What Is It With This Diversity Epidemic?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-3607243/Theresa-May-criticises-lack-diversity-fire-rescue-crews.html

If your house was burning down to the ground, would it really matter what the sex or the skin colour was of those sent to put the flames out?

[THECORBYLOON]

If you believe sex and colour do not matter, why do you you raise them as issues when you think women or non-whites are treated more favourably than men and white folk?

[mikey4444]

AOG..........Why do you think that the Fire Service is "96% white and 95% male" ?

[mushroom25]

//AOG..........Why do you think that the Fire Service is "96% white and 95% male" ? //

could you enlighten us? (one of the figures is inaccurate, btw).

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// AOG..........Why do you think that the Fire Service is "96% white and 95% male" ? ///

Could it be that this country has a greater percentage of white people than dark skinned ones, plus the fact that perhaps among those only 4% of non whites decided to take up fire fighting as a career?

And although we can take it that females represent 50% of the population, once again only a very small percentage of women may wish to join or are even physically able to reach the required standard to enable them to qualify.

[anotheoldgit]

THECORBYLOON

Try answering the question.

/// If your house was burning down to the ground, would it really matter what the sex or the skin colour was of those sent to put the flames out? ///

[mikey4444]

Ah....now I understand ....its because not enough non-white and/or females WANT to become firefighters ?

[mikey4444]

Mush...copied and pasted directly from AOG's DM link.

The Home Secretary said the firefighter workforce is "96% white and 95% male".

[THECORBYLOON]

ANOTHEOLDGIT, it would not bother me but would it bother you if they were 95% black or 95% Muslim?

[mikey4444]

Good question Corby !

[TheChair]

While we are on statistics, it's interesting to note that of AOG's last 16 questions, 50% are concerned with race and/or immigration.

[THECORBYLOON]

ANOTHEOLDGIT, HMF have 10% females, do they have lower standards than the fire brigade?

[mushroom25]

the home secretary is in error - see
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fire-and-rescue-authorities-operational-statistics-bulletin-for-england-2014-to-2015
and look at the excel spreadsheet representing Appendices 1 to 13. the figure might have been accurate in 2008. whilst the number of ethnic firefighters hasn't changed much in 8 years, the toal workforce has bee "right-sized" by nearly 10,000.

[mikey4444]

Mush....I am having difficulty with the excel spreadsheet....could you some-up the info contained in the files please ?

[youngmafbog]

It's because it's the new right-on thing to do AOG.

I'm rather curious on the 95% Muslim suggestion. As Islam is a religion not a race and believers are of all skin colours and genders (well only straight ones I suppose) how would you know what religion your fireperson was?

[THECORBYLOON]

If statistics revealed that 95% of firefighters were Muslim, I suspect that may be of concern to some.

[youngmafbog]

Particularly those who are gay and being rescued from a tall building.

[agchristie]

The service will soon be renamed the 'PC Brigade' and the fire chief on site will be marked by a black helmet!

We will be getting to the point that there has to be at least four black jurors where the accused in a criminal case is also black!

Where are people looking for problems worrying about diversity?

What matters is a speedy response and safe service conducted by efficient firefighters of whatever ilk.

[dannyk13]

I'm waiting for the Ms May complains that there are not enough white bus drivers.

[dannyk13]

day^^

[agchristie]

Maybe the BME community just don't have a burning ambition?