@@williamhill7446 Funny you should mention that because there is a little tiff going on in Ukraine right now. Apparently the USA wants us to invade Russia for them.
I’m 66, 12yr service/USAF….and feel like I don’t fit in with current society. We are drowning in Political Correctness….and in doing so, CENSORING the Truth/Reality.
Absolutely true. What makes it even worse is, all this does is to dumb down the military, I'm 65 this year and feel that my military service was a complete waste of time and effort.
Which is the point of PC. Speech coding. All part of the intentional ideological subversion of Western values, traditions and culture by the 'globalists'. Bolshevism = Communism = Internationalism = Globalism. Just as Cultural Marxism = Post Modernist Thinking = Progressivism. Deceitful re-branding to appear non-threatening and appealing.
@@Biggles2498 why have grown adults who have been there and done it, become so scared of a bunch of purple haired snotty nosed smelly punks. That only know something if they Google it.? Have we really become that piss poor.?
@@keithgoodrick-meech3921 Because Woke Society and our clueless University Sheep are our future Leaders. That's what worries me including Boys been made to wear dresses at some Schools as they are seen as Guinea Pigs for a Sexless or Genderless Society,
My mate is a fireman, he told me years ago that the brigade were trying to get the numbers of women & ethnics up. He said that to join the fire service you had to go through fitness, strength and chest expansion tests. To try to meet their targets, the powers that be abandoned much of the testing. they now have people who can't carry casualties down a ladder or are not strong enough to pull an injured colleague out of a burning building or get the ladder off the top of a fire engine. The wokeness in the west is killing people.
It's the same with the police and the ambulance people. Women cops need men to get a suspect under control. Women paramedics need men to carry the sick to the ambulance. And, in some situations, people are loosing their lives. But the insane society we live in today doesn't give a rat's ass. Our species became mentally insane and things are only getting worse.
If you take on people because of their colour rather that their quality you are a RACIST !!! This division is organised and funded by the same tribe, just listen to Barbara Lerner Specter, George Sorros and IsraAid.
I'm ex-Army, whatever happened to the speech my phase 1 platoon sergeant gave us: 'I don't care what colour your skin is, we all wear the same green and we all bleed the same red, and many of you will bleed. Once you bleed or the man next to you is bleeding, you won't care about skin other than stopping it leak'. He used stronger language than that, but UA-cam would hide the comment if I included it. Two days before my passing out of phase 2 I was called into the N.C.Os office, I was told by the Plt Sgt, 4 Corporals and 1 Lance Jack that they wanted to give me the best recruit award. They were overruled by the C.O. (who hadn't spent a single day with my platoon during training) who wanted a minority recruit to get the award 'to encourage inclusion'. So the platoon staff had a few beers with me (they took me to a club called Tall Trees near I.T.C. Catterick) because they said I was robbed. The weird thing is that had they not told me, I would never have known. This was mid (maybe June?) 2000 so this has been going on a long time. It's simply more visible now. That means they're getting more comfortable with this agenda but I don't think they're finished yet. If war starts with China or Russia I won't fight for this country, I won't fight against it because I love my country, the land and its native people, but I won't fight for the new additions and I certainly won't fight for a system that appears to hate me. It's ironic that the military talk about service men moving towards the far right, it seems to me like they are being pushed, vigorously.
It's very disappointing and totally disheartening to hear of these issues in the RAF Tim. I served in the RAF and it is so heartbreaking to hear of this "Wokeism" invading the RAF. It'll destroy it and the Royal Navy and Army as well. The forces will become so utterly unattractive to all our ambitious clever good young people, if not already, to any one of them who wanted a career in our military. Wanting to be a member of a highly professional, skilled team in the understanding and practice of how to wage war when needed and all the other humanitarian tasks in dangerous environments the forces are involved. Not to feel discluded because of who they are and how they look and what sex they are, but should be considered whatever and get in, because; they are the best person for the career, not because they will "fill a quota" for an alterior desire by someone at the top, to achieve something else? which has nothing to do with maintaining a military force but, is a social identity politics and wokeism "engineering project" and for what..? It's nothing to do with the military profession and being in this nations armed forces. I think the rot started some time ago and for what reason..? certainly nothing to do with maintaining a first class military, with the best people able to fight wars, whatever colour or creed, male or female!! Recruiting the best people for the job, protecting this nation and other nations, is the only reason and purpose of fighting forces, they aren't a social science project to be fucked around by stupid individuals trying to turn the military into something else. Our nations security isn't a debate in a; woke and politically correct way in the every day lives of the nation in a university or college debating club! The RAF Commanders seem to have made it their mission to be a social engineering project and for what...? Wokeism, it's a disease to our forces to function as forces! The RAF Regiment, a ground fighting Corps raised by Royal Warrant, with a high Espirit De Corps instilled in it's Gunners and officers & NCO's and front line units. The RAF Police are still a Police force for the RAF. Haven't the Americans assessed the British forces now as being, "second division", non effective, being so small, not "tier 1" Forces. Very sad.
