Last year, UK Air Chief Marshal Mike Wigston called for “profound” change in the hiring of personnel as he committed the Royal Air Force (RAF) to doubling recruitment of women to 40% by 2030 and 20% from ethnic minorities.
The head of the UK’s RAF recruiting team has resigned amid concerns the service paused recruitment of white males in favor of ethnic minorities and women in order to tackle diversity-related issues, according to Sky News.
The news outlet cited unnamed defense sources as saying that the RAF head – the senior female office whose name was not revealed – quit a few days ago in protest against “an effective pause” on recruiting white men.
The sources claimed that such a pause could undermine the RAF’s combat strength, berating the service for trying to hit “impossible” diversity targets.
One insider recalled how General Sir Patrick Sanders, the head of the Army, had likened modern-day security challenges to those in the run-up to World War II, arguing that the UK is now facing its “1937 moment.”
“Then you look at the head of the RAF [Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston] and he’s prepared to break the operational requirement of the air force just to meet diversity [targets]. I think he needs to be hauled up by the Ministry of Defense and told: This is the defense agenda, get on it,” the source added.
A spokesperson for former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, one of the two remaining Tory candidates to succeed outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson, told Sky News that “the only thing that should matter in recruitment is the content of your character, not your sex or the colour of your skin.”
“That the Ministry of Defense would allow Britain’s security to potentially be put at risk by a drive for so called ‘diversity’ is not only disgraceful, it is dangerous,” the official argued.
An RAF spokesperson, however, rejected the allegations and claimed that “there is no pause in Royal Air Force recruitment and no new policy with regards to meeting in-year recruitment requirements.”
The spokesperson insisted that RAF commanders “will not shy away from the challenges we face building a service that attracts and recruits talent from every part of the UK workforce.”
According to the spokesperson, “As with the Royal Navy and British Army, we are doing everything we can to encourage recruiting from under-represented groups and ensure we have a diverse workforce. The Royal Air Force has a well-earned reputation for operational excellence that is founded on the quality of all our people. We will always seek to recruit the best talent available to us.”
In December 2021, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin made it clear in his first speech as head of the Armed Forces that that he expected RAF chiefs to make diversity a priority.
Diversity is not about “wokefulness,” he said at the time, adding, “It is about woefulness. The woefulness of too few women. The woefulness of not reflecting the ethnic, religious and cognitive diversity of our nation.”
The remarks came after the RAF pledged it will use “targeted interventions” within a legal framework of “positive action” to meet diversity targets.
This means that when candidates for internal appointments are thought to be of equal talent and ability, preference will be given to women and minorities rather than white male recruits.
UK foreign secretary Lizz Truss didnt even know the distiction between baltic and balkan states. Such is her IQ. It is only a matter of time Lizz Truss is going to become the PM. Both defense secretary Wallace and home secretary Patel couldnt even recognise a Russian prankster. This is the level of IQ of British politicians and the state of affairs in UK. Labour leader Starmer has zero sense of reality and is always a designer coat wearing hypocrite. So it is not a surprise to see gender and race political correctness extended to the Dad’s Army. Perpetual liar BoJo gave laughabler assurances to Sweden and Finland that he will protect them until they join NATO! UK has no longer has a defense force that can withstand more than couple of weeks in a war in Europe. They cant win a nuclear conflict either. UK is living the past imagining it as a global power and in reality, its strength is just a tenth of what Turkey can do in Europe. NZ defense is playing the role of a tail for an old worn out dog called British army.
I remember applying to join the RAF in the 1970’s, and told such was only open to Citizens of the UK.
They had a pilot shortage at the time.
I was a fully-rated Commercial Pilot, with a 2-year Associates Degree.
UK Army Air Arm was never referred to…
(Prince William was an RAF Rescue Chopper Pilot, and Prince Harry flew HM Army Choppers).
It isn’t just the Armed Forces of Great Britain that are doing this;
Recently the US Marines were forced to march in women’s high heeled shoes, to show alignment with…(you guessed it…) DIVERSITY!!!!
The Armed Forces of the West are now very weak in aptitude, intelligence, physical capabilities, and lacking in the Warrior Mind-Set.
The pussification of these ‘men’ who are Soy Goy Boys (IF one can call them that) and false sense of female supremacy that the women are pushing with their FemiNazi human race-destroying LGBTQRSTUV agendas are now complete.
Who would want to serve under that crap???
More than likely, the forced Covid-19 untested bio-weapon vaccines will kill off these forces between now and 3 years in the future. Then,
The Defence Forces will be pleading for UNVACCINATED Veterans to return, unless they are forcibly drafted into service.
For me to go into the service once again, the MoD would have to;
1. Issue an apology for refusing to allow me to previously serve while fully-qualified to do so;
2. Pay a bonus to sign on (100,000 pounds);
3. Abbreviate return-to-service training;
4. Fully recognise my qualifications that now include a Masters Degree obtained via correspondence outside of the UK;
5. Assign rank and postings commensurate with flight experience / qualification(s), alternative advanced education;
6. Exemptions from being penalised for not being politically correct, and / or falsely accused of ‘sexual and racial harassment’ on the word of just one accuser.
In the meantime, I’m all prepped to defend, protect and fight for my family on my own terms, with many martial skills and alternative methods and means of waging war on a Lone Wolf scale against an enemy in the event we are invaded or suffer a Poseidon Tsunami Bomb or a nuke strike.
NONE of this needed to have happened IF the West would have listened to Vladimir Putin’s pleas to stop the encroachments and 8 years of attacks on the Donbass Region.
It’s a Talmudic Noahide Law enemy that we face, and which has also infiltrated governments, economies, and has warped defence capabilities. (see and read ‘Drawings from the Gulag’, and ‘The Gulag Archipelago’. This has already been practiced and enforced in history’s past, and inflicted on the Russian People!)
Bottom line; Is-Ra-El wants all non-J3w$ DEAD or ENSLAVED to their service in global, Greater Israel.
And thankfully, Putin stands in their way!
Who cares let immigrants,women and poofs join the governments hired thugs to fight and die in the MIC and bankers wars.I wouldnt want to put on a costume and march around and play soldiers and I certainly wouldnt want to get killed or maimed in the real thing for some wanker who starts a war,let them fight it
I can see the sentiment of the white ruling elite, after all the pandering, putting up on a pedestal, praising, worshiping, looking the other way, coping, making excuses for their behaviour, throwing buckets of money at diversity its about time that they had their pound of flesh in return, after all they do know that straight white males will not continue to be the well that keeps on giving forever when you label them white supremist, privileged, oppressors, entitled, racist, bigoted, transphobic, homophobic, they will wake up on day like I did a long time ago and just decide to be nice and to take a step back and watch all wait for the storm that’s going to wash all the sh*t away.