Jul 2009 09

The tale of the discriminating Chairman of the Discrimination Committee3

Trevor Phillips, the Chairman of the government’s Equality and Human Rights Commission, was yesterday in the dock charged with discrimination by a member of his own staff.  Irish-born Brid Johal (an aide to the aide of Phillips) accused the Chairman of over-looking her for promotion as a result of her going on maternity leave.

This does not look good for the Commission, which has, over the last year, undergone a succession of internal disputes and allegations of financial irregularities. Indeed, since this time last year the Commission has lost 34 members of permanent staff, including the CEO and three members of the Board. Lord Ousley, who was Mr. Phillips' predecessor at the Commission for Racial Equality, is on record stating that the EHRC is not ‘performing its role effectively’.

Given that the taxpayer forks up over £70m a year to run the body, and that we pay Mr. Phillips £110,000 a year for a three-and-a-half-day week, perhaps it’s high time that this failing super-quango received its much deserved quietus.

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  • http://profile.typepad.com/illuminatus Perry de Havilland

    This is thigh slappingly great stuff :-) Let the serpent eat its own tail and choke to death.

  • gildedtumbril

    One wonders whether this £70 million p.a. bunch of quangoloids employs any white blue-eyed devils. I doubt it.It should be consigned to the cesspit of marxist history as quickly as possible.

  • P Stimsin

    Why don’t we just get rid of Trevor Phillips?
    I have the view that Equality and Human rights, at least in respect of the white indigenous Englshman, is a non event. So far as I can see, he has contrbuted little or nothing towards improving the E & H rights for the vast majority of English men and women. He, thanks to this useless Government has, in common with many other quango members, without doubt improved his own position and rights.
    I hope that when the new Government is elected, this commission is one of the first to be disbandad.