A police male voice choir is changing its name and distancing itself from its force after being told it went against equal opportunities policies.
Derbyshire Constabulary Male Voice Choir was asked to become a mixed-voice group in September last year.
But chairman Kevin Griffiths said it would be “difficult” to hire the 50 women needed to balance the sound.
Derbyshire Police chief constable Peter Goodman said the group was “incompatible” with force policies.
A male voice choir has a distinct sound. That’s the point. A mixed choir will lack that sound. There’s something evocative about those Welsh choirs – are they, too, to be determined non PC and expected to change? This really is going too far. Okay, it went too far a long time ago, but now we are entering the absurd.
It will now be known as the Derbyshire Community Male Voice Choir.
Probably best.
Mr Griffiths added that no women had asked to become members of the choir in its history.
That’s not the point, because reasons. You should be dragging them off the streets and pressing them into service because equality and diversity.
There are only 2 words that the Chief Cunstable should have taken note of: Male Voice.
He’s just another virtue signalling muppet
I was thinking of two completely different words.
Would there be an unusually high frequency of ‘f’s’ in the words you are thinking about?
Dear me! certainly not! I do believe that DocBud was referring to sex and travel. The ravel bit would consist of “Off” and the sex bit would be … >};o)
Someone also needs to bring the Chief up to speed. It’s no longer enough just to try and enforce the addition of women into the group; you have to have x% from BAME communities, y% from LGBT communities, a politically balanced ensemble which fairly reflects the political views of the community, perhaps 2-3 officers who must be in the process of actively transitioning thier sex, and not to mention a few uneducated scruffs from the local estates to balance the socio-economic mix of the population…
Bad Chief! You need to crib up on your equalities legislation mate…
Before my voice broke, I was in a school production of ‘Pirates of Penzance’. (Boys-only school).
All the trebles were the daughters, and all the basses were the police. The pirates were mainly tenors/altos.
Fancy having Policewoman Dick singing ‘with cat-like tread, upon our way we steal’….
etc etc etc…
Pah!
Surely the correct response in these days of gender fluidity is for half of the men to self identify as women. Problem solved.
This approach would also solve the problem of gender imbalance in the boardroom and probably a lot of other invented problems as well. 🙂
That thought did occur to me, but I resisted.
Problem solved.
Hoisting them with their own pantyhose! +1
From now on all string quartets must have a trombone, oboe and drum otherwise would be incompatible with with instrument diversity policies.
Fail! You’ve excluded percussion 🙂 Hell, why don’t we just have orchestras…
Funny, isn’t it that diversity really means inclusion of everyone in a group rather than appreciating the real diversity of specificity of a particular group.
Didn’t include triangles and xylophones.
Or comb and paper …
Power to them. With a Chief like that pernicously enforcing stupid rules without the actual application of even a slice of common sense, I wouldn’t want my male voice choir associated with Derbyshire Police either.
As to the small matter of Police force priorities in Derbyshire, I guess the county is probably still f**ked with leadership like that though…
Yet there is a black police officers association ,anyone wonder what would happen if you tried to set up a white heterosexual police officers association?
Peter Goodman would probably have no issues with a Black Male Voice Choir.
Because that’s inclusive. Do try to keep up.
No, as again you’ve taken something and twisted the idea for your agenda. The key word above is not ‘male’ but ‘police’. If it’s a Welsh community choir they can do what they want. If it’s public servant based then different rules apply.
The only person twisting anything here is you. Yet again, you sidestep the point being made. You are consistent, I’ll give you that.
You haven’t made a point.
Yes I have. You are being either deliberately obtuse or stupid. I can’t be bothered with your childish mind games anymore as I’ve just lost patience.
Yes, let’s celebrate the fact that our taxes are extorted so people can play identity politics all day, instead of what they are actually paid to do….
“Extorted” being the operative word.