Governments Ethics watchdog resigns.

Fucking hell, that is actually just embarrassing. How do these people get these jobs?! I've absolutely worked my arse off for my career and I'm squeaky clean, how do these abusive losers somehow just glide through life getting handed everything on a plate? Did he honestly not think to himself, 'Oh, that looks like a great opportunity but I'm probably not quite the right fit'?! Did nobody ask him; 'is there anything that could be problematic in your past for this really high-profile role?'? And clearly nobody actually bothered to check either. It's almost unbelievable!

Ethics and integrity!

My goodness, it would actually be comical if it wasn’t so fucking awful.

Perhaps they should only hire women for top jobs...

Fucking hell 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

due diligence anyone??

I mean not grabbing your colleagues breasts feels like it should be a basic level of professionalism at work no?

Multiple roles that should have had proper vetting, multiple allegations that should have been investigated, ridiculously lenient treatment of the only one that was investigated (very partially - in both senses). Shitshow.

The one bright spot was the other male officer present at the time of the assault actually reporting it.

Power, arrogance, misogyny, delusional aloofness, sociopath.

The treatment of the woman police officer in question was reprehensible. In addition to a complete failure to carry out an appropriate investigation, Sterling also claimed that the two were in a relationship, leading to her being blamed. The chief constable had to issue an apology after the force recorded the incident as "a case of “inappropriate conduct between serving police officers” rather than the sexual assault that it was. He also had a number of other allegations made against him.

As ever, men like him float to the top. As ever the civil service proves itself to be the employer of yet another man unsuited for public office.

I originally thought that appointing Mandelson as Ambassador to the USA was a triumph of hope over reality but it now looks like Government policy.

How is it an 'allegation' if he admitted doing it?

And how did he just get to carry on working?

I was thinking the same after all the Nvidia stuff and the celeb nonces. Just employ women. Give the men some jigsaws and sit them at the back.

Multiple allegations, one admitted offence.

Women are no guarantor of ethics.

Look at Paula Vennells, former CEO of the Post Office and ordained Church of England priest (now stepped down) who presided over the wrongful convictions of hundreds of sub-postmasters, some of whom took their lives and many financially ruined, due to the Post Office Horizon IT scandal. One of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British history.