action the latter will suffocate the economy with useless red tape.
Colin Bullen