Our new Minister for Common Sense, former GB News star Esther McVey, came out fighting setting out her priorities for setting the country back on a path of prudence and pragmatism.
Esther has declared a war on wokery, particularly on public sector waste and absurdly foolish employment practices.
Taxpayer value for money is essential. That's your cash, ladies and gentlemen, being wasted on vacuous and self-righteous roles such as diversity officers.
Jacob Rees-Mogg says the Equality Act should be scrapped
GB News
We need something to be done to stop this happening.
According to a Freedom of Information request from the Taxpayers Alliance last year, the National Health Service in England employs 800 diversity and inclusion officers, costing us £40 million a year.
Many of these people are paid more than nurses, who I think most of you would think a bit more useful.
Ms McVey also slams bizarre employment practices within the public sector which waste your cash, a particularly egregious scandal during a period of record inflation and a cost of living crisis.
Public sector workers are public servants and they need to be allowed to get on with their jobs, not spend all their time and energy in moralistic progressivism.
The Minister for Common Sense was brought in to make sure that employees can spend their time doing the jobs for which they're paid, not worrying about whose tender sensitivities they may offend or filling in a gender or race diversity quota.
And this is a great aim, Esther. I wish her success. It is fundamentally important. It will lead to a better, more efficient state.
But there is a problem and that is the Equality Act, which creates the public sector equality duty which has put wokery into legislative form.
Before she can really win her battle, this Act will need to be repealed - so taxpayer value can be fully restored.