British Racism at work again—Soldier rejected as police trainee because he was white

A hero soldier who served in Iraq and Bosnia has been rejected by his local police force because he is a white male. Mark Gough, 25, had wanted to be a cop since his teens but joined the Army for “life experience” first. He served six years with the 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery and his unit was among the first into Iraq in the 2003 toppling of Saddam. The dad of one did six months in Basra before leaving the Army and applying to the police.

He passed a preliminary course with flying colours and was described by some serving officers as a “perfect candidate”. But Mark’s application to the Gloucestershire force was turned down. And his shock turned to anger when he learned he was one of 109 white male hopefuls rejected, while minority groups and women had sailed through.

Every black, Asian and female applicant was invited to interview, but two-thirds of the white males were rejected.

Mark, who lives with wife Amanda, 29, in Quedgely, said: “I’m surprised I’ve been judged on the fact I’m a white male. “I can only assume I was one of the 109 because we aren’t women or part of a minority group.” The force had 301 applications for 192 vacancies. All 109 rejected were white males, leaving 63 to go through, along with all 129 female and ethnic minority applicants.

Gloucestershire Police said it was its duty to create a force representative of local minorities, although just 2.8 per cent of the county’s population is from an ethnic minority. Assistant Chief Constable Michael Matthews said: “This positive action will undoubtedly mean disappointment for others.”

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006060073,00.html

Posted by jonjayray on Monday, February 13, 2006 at 12:05 AM in Marxism & Culture War
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Posted by Al Ross on February 13, 2006, 03:57 AM | #

“This positive action will undoubtedly mean disappointment for others”.

Indeed it will. Those others include hard-pressed taxpayers who have the right to expect the best law enforcement that their punitive tax burden can buy. On the one hand UK citizens are funding disproportionate minority welfare-dependency, whilst on the other they are witnessing the wilful reduction in personnel standards within the police service because of a contrived minority presence. What chance then of the sort of racial-profiling necessary to combat certain Black-dominated criminal activities?

Posted by anonymous on February 13, 2006, 08:17 AM | #

If the country is already being invaded why join the Army in the first place? To fight an unjust and illegal war and make enemies for free? Seems pretty dumb.

Posted by John S Bolton on February 13, 2006, 08:40 AM | #

A government that punishes loyalty with legal disabilities on a racial basis, while rewarding enemies with racial patronage; is taking a big chance of turning the people violently against it. It is that way to such extent, that one can infer that the cultivation of such enmities must be the purpose behind such policies. After all, isn’t intercommunal and interracial conflict their best hope for gaining emergency powers, and the dictatorship itself?

Posted by karlmagnus on February 13, 2006, 03:38 PM | #

I have to say I have a much stronger reaction against this nonsense in Gloucestershire than I do in London or Liverpool. You expect immigrants, ethnic tension and tough policing in big cities, but people live in Gloucestershire to avoid that rubbish and live as closely as possible the life of their ancestors. People need SOME refuge from thas abominations of modern life.

Posted by Guessedworker on February 13, 2006, 05:30 PM | #

To put the rabid anti-white racism - aka multiculturalism - of Gloucester’s Pee-Cee PC’s into perspective, here are some perspectives of the surroudings of Gloucester, itself not the most “vibrant” of places.

In a wide sweep from Stroud in the south, through scores of golden sandstone villages such as Naunton, east of Gloucester, and Chipping Camden, out to the north-east, runs the glorious countryside of the Cotswolds. There’s no obvious high demand for sympathetic minority policing here.

To the north is the town of Tewkesbury, not greatly changed today from yesterday. But maybe the population are Muslim now, who knows?

To the east is the ancient Forest of Dean and The Wye Valley, where the immigrants are all finned.

As with the Dorset Fire Service brouhaha last autumn, this affair only serves to demonstrate the keeness of anti-white racists - aka multiculturalists - for exercising their prejudices regardless of the real circumstance. Truly, they are scum.

Posted by Voice on February 13, 2006, 06:32 PM | #

I think one of the saddest moments I have last summer back at my wife’s parents in Newcastle wasn’t the sub-saharan immigrants stalking the local estate like hyenas on the prowl(although it made me physically sick) ,but was going to sacred ground in Blanchland, Northumberland and seeing an obviously african immigrant walking along a gentle trail to her council house provided by the idiots at the local gov’t.

http://www.northumberland.gov.uk/VG/blanchland.htm

What a beautiful setting I was enjoying with my family having a picnic along the beautiful stream(btw, pictured in the link) whilst this alien being wanders through taking away my living space that our ancestors carved out for us.

I wish there was an appropriate name for this disease that has afficted our people to allow this to happen....

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