By Edi Amin
Pronouns: He he he!
TAXPAYER-funded Wokemoreland & Farcical Council is keeping staff on its ‘wokeforce’ busy by steamrollering through the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) agenda.
The Lib Dem dictatorship in charge – which never knowingly pass up the opportunity of a virtue signal – is expecting staff to go full tilt this year at EDI, hereby known as the gold Woke badge to complete the full Woke badge collection.
Council documents – which have so far eluded the attention of our local media – show that the EDI agenda is now being pumped into every pore and function of Council operations from Barrow to Kendal and Penrith.
Next week, Councillors will have to scroll through no fewer than THIRTEEN pages of A4 paper as Council managers on Westmorland & Furness document the “progress” being made on the new and unwieldly EDI Council Action Plan.
The information listed below is not a definitive list but these are among the things that the Council either wants, has implemented, or plans to start on in the coming months:
An EDI Hub. An EDI network. EDI Working Groups. EDI action plans for different directorates. Publishing EDI information on its website.
Establishing EDI gaps in the Council workforce. Appointing an EDI lead on the Council’s Senior Management Team. Redesigning and promoting EDI training to staff.
Creating an EDI work timetable. Developing an EDI pack for Councillors. Monitoring the uptake of EDI training.
Developing an EDI monitoring process for Council complaints. Creating an EDI annual calendar. Creating a Diversity Guide.
Collecting EDI data at applicant, job interview and recruitment stage. Collecting EDI data on Councillors in light of the Council’s Be A Councillor Campaign planned before the next elections in 2027.
Reviewing Council job advertisements for “inclusive” language. Mandatory EDI questions at job interviews.
Considering the diversity of recruitment panels for Council job interviews. Developing EDI training for recruiters.
Wowee! How the frig do Council staff find time to do ANYTHING else?
Last year, the Council hired an “Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Advisor” who is paid £45,000 on a 12-month contract (nice work if you can avoid it.)
In the job description of the Non-job, the Council admitted that the post-holder could expect only: “Minimal physical and emotional demands”.
(A work perk not common in the stressed-out Private Sector.)
We’d wager that there’s a strong chance that this Council EDI role will be extended.
After all, which Council manager having started to implement EDI would then dare to get rid of the EDI Advisor?
Checkmate!
In March last year, the Council also loudly celebrated National Inclusion Week which we’d never heard of before.
Apparently, it “encourages” employers to: “Take action to build inclusive workforces”.
Council staff in W&F were left in no uncertain terms what this celebratory week meant, with them being told it was: “A call-to-action to everyone in our Council…to apply an impact mindset to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion”.
(When they mention mindsets – it starts to sound like brainwashing!)
AS recently as Christmas, W&F Clowncil couldn’t even manage the most BASIC function expected by taxpayers and business owners.
It failed to take away overflowing festive bins in parts of Barrow, Dalton, Newton and Lindal.
Some residents called it “atrocious” and others said their bins hadn’t been emptied for six weeks.
Only this week, the grotesque state of a set of Council-run toilets was branded a “disgrace” by one of W&F’s OWN councillors.
And two vital bridges in W&F taking traffic from the sticks over the Kendal A591 bypass – remain shut since last June, leading to massive detours.
Here follows a controversial idea…
How about the Council put down the politically driven loony left ideology until such time as it has got local services humming perfectly?
Download the full horror of the Council’s EDI Action Plan below (sick bag not included).
thecumbriachronic.co.uk 
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