The CBI, hoisted by its own petard?

Our thanks to Nigel for a piece on the BBC website, Government shuns CBI lobby giant after rape claim. He writes:

One wonders if the CBI’s male executives might be feeling rather less inclined to virtue signal on the topic of quotas for women on boards and fast-tracking promotion of women. It seems this has not made them immune to the sort of scandal that makes the “Pence” doctrine of avoiding  women in work as much as possible look like common sense.
Increasingly the logic is not “diversity” but strict segregation of the workforce so no such accusations, which it seems always are followed by a social media storm of “he looked at me funny”, “it was “creepy” etc. could be possible.  Perhaps one could be forgiven some schadenfreude at seeing the unctuously PC CBI staffers caught in this sort of mess. They’ll find the truth and their innocence count for nothing.

How have major organizations not yet found an antidote to the feminists’ tactics? Feminists whip up ridiculous allegations of sexism, sexual offences and misogyny, following which the organizations put numbers of these useless parasites into senior positions where they force the organizations to do their bidding, including the advancement of women far more than they merit. The Metropolitan Police and the Welsh Rugby Football Union are but two recent examples.

Like Nigel, I have zero sympathy for the CBI. Over 10 years ago the organization was instrumental in driving the ‘women on boards’ agenda, and their senior people (including the director general) point-blank refused to engage with the evidence I sent them on behalf of Campaign for Merit in Business of the causal link between increasing gender diversity on boards and financial decline. One of my letters from 2012 to the director general is here.

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One thought on “The CBI, hoisted by its own petard?

  1. Thus far just accusations. A supposed rape, reported not to the police to to a manager, no one seems to question why one might report a serious crime might be reported to a manager in favor of the obvious reporting to the police. If you’d been beaten up would you tell your line manager instead of the police? But regardless of that of course there is the immediate “pile on” of the organisation being “cancelled” as if even one allegation means the whole body is suspect. And of course all the consequences occur long before anything is actually proven.

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