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Why is Britain's economy in the toilet? Answer number 4,982:


"Publicly traded companies in Britain must have, or “explain to the regulator” why they do not have:

- A minimum of 40% women on their board of directors
- A woman CEO, chairman of the board, CFO and/or Senior Independent Director
- A board member who is an ethnic minority

Why is anybody confused about why so few companies want to list here and so few promising startups scale up here?

Would you agree to put people in charge of your company on the basis of their sex or race in order to meet a diversity quota?

These rules were brought in by the Conservative Party in 2022, BTW."

https://x.com/s8mb/status/2033445415555645442?s=20

Note, again, the explicitly racist exclusion of "whites" in the rules

Can you list all the FTSE100 boards with no white members given they are apparently excluded? I'll give you a clue, you should be able to type the full list in no time at all.

Which proves absolutely fuck all, as you know - or you are too stupid to read the tweet and see the reference I am citing

This is racist discrimination against white people. And it's just one example of hundreds, maybe thousands, all in the name of Diversity and Wokeness

We are surely the first race and civilisation in history to discriminate AGAINST ourselves, and in such overt, destructive ways. The backlash, if it comes, will be ugly indeed, and entirely unnecessary

The hegemony of the majority ethnic group on positions of power is so entrenched that efforts to reduce it slightly will lead to a horrifying backlash? That's possible, I suppose. Rupert Lowe is positioning for exactly this, isn't he, with his Restore (white supremacy) vehicle and they are quite short (17) to win the next GE. But I'd hope we weren't so fragile and I don't think we are. It's a lay imo. A strong lay.

On topic.
On latest info available less than 50% ftse100 and ftse250 met the Women on boards requirement, even lower for Women in senior leadership, only the at least 1 ethnic minority board member requirement is close to being met.

Productivity and company performance has been dismal way before the representation on boards requirement came in, it's the "stale white male promote in their own image" boards that have resulted in the "share price when my options vest" short termism rather then long term planning.

A decade or so back, it was being touted how much cheaper and more successful S Korean company boards were than UK or US.

Why is Britain's economy in the toilet? Answer number 4,982:


"Publicly traded companies in Britain must have, or “explain to the regulator” why they do not have:

- A minimum of 40% women on their board of directors
- A woman CEO, chairman of the board, CFO and/or Senior Independent Director
- A board member who is an ethnic minority

Why is anybody confused about why so few companies want to list here and so few promising startups scale up here?

Would you agree to put people in charge of your company on the basis of their sex or race in order to meet a diversity quota?

These rules were brought in by the Conservative Party in 2022, BTW."

https://x.com/s8mb/status/2033445415555645442?s=20

Note, again, the explicitly racist exclusion of "whites" in the rules

Can you list all the FTSE100 boards with no white members given they are apparently excluded? I'll give you a clue, you should be able to type the full list in no time at all.

Which proves absolutely fuck all, as you know - or you are too stupid to read the tweet and see the reference I am citing

This is racist discrimination against white people. And it's just one example of hundreds, maybe thousands, all in the name of Diversity and Wokeness

We are surely the first race and civilisation in history to discriminate AGAINST ourselves, and in such overt, destructive ways. The backlash, if it comes, will be ugly indeed, and entirely unnecessary

Grumpy old man moans about modernity is a story as old as time itself.

A truly devastating response. I am so crushed I may have to stop commenting for the rest of the day

Rarely have I been more keen for one of your posts to be true.

I am at the recycling centre. I find going to the recycling centre oddly satisfying. I’m trying to work out why

1. I’m doing something worthy
2. It gives me a little hit of community spirit
3. I am genuinely getting rid of annoying junk, which pleases

Inside me there is some tiny tiny centrist dad. I think this - recycling - is the one time his reedy little voice gets heard. It’s the one time I feel like you, or @kinabalu or @OnlyLivingBoy or the rest of the unutterably dreary rabble of witless liberal bores that dominates this dying forum

You were once an enfant terrible edgelord even on here, but your humdrum domestic situation is very much the mark of a centrist dad. Congratulations!