Dear Paul, I can understand your concerns, but could this 'agenda' be a life saver in the long run? For countless generations the various arms of the UK's military have done their absolute utmost to develop the forces to be among the most effective life takers on the planet. As a result, politicians of every party have had little to no hesitation in putting these highly talented individuals at risk in conflicts where we had no business being involved. Now, if government ministers know for certain that our military will get their arses handed to them, they might be less inclined to behave as if we still have an empire to maintain. Frank.
@@karlv2876 Dear Karl, On the other hand, if politicians are under no illusions about how inadequate our Armed Forces have become, perhaps they'll be a little less eager to throw them into conflicts in which the UK has no stake. Alternatively, knowing that the human element of the military is entirely deficient might be a spur to develop better robots to do the dirty work. Ideally, the UK's entire defence infrastructure will soon be a collection of droids and drones directed by AI. Frank.
It is Karma. Your time is done, old man. It is unfortunate that you are witnessing the fall of your country in this lifetime, usually civilizations take time to crumble after overstretching, raiding and committing crimes on a mass scale. But yes.. unfortunate but not undeserved. The sun has set on the Empire, it seems. And it is not satisfied with just setting either, it seems to want to drag your empire underneath with the way your politicians are behaving.
Had a friend in the RAF for 30 years he left last year, he had a colleague who was a POC and a good looking chap, Every time there was a corporate video or recruitement drive they used to send for him. My friend said his mate was in the air force for years and said it got on his nerves for being used for the colour of his skin and not his skills.
Yep, I was in the Army and a colleague was from Fiji but of Indian heritage. He was always pulled aside for photos and TV stuff and hated being the "token" POC .
Positive discrimination in the police was highlighted 20 years ago, positive action they said, no it was discrimination. Ah well, here we go. You are the best mate x
A rare honour to hear someone speaking their truth, Tim, and THE truth for that matter - ex RAF. I flew the Harrier GR3 in the 80s and thankfully exited young enough to begin a whole new life journey back in my country of origin, South Africa. Your mission to help others deal with loneliness is a hugely noble one
Hi Tim, ex RAF myself, this is absolutely shocking what is going on here. Have you seen the latest recruitment ad for the RAF ? It says it's open to anyone yet the advert comprises of women and persons of colour, don't recall seeing any men or males of any kind in the ad. Keep your chin up , appreciate your service and that you do now.
So grateful for you on putting this entire section on the RAF out. Trying to get in myself and just failed OASC (really hoping not for any of these horrendous realities) The people responsible should absolutely be relieved of duty as they don't embody RISE. Be well, be healthy and thank you again.
@@DRUMNERD, I was talking to an RAF engineering officer of several decades’ experience the other day. From everything they told me, you were refused because you’re white, straight and male.
@@Pete-tq6in Damn, that really is one horrid outcome should it be proven correct. I can't see my avenues now as the refusal says things that are about how I performed, but we can't know if that was hot air from the officer and using it to hide behind ''the agenda'' Sad times eh.
Thanks for the video Tim, very honest and open video. Intelligent people can feel when the organisation they are in has lost its way and the RAF definitely falls into this category. I left in 2003 having been a aircraft technician and even then they were more interested in getting their initial training educationally certified than fit for purpose, thus the attitude adjustment and filtering of people not suited to the military ethos was stepped over and this then had happen later down the line. Nineteen years later and this management mentality of meeting targets and not capability has become fully developed and integrated.
well done tim for standing up for the white male, well actually all genders and races. when your in the raf you should be perceived as being there because you were one of the best, and not because your race or gender met a quota and your abilities were down the list!!
