To not understand why Farage needs to be so smug and flippant about people losing their job?

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Just seen reports of the speech in which Nigel Farage tells council staff who are employed on DEI initiatives and climate change to “find new careers”.

I get Reform view these things as a waste of public money, and if they’ve been democratically elected on that mandate, then those departments will be cut.

However, whatever you think of those departments, the people he’s talking about are about to lose their livelihoods. They’ll have bills and families. I’m not saying that means they’re immune to cuts or they shouldn’t lose their jobs. I just don’t know why he feels the need to be so shitty about it.

I find it interesting that a number of posters continue to focus on Farage’s supposed lack of humility, and yet they fail to address the underlying cause of Reform’s success.

Rather strikes me as a case of playing the man or woman, rather than the ball.

By all means, crack on with that approach - it almost guarantees Labour will prove a one-term calamity.

That’s not what dei officers do. In fact they often create claims eg the person in sandy Peggie’s case

Careers teams were decimated by the Tories during austerity and have never recovered. In my experience what’s left is very focused on young people with SEND, and care leavers, because limited resources leave not much else for other groups. I’d love to see some
reinvestment in careers services in local government.