“ BloodinGutters, exactly. I say this about any organisation, it's the easiest thing in the world NOT to discriminate, why the fuck should any reputable organisation need a lobbying group to tell them how to do so.”
You forget how entrenched Stonewall was - and still is.
When Government organisations, universities, schools, supermarkets, law firms, political parties, etc. etc. are all members of the Stonewall Diversity programme, the pressure to join the scheme is immense.
I remember being appalled when someone published the long, long list of all the organisations that were Stonewalled. I really began to understand just how this ideology had become so entrenched in almost every aspect of our lives.
I think it was the people who did the hard graft of writing to them all that started all this, all those FOI requests. They forced these organisations to evaluate exactly how much money they were spending on Stonewall’s programme and what they were getting out of it.