Good to see you back on air again. Glad you're still tackling this subject head on. It's more important than ever these days to speak out against injustice.
I wouldn't mind injustice if it made the RAF more combat worthy, but it doesn't. It has precisely the opposite effect, but our supposedly highly intelligent top brass cant see that.
With you on the loneliness I recently went from married with family to divorced and living on my own , it's not fun but I lift 3 to 4 times a week and keep all my empty bottles by the bin so I can see what I drink each month ! Just one step at a time gets you there in the end 💪
I have to take them out every few days, not week, let alone a month. Otherwise my kitchen would literally be a glass palace. And I'm married! Great to hear you're moving in a positive direction.
A few years ago I heard an RAFsergeant saying to a bunch of Air Cadets that the RAFs primary role was delivering humanitarian aid,I thought it was the defence of the realm!.
Saying that defence of the realm is the primary role probably wouldn't impress most kids today but telling them they could be "super heroes" by rescuing the great unwashed around the world might. That's what all the TV ads show isn't it? Nothing exciting like firing weapons, making things go bang or driving a tank over a muddy field just basically being aid workers in MTP.
@user-vq1sk1bo1s Sounds like all these exclusive sports the military take part in like international skiing competitions. Officers only need apply. I knew a family military through and through. The daughter never seemed to be actually doing anything military she never got her boots dirty as such just seemed to permanently represent the army around the world either skiing or horse riding. Nice work if you can get it. All her photos of her were either in St Moritz or getting a horse riding trophy from some chinless minor royal at Hickstead or Burghley. No shots of her in Afghan or Iraq or in some muddy field during training so I wouldn't trust her with a compass let alone a SA80A3.
Years ago when I applied for pilot training in the services, I was sent to Biggin Hill for 3 days of very difficult aptitude tests . There were about 400 of us and at the end in an assembly hall they read out 4 names ( I was one of them) and the rest were told to go home. We then went for further interviews and then home. The CO stated that only about 1 in 10,000 were capable of passing the aptitude tests . I hope that they havent lowered their standards just to get ethnic minority people in as pilots
First Class Tim.......nail.......head! Thank god for intelligent and articulate, common sense people like you! We really are becoming too woke to fight! Thanks again and go steady bruv.
My 14 year old son is air cadet and they recently promoted five cadets to corporal, bizarrely they promoted four girls and one not very indigenous looking boy...purely coincidental of course.
Tim You talk sense and the fact you lost your job for telling the truth is mental but a reflection of the world we live in. Hope you fully recover with the shoulder and keep pushing those weights, so easy to slip and lose focus on what's good for you. Anyway take my hat off to you mate, ex RAF myself (Tonka groundcrew not Aircrew) all the best.
It wasn't just the racist element of the Defence Select Committee, it was all the other questions CAS was asked. He didn't give a direct answer to any questions that were posed. For example it took 5 attempts by Mr Francois to illicit when Wedgetail would enter operational service. Shocking performance for the top man of the RAF!
I'm former 16 years RN and ended up commissioned. I left in 2013. I have recently watched a couple of episodes of the programme about the deployment of HMS Queen Elizabeth. It is not the RN I served in. Unfit people bleating about mental health and gender issues. Raising the LGBTXYZ flag on the mainmast FFS!! How would this bunch of throbbers do in a war? Why not just employ hard working blokes at sea? It has worked for the past thousand years.
Mate, im ex RAF ground grew, what a fookin disaster and so many lies by the Sirs. I worked with the Lightnings and 80% readiness is bollocks for the good old days. So the selection process, lies lies lies but what do you expect from idiots. Love your channel mate.
Brilliant video Tim. Well done. Both barrells. Awesome. Spot on. Take care of yourself. Look forward to your videos. They sound very interesting. Say it as it is. Keep doing what you do.
The yanks did this years ago Kara Hultgreen was the first result, she was let down by a lowering of the standards to get the female pilot box ticked. Tragically cost her life because truthfully she should not have made it through the training, a blind eye was turned on many an occasion when a she flew a sub standard training flight.
