Council blasted for publishing £51k job advert 'excluding white people' from applying
In a review of headlines over the past year comedian and presenter Leo Kearse highlighted the bizarre council ad.
Council blasted for job ad that 'excluded white people'
A council has been slammed for 'accidentally' putting up an advert 'excluding white people from applying for a job'.
Reviewing some of 'stories you may have missed' in the past 12 months comedian and GB News presenter Leo Kearse focused on a few examples including one from Glasgow City Council last year.
He said: "Glasgow Council put out an advert excluding white people from applying for a job. Bear in mind Scotland is 96 percent white, how is excluding almost every candidate going to help find the best candidate?"
Speaking on GB News Mr Kearse added that GCC apologised saying the advert was not meant to be "made public", to which the comedian said: "As if keeping racism secret is mean't to be ok."
The Scottish Daily Express reports shortly after GCC took down the advert, the council said it becoming public was an administrative error but the content was in line with their initiative, permitted under equality laws, to have a more diverse teaching staff.
The £51,000 a year job description said: "Education Services seeks to appoint 2 highly motivated, experienced and dynamic individuals with an excellent track record in Primary/Secondary/ASL teaching and who identify as Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic."
Speaking about the advert posting in May last year, Mr Kearse, who regularly appears on GB News said: "What's racist today? Today the Scottish government is racist, excluding white people from applying for jobs (in a country that's 96% white)"
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A spokesperson for GCC said at the time: "Glasgow’s school population is very diverse and it is important that we make sure that our workforce reflects this."
During his round-up the Mr Kearse also highlighted an inquiry that found the RAF was discriminating against white male applicants in a bid to boost diversity.
Speaking during a monologue on GB News Mr Kearse said the drive for diversity "only went in one direction" but he added that the strategy was "bad for diversity hires too", adding "it places a question mark over their true ability".