Publicly-funded Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) roles in the United Kingdom are costing the country “at least half a billion pounds a year,” according to the Cabinet secretary responsible for business and trade.
Olukemi ‘Kemi’ Badenoch, raised partly in Nigeria and partly in the U.S., made the admission in an op-ed for the notionally right-wing Telegraph following a review of so-called Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) – the preferred term for DEI in Britain.
“The UK has seen an explosion of EDI roles in organisations,” she wrote. “Studies found that the UK employs almost twice as many EDI workers per head than any other country. This same analysis estimates that EDI jobs in our public services are costing the taxpayer at least half a billion pounds a year.”
She noted that, in the private sector, “employers are even inadvertently breaking the law under the guise of diversity and inclusion by censoring beliefs or discriminating against certain groups” — namely Christians, heterosexuals, and white people — “in favour of others.”
She also acknowledged the scandal involving an unlawful, anti-white recruitment policy at the Royal Air Force — for which no one was punished.
Badenoch built her reputation in Britain’s Conservative Party by criticizing race ideology, breaking out as a public figure by insisting that teaching Critical Race Theory (CRT) and “white privilege” as fact in British schools was unlawful during the Black Lives Matter disorder of 2020.
However, no action was ever taken against schools disseminating such ideology, and she later refused to comment on the socialized National Health Service (NHS) pushing anti-“whiteness” training on staff.
In recent weeks, she posted a picture of herself wearing a hijab at a mosque in the Sharia-governed United Arab Emirates, claiming it was a symbol of “tolerance,” as her party was being accused of “Islamophobia.”
show lessThe highlight of my trip was a visit to the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, one of the largest in the world.
It is a spectacular building.
The architecture and design takes inspiration from all over the globe, emphasising a welcoming and profound message of peace and tolerance. pic.twitter.com/nYwJPLTAhq
— Kemi Badenoch (@KemiBadenoch) March 2, 2024
