[originalbuckeye]

The BBC will now require that new applicants disclose their 'family income and upbringing' before they will be considered for a job with the BBC. How long before this is required, for Government jobs, in this country? I bet Obama/Hillary!/Bernie are chomping at the bit to institute this policy! I remember when I applied to go to a state university after high school. They wanted to know family income before I would be considered for financial aid. My dad said 'no, it is no one else's business....we will pay for your education ourselves'. Used to be important in this once great country.

[originalbuckeye]

Just FYI: in Britain, the term ‘public school’, actually means a private school. If a male is referred to as a ‘public school boy’, he is being singled out as privileged.

[Daffynition]

Simple. It's *Brazil* - 2016

[Da Coyote]

Wow.

The BBC has gone from a full stall to a spin.

Oh well, at least the diction is OK.

For now, that is.

[2banana]

Just like American colleges...

[Mr. Mojo]

The BBC has faced pressure from ministers...to increase the numbers of staff from underrepresented backgrounds

Iow, Pakis.

[Lexington Green]

BBC - where everyone is a token

[Tzimisce]

Karl Marx HATED the middle class.
He wanted them DESTROYED.

And he told his followers to take over the media.

This is working exactly as it’s supposed too.

And you middle class Marxists just love it. :)

[Chode]

Ungland, feh...

[Sivad]

I wonder if there is some Britain-American bedwetting
liberal commission which meets to decide and coordinate
the next international social and economic crisis.

How is it that the liberals in both countries get their
panties in a twist at the same time over the same dumbassed
issues?

[W.]

I freely dispense my spent beer upon their, and all diversity.

Positions must be filled by people qualified for that particular job.

This isn't a military boot camp barracks, where it's pick one and order him to some job.

You don't drop a dishwasher in an Air Traffic Controller's operating chair and tell him to get to work...

[VanShuyten]

I’m sure this will improve PBS programming, and they will start attracting a different, larger audience. It might even add a little “Jerry Springer” to their telethons, which would be an improvement.

[SkyPilot]

"Comrade! There was living space for thirteen families! In this one house!"

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I’m surprised supervision isn’t walking down the rows of cubicles firing people at random and filling their jobs with turban-wearers. Oh, that’s next year...

[Petrosius]

BBC staff will be asked to disclose details of their family income and upbringing, as part of new plans to ensure that the corporation is not dominated by discriminate against the middle classes.

[DiogenesLamp]

BBC asks staff to disclose details of family income, to address middle class bias

Reminds me of this bloody movie they made about being opposed to global warming.

Nazis gotta Nazi.

[fone]

>>> new employees will be asked to answer a range of questions about their socio-economic background, including whether they were entitled to free school meals as a child<<<<

I must say I grew up in a "lower socioeconomic" neighborhood in Cleveland. No free lunches! Pack a PB & J or hustle home for lunch (with parents permission). Moved from there in 1969 to the 'burbs. Still, there were only "reduced price" lunches (NOT free, you had to pay something), but most kids that might have qualified were too embarrassed to do that. PB & J all the way...

Back at ya Buckeye =^)

[Unam Sanctam]

Sounds discriminatory. What about ideological diversity?