tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post145966738623146197..comments2023-08-29T09:01:57.436+01:00Comments on Musings of a Durotrigan: A Rotherham Riddle: who will benefit in Thursday's By-electionDurotriganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-61812878776584414622012-11-28T20:03:58.071+00:002012-11-28T20:03:58.071+00:00Oh dear. It sounds like you had a gruesome intervi...Oh dear. It sounds like you had a gruesome interview experience Derek. Durotriganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-66506217270857752782012-11-26T01:44:55.593+00:002012-11-26T01:44:55.593+00:00"What sort of level of diversity would you wa..."What sort of level of diversity would you want to see in the council workforce?"<br /><br />The correct answer is definitely not "Approximately the same as that in the population the council serves."<br /><br />I didn't get invited back for a second interview.DerekPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-41443982382725501042012-11-25T16:23:06.239+00:002012-11-25T16:23:06.239+00:00If such questions had been around when I applied f...If such questions had been around when I applied for my job, I would never have got it. They vary, but include such 'gems' as: 'How would you demonstrate a commitment to diversity?'; 'Could you provide us with examples of how you have dealt with diversity issues in the past?' and 'What is your understanding of "diversity"?'Durotriganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-15712447129159967652012-11-25T16:07:32.571+00:002012-11-25T16:07:32.571+00:00Could you give us some examples of the 'questi...Could you give us some examples of the 'questions', Durotrigan?<br /><br />Middle EnglanderAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-23491791991546407252012-11-25T10:52:31.465+00:002012-11-25T10:52:31.465+00:00It’ll undoubtedly be in there as part of the mix, ...It’ll undoubtedly be in there as part of the mix, ensuring that the diversity dogma is internalised or at the very least paid lip service by all public sector workers. You ought to see the degrading questions that we have to ask of interviewees with respect to demonstrating their 'commitment to diversity'. It makes me sick to the pit of my stomach to have to utter such rubbish, but my Durotriganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-5444144896833926142012-11-25T10:48:27.428+00:002012-11-25T10:48:27.428+00:00Joe, it would certainly seem that it is your secon...Joe, it would certainly seem that it is your second point that is at play in Rotherham. I have some experience of working in the area and therefore have come into contact with a number of council professionals, one of whom (without me bringing up the subject of politics) described UKIP as a ‘nasty, far-right, racist party.’ The odd thing is that she’s an otherwise decent person, but thought it Durotriganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-86867981877015757562012-11-25T10:40:50.475+00:002012-11-25T10:40:50.475+00:00I share your ambivalent position with respect to t...I share your ambivalent position with respect to the most desirable outcome for Thursday’s by-election, for it is true that UKIP possess one good policy: to leave the EU. However, as you note, its economic policy would not lead to national recovery, and could instead lead to an overall worsening of our position as well as to an erosion of public services, a further concentration of wealth in the Durotriganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-50094899186911239702012-11-24T23:50:15.769+00:002012-11-24T23:50:15.769+00:00Joyce Thacker has already been proven to be Common...Joyce Thacker has already been proven to be Common Purpose.Road_Hognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-48477761950810072292012-11-24T15:53:23.094+00:002012-11-24T15:53:23.094+00:00think common purpose.....think common purpose.....bilbonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-33030493175763031722012-11-24T14:19:25.880+00:002012-11-24T14:19:25.880+00:00Perhaps the social work department was trying to s...Perhaps the social work department was trying to send a message to Respect that they're on message, ie that democracy has no place in Rotherham when that democracy allows people to make choices the social services disagree with? <br /><br />Alternatively, maybe they're trying to feed the far-left narrative that people who distrust Europe and oppose uncontrolled immigration are "Joe Danielshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13813771610543530480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-14001592273839791162012-11-24T13:27:56.961+00:002012-11-24T13:27:56.961+00:00In one way I would hope UKIP do well if only becau...In one way I would hope UKIP do well if only because it will lead to more problems for the non-conservative globalist CONServative Party but in other respects I hope UKIP don't do well. UKIP have ONE good policy ie to leave the EU (though I am very sceptical about why they wish to leave) and apart from that policy they are part of the problem and not the solution. In the highly improbable Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com