1./ Is it a total coincidence the landlord of "the worst council houses in Britain" is a Stonewall Diversity Champion? I don't think so. Croydon Council spent time & money obsessing about a bizarrely woke outside lobby group's approval instead of on local people's urgent needs.
https://twitter.com/itvnews/status/1373964055443087363
2./ The business guru Sir John Harvey-Jones said there was a surefire sign a company is in trouble: when its HQ gets a flagpole outside. In other words concentrate ruthlessly on the business not the baubles. Croydon was distracted by Stonewall's baubles.👇news.croydon.gov.uk/croydon-counci…
3./ In 2018 it boasted it had climbed 95 places in the Stonewall index. Poor things, they'd spent thousands of quid, jumped through hoops and weren't even in the top 100 yet. Poignantly, the LGBT Staff Network pointed out, "our overall score was only 11 points away".👇 
4./ They funded Pride, a Queer film festival, LGBT History month, and flew the rainbow flag on (yep) a flagpole but Stonewall wanted more. In 2019 came more bad news. They were a top Council employer but had still failed to get in the top Stonewall 100.😭👇yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/17398993.…
5./ I wonder if residents living in those mouldy flats shared the Council's disappointment? Croydon's obsession with Stonewall didn't CAUSE its housing failures but it reflected its careless and incompetent leadership. Last year Croydon was declared bankrupt. 👇
6./ In a damning report auditors said, "the council’s parlous financial situation dating back to 2017/2018 had been effectively ignored." Yet as debts soared the Council continued to lavish money and management time and effort on Stonewall. Talk about displacement activity.
7./ As the @instituteforgov points out Croydon "had one of the lowest levels of usable reserves as a percentage of annual spending of any council, and had been warned by its auditors for two years running that its reserves were too low." 👇instituteforgovernment.org.uk/blog/croydon-c…
8./ As debts spiralled to unsustainable levels (£1.5Bn by the time the pandemic hit) no one dared to suggest trimming LGBT History Month, Pride or rainbow flags a-fluttering. Nothing was more important than pathetically crawling up Stonewall's ladder of virtue-signalling.
9./ What the poor fools didn't realise is that you can never really win the Stonewall game. Every year the acronym LGBTQ+ grows and new ways are invented to placate a niche in the gender identity menagerie. In 2019 the new thing was Asexual Awareness Week👇stonewall.org.uk/about-us/news/…
10./ But by 2021 if Croydon wasn't bankrupt it could now be winning Stonewall points for promoting Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week. Then again perhaps nothing promotes aromanticism better than forcing locals to sleep in freezing and damp bedrooms.👇
https://twitter.com/stonewalluk/status/1363843446616719363
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