Just re watched Ward Carroll’s analysis of the Kara Hultgreen incident and was about to mention it but you beat me to it. So sad to see how society is seemingly spinning out of control and my own service with it. I suppose the face blind / seat pan handle discussion is irrelevant as there is no handle to pull! We’re not even supposed to sing Delilah at a Welsh rugby match anymore ffs! 🤬
Goes back a good few years but there are suggestions that Lt Kara Hultgreen was pushed through to become the USN’s first female combat pilot and deck qualified on F14, when she wasn’t actually good enough.
Have to say as an x squaddie and now psychiatric nurse (now aged 50) that the 2 worst places I have ever known for training (expensive) and not retaining staff are the forces and the NHS. It beggars belief The incompetent imbeciles that get promoted while around them the really decent guys are leaving. It's almost like living in a altered state of reality! In the Army the same old chestnut got rolled out, we'll put you on your cadre course son! The people at the very top of these organisations haven't a clue but then resort to knee jerk reactions to try and encourage a quota of recruits from ethnic backgrounds instead of the best person for the job and more imaginative ways at retention after paying out £38,100 per trainee! Get a grip!
I despair that Wigston and co think the RAF should be a sample of the population, the only criteria should be ability. The can be all black or white or male or female the only criteria should be ability to do the job.
Well done sir for bringing this out in the open.The People who are responsible for all this ridiculous stupidity need to do some rethinking,.Talking,listening,debating,there seams to come across a groundswell of anger and frustration,of so many well worn things that have stood the test of time are being stupidity’s and held up to ridicule by people who have not the faintest idea of what they are talking about. There also signs that folk are beginning to make a stand and be heard. 😊
Hats off to you Tim… I’m ex-RAF FJ and QFI… I actually trained the first female pilot in the RAF in the late 80s and have to report that from that point there has been absolutely no discrimination against women doing the job, there has also been a steady flow of female pilots into the service. I too have flown/worked with many ethnic minority colleagues… what is going on is all PC bullshit and totally wrong and illegal. I can’t imagine how I would have felt in 1980 if I’d applied for pilot training in the RAF then been denied due to BAME/gender quotas… despicable and just wrong… dreams being destroyed and service operational capability must be affected… fly safe 👍🏻
Heartbreaking. My son is in the middle of this at the moment. He out performs EVERYONE around him. When he was a cadet, it was the same. He gave up his weekends to help charities through the RAF Cadets. Because he's Indigenous British and a male, he's been over looked EVERY single time. He's looking at emigrating and joining a military there. If the RAF want women, non indigenous Brits and trans people rather the best candidates. So be it. Unlike Anerica, they don't have the size to absorb their ridiculousness and poor performances and if they feel comfortable doing it, so be it.
Excellent work sir. Keep up the good fight. Great to know people like you still exist and care enough to fight for proper equality (equality of opportunity versus equality of outcome).
Utterly disgraceful that their number 1 priority was positive discrimination towards candidates that were less skilled by meritorious achievement, and not getting the very best for the defence of the realm.
As an Ex-RAF serviceman I believe in Equality- However being competent and fit for role are more important than dropping a more competent candidate because the next one is a person of colour. We need more recruits that are committed and competent not just a lottery driven by politicians and REMF’s
I encountered this in the Rail industry. I actually have a rejection letter that told me I was rejected because I did not reflect the community in which they served. They placed diversity over a candidate with 10 years experience. When I ride on a train or fly in a plane, I don't care what ethnicity, gender or sexuality my driver or pilot is, I care that they are the best & most qualified person for the job.
I think the best times of being a fighter pilot are gone, sadly (and even general aviation has been changing too). Tim, how would the RAF look if you were The Boss and had free range on it's inventory, hours of flying etc.
@@johnnunn8688 totally agree, just more of a won the lottery, what would you do question as I agree that the aircraft are becoming so expensive that it must be impacting budgets etc.
My son applied to RAF 5years ago, he past every exam including fitness with top grades, could have had any officers job, they advised go for intelligence, had interview. Never heard a word no explanation nothing He was prepared to serve his country, never heard a Word. Disgraceful.
Spent 27 years in the RAF and as Phantom, Tornado and C130J ground crew. Left 10 years ago and so glad I did as since 2000 it all started going to rat shit. Now it's a box ticking joke with the usual disconnected CAS. Glad to see you are on the mend mate.
