Someday . . .
Close your eyes and imagine an American Secretary of Defense saying what the British Defence Secretary recently said:
"The suggested plans that have been revealed this weekend are not about protecting personnel or improving working conditions for minority groups.
They are about a divisive woke culture and the gradual introduction of controversial leftist thinking into the military workplace which threatens to distract us from our core mission – being a lethal force that can defeat our enemies.
So let me reassure people: there will be no lowering of security standards on my watch for any reason.
Remembrance events will remain Christian. Those suggesting otherwise fail to recognise the core beliefs and morals that our country and its people are about. And I say that as a Jewish Minister. It should not be offensive to anyone.
Many of the woke policies – such as compulsory unconscious bias training, which has been widely rubbished and scrapped for the civil service – are divisive.
They have the effect of setting individuals against each other, not bringing them together as an Armed Forces family.
Other suggestions have proved deeply unpopular and troubling, such as the introduction of gender neutral toilets. We will review all those policies.
Over time, a woke culture has seeped into public life and it is poisoning common sense discourse.
I am in a position to challenge this philosophy and I will.
There are serious issues we have to work on and I promise to address those during my term in service."
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