Our thanks to Nigel for this (Telegraph, £). He writes:

“Though this highlights ethnicity and race it includes women as “minority”. The most telling thing is that the women (and males from favoured groups) are invited specifically to the extra help and told not to reveal this to their colleagues. [J4MB emphasis] Which suggests the Met’s top brass realise how bad this will look to the majority of their force (oops sorry “service” we can’t have it being forceful can we?) . Looks like a pretty good way to undermine morale to me.”

GB News covered the issue yesterday, here. It includes a video (4:50) of their presenter Nana Akua, talking about the issue. The text on the link starts with this:

“Urgh.. here we go again.

Previously we had West Yorkshire Police being accused of having a “racist” recruitment policy for putting a temporary block on the hiring of white candidates.

Now we have the Metropolitan Police offering bespoke workshops to ethnic minority and female candidates to help them gain promotions.

Why? A former officer who served in the Met for three decades told The Telegraph: “Ethnic and female officers are individually selected and given additional workshops, coaching and access to professional coaches to make sure they are better prepared for the final promotion exam.

“White males are excluded from these workshops simply because of their biological sex and colour of their skin.” [J4MB emphasis]

Apparently eligible ethnic minorities candidates are sent an email that reads: “You have been selected to attend this workshop as the Met has a series of People Priorities, which underpin the organisation’s overall strategy, one of which is to improve black and minority ethnic and female representation at all police officer ranks.

“As part of the approach to achieving this, frameworks for focused support are provided for both BME and female candidates to nurture and develop their talents, including provisions to support preparation for assessment – this workshop is one such provision.

“Therefore we ask that you do not share this email with your colleagues as all eligible candidates have been invited individually.” [J4MB emphasis]

Yes – of course they don’t want you to share this, they know it’s wrong. The fact that you think that because I’m black, I will need bespoke coaching to get a promotion tells me that either you don’t think black people are good enough because of the colour of their skin or it’s an admission that those controlling the hiring are racist.”

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