Sorry to hear of your personal struggles and good to see you’re tackling them head on 👍 Diversity is an interesting issue and I’m genuinely surprised that the top ranks of the RAF don’t seem to understand what they did wrong. Set a standard required to do the job and anyone who meets the standard should get through plain and simple. (Blind selection I think you called it?) Discrimination isn’t ever an answer to any problem.
When i was younger if i didnt have a criminal record i would have proudly joined the forces. Almost 3 decades later and im so glad i never. Look at what we would be fighting for!
I have to wonder how ALL of the services would react if Conscription is brought back and people would rather sit jail than serve in ANY of the services? Why should we defend a country that doesn't want us to exist?
Ex RAF pilots were getting £10,000 a month tax free in Saudi on Typhoons two years ago. Add to that bonuses as well. It's a no brainer. Do four years and buy a house cash.
Am so glad people are speaking out about all this discrimination going on especially towards white males, your a breath of fresh air to hear someone speaking sense these days is rare
I appreciate you for sharing your experiences here, very interesting to hear from your perspective giving us awareness of whats going on behind the scenes!!
Hi Tim. I’m glad you’re in a better place than a while ago. I was concerned when I saw you here just after your car crash as you were increasingly looking like the Wild Man of Borneo and it was clear that you were struggling. I didn’t offer support at that point because I wasn’t sure how it would be received. It’s a bit forthright to tell a chap he’s losing it and about to tip over the edge when you don’t know the full picture but I think lots of people who watch your channel do feel support for you. Please continue to fight for the RAF to try and make it better.
Our HR department told me this week that my sex was assigned to me. No consideration to how I may feel about learning this news at age 53. I thought my sex was observed and then recorded how wrong was I, hoping to wake up from this fever dream soon.
Good to hear about reducing drinking but don’t immediately start ‘binge lifting!’ Keep up the good work and hope successes keep coming your way. World is definitely a better place with you in it!
I’m a veteran that now trains soldiers on certain technical courses. We were showing the new learning disability advocate around on her first day, she pointed at the steps alongside some of the armoured vehicles and asked where the ramps were, ‘ramps?’ I asked blankly, ‘yes, for the students in wheelchairs’ she replied......I knew my relationship with this woman was going to go downhill from this moment.
Thanks for the heads up about the kids tim. I'll watch what i write to you and others in comments. Tim has a ship load of integrity. Pity he wasn't running our air service. Congratulations on your sobriety keep it up you deserve it.
My flight sim pc is on its way. I am so excited and happy to join this community soon! Tim you have done so much and I couldn’t thank you enough. As a white male hoping to join the force in a couple years what your doing is incredible. Can’t thank you enough. I will be doing quite a bit of learning in MFS2020 before I join this dcs community as I am gonna be new to flight sims so I’m gonna learn to walk before I learn to run. But hopefully soon I can join this wonderful community
Well said Tim. MERIT. That should be the guiding light. Swearing? Does not bother me. Shows your passion. Sorry to hear about the accident and loss of job.
Some main stream journalists/politicians ought to be taking an interest in these exposes - Piers Morgan, Nigel Farage etc. I suggest that posters on this site who agree with you should email those two suggesting precisely that.
No wonder the RAF cannot get enough fast jet pilots; a) who in their right mind would want to join that outfit? b) existing pilots probably want to get out asap.
Let's increase the number of inadequate persons selected as engineers and aircrew in the RAF. A bit like the transgender Finnish skater, selected via box-ticking instead of ability. WHAT. COULD. POSSIBLY. GO. WRONG ?