The road from home decor advice to the HWRC site is but a short walk.

Mate. It’s not funny

Since my last report from the front line of centrist dorkism, I’ve just discussed bin collection with a neighbour, had a cheerful little chat with some workmen on my road, and now I’ve just bought more celeriac from Whole Foods

This may just be the most centrist dad early afternoon in the history of sensible jerseys

I used to go to warzones

Sorry but Sandpit has taken over the cocktail reviews while in a war zone post...

Why is Britain's economy in the toilet? Answer number 4,982:


"Publicly traded companies in Britain must have, or “explain to the regulator” why they do not have:

- A minimum of 40% women on their board of directors
- A woman CEO, chairman of the board, CFO and/or Senior Independent Director
- A board member who is an ethnic minority

Why is anybody confused about why so few companies want to list here and so few promising startups scale up here?

Would you agree to put people in charge of your company on the basis of their sex or race in order to meet a diversity quota?

These rules were brought in by the Conservative Party in 2022, BTW."

https://x.com/s8mb/status/2033445415555645442?s=20

Note, again, the explicitly racist exclusion of "whites" in the rules

Can you list all the FTSE100 boards with no white members given they are apparently excluded? I'll give you a clue, you should be able to type the full list in no time at all.

Which proves absolutely fuck all, as you know - or you are too stupid to read the tweet and see the reference I am citing

This is racist discrimination against white people. And it's just one example of hundreds, maybe thousands, all in the name of Diversity and Wokeness

We are surely the first race and civilisation in history to discriminate AGAINST ourselves, and in such overt, destructive ways. The backlash, if it comes, will be ugly indeed, and entirely unnecessary

Grumpy old man moans about modernity is a story as old as time itself.

A truly devastating response. I am so crushed I may have to stop commenting for the rest of the day

Rarely have I been more keen for one of your posts to be true.

I am at the recycling centre. I find going to the recycling centre oddly satisfying. I’m trying to work out why

1. I’m doing something worthy
2. It gives me a little hit of community spirit
3. I am genuinely getting rid of annoying junk, which pleases

Inside me there is some tiny tiny centrist dad. I think this - recycling - is the one time his reedy little voice gets heard. It’s the one time I feel like you, or @kinabalu or @OnlyLivingBoy or the rest of the unutterably dreary rabble of witless liberal bores that dominates this dying forum

Also, it is an achievable physical task which has an end goal which we can see when it has been achieved - this is something we are hard-wired to feel satisfaction for, but which we get precious few opportunities to experience nowadays.

Yes, something for the hands other than tap tap tap on a keyboard. I'm trying to get more of that in my life.

How do we think Trump will respond to Europe uniformly rejecting his demand for help in Hormuz when he wakes up?

Calmly and through usual diplomatic channels?

He can tell them they have a choice between pulling their weight and submitting to Russia.

Your conclusion from the Ukraine war is that Russia could succeed in a broader war against Europe that would force us to submit to them without US help?

You only need to pull your weight in a conflict you've agreed to take part in. We didn't agree to take part, so no weight pulling necessary.

If anyone the lesson of the last four years is that the great military powers are not as dominant in imposing their will on others as they previously thought they were.

I’m talking about energy policy. If the straits of Hormuz stay closed and energy prices start causing major economic problems, the Bart de Wever view that Europe should normalise trade with Russia will gain ground.

What BdW said in his interview with L'Echo was...

Un deal avec la Russie semble la seule solution envisageable.

His broader thesis is that the policy of buggering on until Russia surrenders isn't working and can't ever work because the US is just not that into it. So there is going to have to be a deal and a normalisation of relations.

The problem is Russia won’t do a deal, until it becomes clear to Putin that total victory is unobtainable. By which point, his military will be in dire straits.

It’s like Stalin putting out peace feelers to Hitler in 1942/3. Hitler was not interested, and after Kursk, Stalin had no reason to seek peace.

