Anas Sarwar has a cheek seeking to clarify what self-id is. He whipped his party to vote for the GRR Bill, despite their amendment to deny sex offenders the right to self identification failing. Then along came ‘Isla’ Bryson and we all know what happened then!
That a penny of public money is spent on this insidious ideology is an affront to hard-working taxpayers in Scotland. It needs to be stamped out and all trace of it removed from our schools and other public bodies.
Agreed. It’s not as if Labour didn’t know what Self ID meant back in 2022. They just went with the flow - the climate of propaganda created by these state-funded trans activists. So did most of the media of course. Outrageous. Now of course everyone is Standing with Peggie. Well better late than never. But until we take their money away these LGBTQIA+ hyenas will be back.
Sadly the situation in NHS Fife is not only due to the baleful influence of various advocacy groups, but indicative of the way HR in the NHS conducts itself. This case is a perfect example.
Bullying and Harrassment policies are drafted such that anything can be construed as bullying. In my not inconsiderable experience of witnessing what HR in the NHS calls "investigations", being asked to give "witness" statements - where hearsay is accepted as fact, and having been accused of bullying and been subject to these investigations I know what I'm talking about.
The usual scenario is one of three things
1) Two people just rub each other up the wrong way. It happens
2) Someone is performance managed- or an attempt is made to to do so. You say you are being bullied by that manager when you may not be cutting the mustard
3) Usually a nurse feels a female doctor is a bit uppity - lets face it if she can do it, it must be easy, and who is she to tell me what to do.
Once the allegation is laid the complainer reads the B and H policy and realises he said/she said might not be enough so they then allege the person put "patients at risk"- even if that person has an unblemished career with no previous issues raised.
Then the game is on. The person didn't say hello to me in the corridor one morning(3 months ago) so they ignored me. They disagreed with me in a multi-disciplinary meeting(usually when the complainer was displaying their lack of knowlege) so they undermined me. Or the complainer was trusted by the so called bully to complete a clinical task- that means the alleged bully was unsupportive.
HR then carries out an "investigation" which is drawn out as they procrastinate, equivocate and fully obfuscate in the hope the two people will bury the hatchet, one will leave, or go on long term sick - problem solved.
If you have the temerity to raise an issue that might end up making HR or any manager look silly or incompetent you will be suspended. Once again in the hope you will resign. If you don'tyou are humiliated on return by being moved to another department and "supervised"
Imagine NHS Scotland HR as a pantomime. The scenary shakes. The minor performers can't figure out which end of the pantomine horse is the head. The prinicipals arrive and confidently speak their lines from Mother Goose. Only to be reminded by the despairing union rep and alleged bully, they are appearing in Aladin.
It’s a pantomime from hell! Laughable were it not for the fact that this pettiness destroys peoples’ careers and peace of mind. The only way to stop it is to take away the money from all the HE quacks and phoney equality advisors. The NHS is under too much critical scrutiny right now to allow this nonsense to continue a moment longer.
I hesitate to completly agree. In the 1980s and 1990s there was if not shout out loud sexism and racism the hiring policies would not now be tolerated. Certain young men- usually white, not always, seemed to have a golden path laid before them with a presumption that when a plumb senior registrar or research job came up in a unit they would have it. I went to a number of interviews in those times when everyone knew what the outcome was going to be. I was told as student not to try and do orthopaedics because women were not suited to the specialty - well go to the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh and the female orthopods seem strong enough!. The same for my specialty neurology. The women who had tried to progress in this most rarefied of specialties(it's not really) either gave up for lack of advancement or the few that made it were damaged from the constant undermining of their judgement and knowledge by male consultants who didn't seem to want them in the specialty.
So we need to ensure an equal kick of the ball for everyone.
Sadly DEI and other closely aligned enterprises seem to have burgeoned with the huge increase in people with university degrees which unlike medicine or engineering don't qualify them for anything, but do engender a belief they should have a 'professional' job earning above the average wage. These people have become the priests in what is a secular religion.
Kirkcaldy has revealed one truth about the modern NHS - it seems to be an organisation for promulgating social justice. With health care as a nice to have but not a must have.
A very informative piece Mr Macwhirter. I had forgotten about Douglas Ross until he popped up yesterday in parliament with a reasonable request for the government to comment on this whole sorry story
Agreed Ruth, and I don't think Iain was saying that as he didn't attack any other aspect of the DEI agenda. Sadly, those who consider themselves progressives, aren't allowed to have nuanced opinions anymore. We have to buy in to the full basket of goods, or we're ostracised. What's even worse about that is that poverty alleviation doesn't appear to be part of this basket of goods anymore.
Great piece Iain!
