The BBC has advertised for a Diversity Advisor – only liberal fascist social engineers need apply

“Diversity” is, of course, a classic liberal wank-word, just as the role of “diversity advisor” is a classic liberal wank-job. The aim of the role, one presumes, will be to fill various quotas – mainly racial - in the time-honoured fashion: hiring a few more Asian accountants, Muslim security guards, black cleaners and people in wheel-chairs. When it comes to editorial jobs, appointments are probably still vaguely merit-based (after anyone who might turn out to be to the right of Ed Miliband has been weeded out, of course), which means that blacks, Asians and disabled people involved in programme-making are actually good at what they do. As for managers, it’s often impossible to tell how these overwhelmingly white, Oxbridge-educated types landed their jobs (it’s often even more difficult to tell why their jobs exist at all).

I have no idea where the BBC is on LGBT quotas, but my impression when I worked there was that all of these groups are vastly over-represented. Perhaps the new advisor could advise sacking a few to level the playing field. (Don’t hold your breath.)

Of course, the only sections of the license fee-paying community which are chronically, grotesquely, ridiculously and scandalously under-represented at the BBC are conservatives and right-wingers. While we make up at least 40% of those who finance the BBC, we probably only represent 20% of the non-editorial work-force. When it comes to general programme-making, I’d guess it was well below 20%. As for News, we’re probably below 10%, and politics would be 5% at best.

The BBC pumps out Soviet-era style quantities of left-wing propaganda for the simple reason that its programme-making staff and editorial management are overwhelmingly left-wing. Four things would have to happen for this depressing state of affairs to change: (1) The Tory party turned into a proper right-wing party (2) The electorate voted it into power (3) The resulting Tory government went medieval on the BBC’s biased backside, starting with its disgustingly slanted reporting of the Economy, Welfare, the EU, Climate Change, Education, Christianity, the Middle East, the Obamessiah, Business and the NHS, and at the same time demanded the sacking of every ranting communist agitator masquerading as a professional comedian (4) the BBC appointed a group of right-wing diversity advisors (if there is such a creature) to sort out the whole sordid, unfair, maddening mess.

Of course, none of these things is going to happen, so people like me are going to have to go on forking out an annual license fee in order to have an army of smug, overpaid lefties tell us that our economic, social and religious views are wrong and evil.

The Corporation could have saved a lot of space by replacing the term “Diversity Advisor” in its adverts with the more accurate “Left-Wing Social Engineer”. Everyone would have known exactly what sort of twit they were looking for and they could have jettisoned all this nauseating tosh:


Diversity Advisor

Job Introduction
Working in Diversity, within a BBC People Centre of Expertise, is challenging, demanding and highly rewarding. In such a dynamic environment we pride ourselves on being central to the success of the BBC’s mission to be the most creative organisation in the world and one that reflect the diversity of the audiences we serve.

Role Responsibility
The Diversity Advisor supports the work of the corporate Diversity Centre and the Head of Diversity.  You will advise individuals or teams - both centrally and in the business - on equality and diversity compliance and best practice. You  will articulate the business and creative benefits of diversity, supporting action planning and helping to ensure issues are resolved by outlining options and making recommendations.  The solutions will be fit for the business showing a true understanding of the challenges and encouraging an on-going partnership.

The Ideal Candidate
With demonstrable experience of designing, implementing and evaluating equality and diversity policies, strategies and interventions, you will have proven experience of providing practical advice / consultancy on equality and diversity to influence and support departmental and corporate decision-making. You will be involved in supporting and advising on the alignment of equality and diversity compliance/ regulatory requirements to business imperatives and have strong interpersonal, management and communication skills. With the ability to proactively identify the equality and diversity dimensions and opportunities in  business planning including within strategies; projects; proposals and plans;  to identify creative opportunities for collaborative working and to achieve focused outcomes you will have the confidence and the ability to engage managers constructively, and raise awareness of the breadth and strategic importance of the equality and diversity agenda.

One's heart sinks - it really does.