![]() ![]() Employers can have ethnic- or sex-based targets, but not quotas. In Britain, you see, you cannot practise positive discrimination – ie, hiring or promoting people on the basis of race and sex and boosting representation alone – but you can practise ‘ positive action’, which to a large extent is a distinction in search of a difference. First, did it discriminate against white men in a way that is unlawful under the Equality Act? Here, some rather heroic hair-splitting comes into play. The charge the RAF has to answer is two-fold. A Sky source also alleges that efforts were made to offer women and ethnic minorities places prior to taking a fitness test, allowing them a clear advantage over their white male counterparts. But this now seems to have been contradicted by the latest Sky News report. RAF chief Mike Wigston told MPs earlier this year that no discrimination had taken place and insisted ‘there was no compromise of entry standards’. ![]() When all this began to be uncovered, following backlash and incredulity among lower ranks, the RAF issued a series of non-denial denials. ![]() From then until early 2021, RAF top brass reportedly piled huge pressure on recruiters to ‘lift the ratio of recruits to 20 per cent ethnic minorities and 40 per cent females by 2030’. This discrimination drive (sorry, diversity drive) started in late 2020, the year of Black Lives Matter, when basically every Western institution was overrun by racial hysteria. Uncovered emails also reveal RAF bigwigs disparagingly talking about selection boards overly composed of ‘ useless white male pilots’. Now Sky News reports that 31 white men, adversely affected by the targets, are to receive £5,000 each in compensation. Tobias Ellwood MP, chairman of the defence select committee, says Nicholls identified 160 cases of white male recruits who were discriminated against before she resigned. The RAF has issued a series of obfuscating statements, but the evidence has kept on mounting. Group Captain Elizabeth Nicholl, then head of RAF recruitment, resigned in protest, refusing to implement what she called an ‘unlawful order’ to discriminate against white men, as part of an effort to boost the numbers of female and ethnic-minority recruits. Last summer, it was accused of pausing job offers to white male candidates in order to meet ‘impossible’ diversity targets. Because over the past year the RAF has found itself embroiled in a scandal about woke recruiting policies that is almost hard to believe. ![]()
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