Anas Sarwar has a cheek seeking to clarify what self-id is. He whipped his party to vote for the GRR Bill, despite their amendment to deny sex offenders the right to self identification failing. Then along came ‘Isla’ Bryson and we all know what happened then!
That a penny of public money is spent on this insidious ideology is an affront to hard-working taxpayers in Scotland. It needs to be stamped out and all trace of it removed from our schools and other public bodies.
Agreed. It’s not as if Labour didn’t know what Self ID meant back in 2022. They just went with the flow - the climate of propaganda created by these state-funded trans activists. So did most of the media of course. Outrageous. Now of course everyone is Standing with Peggie. Well better late than never. But until we take their money away these LGBTQIA+ hyenas will be back.
Sadly the situation in NHS Fife is not only due to the baleful influence of various advocacy groups, but indicative of the way HR in the NHS conducts itself. This case is a perfect example.
Bullying and Harrassment policies are drafted such that anything can be construed as bullying. In my not inconsiderable experience of witnessing what HR in the NHS calls "investigations", being asked to give "witness" statements - where hearsay is accepted as fact, and having been accused of bullying and been subject to these investigations I know what I'm talking about.
The usual scenario is one of three things
1) Two people just rub each other up the wrong way. It happens
2) Someone is performance managed- or an attempt is made to to do so. You say you are being bullied by that manager when you may not be cutting the mustard
3) Usually a nurse feels a female doctor is a bit uppity - lets face it if she can do it, it must be easy, and who is she to tell me what to do.
Once the allegation is laid the complainer reads the B and H policy and realises he said/she said might not be enough so they then allege the person put "patients at risk"- even if that person has an unblemished career with no previous issues raised.
Then the game is on. The person didn't say hello to me in the corridor one morning(3 months ago) so they ignored me. They disagreed with me in a multi-disciplinary meeting(usually when the complainer was displaying their lack of knowlege) so they undermined me. Or the complainer was trusted by the so called bully to complete a clinical task- that means the alleged bully was unsupportive.
HR then carries out an "investigation" which is drawn out as they procrastinate, equivocate and fully obfuscate in the hope the two people will bury the hatchet, one will leave, or go on long term sick - problem solved.
If you have the temerity to raise an issue that might end up making HR or any manager look silly or incompetent you will be suspended. Once again in the hope you will resign. If you don'tyou are humiliated on return by being moved to another department and "supervised"
Imagine NHS Scotland HR as a pantomime. The scenary shakes. The minor performers can't figure out which end of the pantomine horse is the head. The prinicipals arrive and confidently speak their lines from Mother Goose. Only to be reminded by the despairing union rep and alleged bully, they are appearing in Aladin.
It’s a pantomime from hell! Laughable were it not for the fact that this pettiness destroys peoples’ careers and peace of mind. The only way to stop it is to take away the money from all the HE quacks and phoney equality advisors. The NHS is under too much critical scrutiny right now to allow this nonsense to continue a moment longer.
I hesitate to completly agree. In the 1980s and 1990s there was if not shout out loud sexism and racism the hiring policies would not now be tolerated. Certain young men- usually white, not always, seemed to have a golden path laid before them with a presumption that when a plumb senior registrar or research job came up in a unit they would have it. I went to a number of interviews in those times when everyone knew what the outcome was going to be. I was told as student not to try and do orthopaedics because women were not suited to the specialty - well go to the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh and the female orthopods seem strong enough!. The same for my specialty neurology. The women who had tried to progress in this most rarefied of specialties(it's not really) either gave up for lack of advancement or the few that made it were damaged from the constant undermining of their judgement and knowledge by male consultants who didn't seem to want them in the specialty.
So we need to ensure an equal kick of the ball for everyone.
Sadly DEI and other closely aligned enterprises seem to have burgeoned with the huge increase in people with university degrees which unlike medicine or engineering don't qualify them for anything, but do engender a belief they should have a 'professional' job earning above the average wage. These people have become the priests in what is a secular religion.
Kirkcaldy has revealed one truth about the modern NHS - it seems to be an organisation for promulgating social justice. With health care as a nice to have but not a must have.
A very informative piece Mr Macwhirter. I had forgotten about Douglas Ross until he popped up yesterday in parliament with a reasonable request for the government to comment on this whole sorry story
Thing is DEI isn't just about trans matters, despite the best efforts of noisy campaigners. So let's not chuck the baby out with the bath water.
Agreed Ruth, and I don't think Iain was saying that as he didn't attack any other aspect of the DEI agenda. Sadly, those who consider themselves progressives, aren't allowed to have nuanced opinions anymore. We have to buy in to the full basket of goods, or we're ostracised. What's even worse about that is that poverty alleviation doesn't appear to be part of this basket of goods anymore.