If you missed it last night a fascinating breakdown of voting intention by wealth in the Ipsos poll, with Labour now the party of the wealthy having lost the poor and working class and much of the lower middle class to Reform and the Greens.

'Starmer Labour lead with the comfortably off but Reform lead with all other social groups with Farage's party polling highest with the financially precarious/extremely vulnerable followed by the financially stable and also leading with the just about coping.

Kemi's Tories like Starmer Labour poll best with the comfortably off while the LDs do best with the financially stable. The Polanski led Greens like Reform do best with the financially precarious/extremely vulnerable'
https://x.com/Ipsos_in_the_UK/status/2033147506322772415?s=20

Absolute proof that PB is atypical. There's not much support for Labour among our contributors, the vast majority of whom I would suggest are comfortably off, if not wealthy.

There is more support on here for Labour than Reform though, so in that sense it is somewhat typical of its demographic

True. But I wonder if we have a 'shy Reformer' effect going on. Overtly confessing an intention to vote for them is a bit like mooning the forum. It takes a certain sensibility to do that. Easier to just push their talking points - as for example Kemi does and tbf SKS too sometimes (although less so now because of the Greens).

I sympathise with Reform, and I also have grave doubts about them. That’s probably quite a common position. It’s probably similar to someone in 1920, wondering whether to choose Liberal or Labour.

Why is Britain's economy in the toilet? Answer number 4,982:


"Publicly traded companies in Britain must have, or “explain to the regulator” why they do not have:

- A minimum of 40% women on their board of directors
- A woman CEO, chairman of the board, CFO and/or Senior Independent Director
- A board member who is an ethnic minority

Why is anybody confused about why so few companies want to list here and so few promising startups scale up here?

Would you agree to put people in charge of your company on the basis of their sex or race in order to meet a diversity quota?

These rules were brought in by the Conservative Party in 2022, BTW."

https://x.com/s8mb/status/2033445415555645442?s=20

Note, again, the explicitly racist exclusion of "whites" in the rules

Can you list all the FTSE100 boards with no white members given they are apparently excluded? I'll give you a clue, you should be able to type the full list in no time at all.

Which proves absolutely fuck all, as you know - or you are too stupid to read the tweet and see the reference I am citing

This is racist discrimination against white people. And it's just one example of hundreds, maybe thousands, all in the name of Diversity and Wokeness

We are surely the first race and civilisation in history to discriminate AGAINST ourselves, and in such overt, destructive ways. The backlash, if it comes, will be ugly indeed, and entirely unnecessary

Grumpy old man moans about modernity is a story as old as time itself.

A truly devastating response. I am so crushed I may have to stop commenting for the rest of the day

Rarely have I been more keen for one of your posts to be true.

I am at the recycling centre. I find going to the recycling centre oddly satisfying. I’m trying to work out why

1. I’m doing something worthy
2. It gives me a little hit of community spirit
3. I am genuinely getting rid of annoying junk, which pleases

Inside me there is some tiny tiny centrist dad. I think this - recycling - is the one time his reedy little voice gets heard. It’s the one time I feel like you, or @kinabalu or @OnlyLivingBoy or the rest of the unutterably dreary rabble of witless liberal bores that dominates this dying forum

You were once an enfant terrible edgelord even on here, but your humdrum domestic situation is very much the mark of a centrist dad. Congratulations!

The road from home decor advice to the HWRC site is but a short walk.

Mate. It’s not funny

Since my last report from the front line of centrist dorkism, I’ve just discussed bin collection with a neighbour, had a cheerful little chat with some workmen on my road, and now I’ve just bought more celeriac from Whole Foods

This may just be the most centrist dad early afternoon in the history of sensible jerseys

I used to go to warzones

Advice from one centrist dad to another... put your black bin schedule in your phone's calendar. Then you can always put the right bins out each week and take the coveted position of 'binfluencer' - the person the neighbours look to emulate on bin day.