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There’s a reason Liz Truss chose to blame society’s ills on ‘identity politics’ in her speech this week
Liz Truss, minister for women and equalities. Photograph: STAFF/Reuters
Liz Truss, minister for women and equalities. Photograph: STAFF/Reuters
Fri 18 Dec 2020 12.15 EST
Last modified on Fri 18 Dec 2020 18.58 EST
Spare a moment for Liz Truss, minister for women and equalities, whose literacy and numeracy skills were apparently damaged by being educated about discrimination. “While we were taught about racism and sexism,” she claimed, reflecting on her childhood schooling, “there was too little time spent making sure everyone could read and write”.
Liz Truss said diversity efforts should be based on ‘facts’ not ‘fashion’
17 December 2020 • 8:30pm
On Thursday, Ms Truss unveiled an overhaul of equalities policy that involves a renewed focus on tackling poverty and regional disparities
Credit: Paul Grover
White working-class children have been “neglected” because the Government has prioritised helping other groups facing discrimination, the Minister for Women and Equalities, Liz Truss has said.
On Thursday, Ms Truss unveiled an overhaul of equalities policy that involves a renewed focus on tackling poverty and regional disparities.
Outlining the Government’s “moral and practical mission” to build a fairer society, she said that for too long the equalities debate has focused on the nine characteristics protected by law, which include race and gender, at the expense of class and geographical location.
His Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm seeks to topple figures with links to the slave trade and other injustices of a bygone era. While the mayor lavishes taxpayer s cash on his politically correct projects, the Metropolitan Police and Transport for London have been battling funding crises.
Since Mr Corbyn quit as Labour leader after last year s general election humiliation, grassroots Leftwingers have looked to Labour-run town and city halls across the country to further their aims. Frustrated that their dream of a hard-Left government headed by their socialist idol has been crushed, they seek to continue the culture war at a local level.
RESIDENTS have blasted a council s new street names - which include Respect Way, Humanity Close and Inspire Avenue. Baffled Brummies living in Birmingham s Perry Barr have branded the road names as PC nonsense which do not reflect the reality of the working class area. The suburb has depravation levels among the worst in the country and is currently undergoing redevelopment for the 2022 Commonwealth Games. As part of the £500 million project an Athletes Village was supposed to be built providing accommodation for 6,500 athletes and team officials. But this was scrapped in the summer after a review into the impact of the coronavirus pandemic found it could not be delivered on time.
Or a combination of any or all of the above?
For inspiration, we can look to Birmingham where this week the city council chose the names of six new streets on a cohesion/shared values theme. As you do nowadays.
Locals can now look forward to living in Humanity Close, Equality Road, Diversity Grove, Respect Way, Inspire Avenue and Destiny Road. (I get the feeling they were running out of virtue-signalling steam with the last one).
We re pretty keen on the jargon of inclusion ourselves, so surely we could do even better than that around here?
Surely, we could have our own Equality Streets. (Other confectionery-related place names are available).