Tim, I have said before and I say it again that I stand shoulder to shoulder with you. What I didn’t say is that I am not RAF but I am a police officer and I am sick and tired of targets and ridiculous diversity being placed above the delivery of service and safety to those that I have sworn my dedicated service to. I feel like a coward for not saying aloud all the things that I am happy to agree with you saying here. The job has lost its way for so long now that I am afraid to speak up for fear of losing my job. The targets that the government set of twenty thousand extra officers is being filled with quite frankly incompetent officers and they are literally taking everyone of ethnicity to meet these targets who shouldn’t, and wouldn’t, have passed the assessments previously. It is insulting to me and my colleagues who have had to prove ourselves under threat of being sacked is we mess up but now these new recruits who are literally just offered the role of Constable because they tick a box for ridiculous government statistics. I absolutely feel insulted but am absolutely without voice because I am a white British officer. I know that any competent officer of a minority would be offended to hear that my voice was silenced because of my ethnicity because they too are competent and are completely my fellow officer. So how can it be that the government and senior officers are so bloody frightened to stand up and say ‘if you are not good enough, you ARE not good enough regardless of colour, sexual orientation, religious beliefs’ etc etc. I swore to protect the public and will give my life if necessary to honour that attestation. I can say with my hand on my heart that the last two years have seen an utterly disgraceful amount of officers sworn into service based purely to satisfy minority figures who have neither the intention, capability or desire to serve the (now) king. My vocabulary fails me Tim as I am not as well spoken or eloquent as you. But I absolutely want you to know that I STILL STAND SHOULDER TO SHOULDER with you and always will. I wish I could be there to support you through in person with what you are going through mate but you are not alone. We, your loyal supporters ARE here to listen. Just know we agree, what you say is listened to, we appreciate every truth you say and we will be here awaiting your next video. My sincerest regards. Roger Henderson.
This is the reason I left after 36-years Service. I felt I was in the worst rank of WO and had no speaking part any longer. I miss the Regiment I joined not the one I left.
I also still suffer from being 59, am half crippled and half stupid. Two things there is no such word as CAN'T there is no T in CAN. Life is a series of peaks and troughs, and if tomorrow is like today and you don't like it, go out or pick up the phone and make someone laugh or smile. Nobody is really alone, pick up the phone........its good to talk. Keep your faith with your kind heart and honesty.
Pure common sense spoken with clarity and integrity. There does seem to be an ‘over correction’ that exists for recruitment stats in a lot of professions (not just the military), ability to perform and succeed in said profession should take precedence…regardless of gender etc…. On men’s mental health, I think as men we are a stubborn bunch and will very reluctantly talk about how we feel and cope. I look forward to you sharing any advice you have to help with this….we all need a little help every now and then. Good drills.
As somebody who spent over 20 years in the RAF, I came to the conclusion that RISE was more of a shopping list. 'We are looking for these qualities because we sorely lack them'... they were still sorely lacking them when I left last year.
Hi, I'm so glad you called these dishonest people that WORK FOR US out. I'm truly disgusted by what's happening, how can you decide on applicants for jobs at the tip of the spear any other way than by aptitude, suitability and rank? Why do we not learn from previous mistakes paid for in blood? Anyway if you need to talk anytime fella I've big ears, plenty of time and am insomniac. Chin up fella 😉
Integrity left that house during the 1980’s! 35 years service and now I am embarrassed to admit belonging to these clowns! This started way back when I was a basics instructor and they started making excuses for females lack of performance! Lower weights, different kit, excuses on excuses! The reason there aren’t black Red Arrows pilots! ????
This same process occurred in South Africa in the national airline and airforce. Net result is that the airline folded and is in business rescue and only Bee pilots are being employed without the proper training or accreditation. I shudder to think what if any maintenance is taking place and waiting for an SAA airliner to drop out of the skies. The airfoce has 25 Saab Gripen jets which are inactive as there are no AA pilots trained or qualified to fly them. All potential quota pilots were failed by Saab Sweden and a training facility in Australia as being unsuitable or untrainable to fly sophisticated weaponry.
I work with Diageo and there the exact same men worked in the industry for years can’t get promoted but female or minority comes from some other line of work no experience and get that job it’s a disgrace
Given the history of the importance of the RAF, and the fact we in the western world are closer to global war than in the past 80 years, one would truly think the ONLY preference in selecting recruits would be on merit. Goering would have been pleased.
As a white man myself, society today is offering nothing to me. God help us if someone wants to kick off with us properly.
starts, or stops prentending it ain't kicking off, all a long.
Offers you nothing, blames you for everything.
As a white man also, I loathe this Western regime and everything it represents.
totally agree can hardly even see a white actor on tv ads and programmes these days , Enoch powell had the right idea
@@williamhill7446 Funny you should mention that because there is a little tiff going on in Ukraine right now. Apparently the USA wants us to invade Russia for them.
I’m 66, 12yr service/USAF….and feel like I don’t fit in with current society. We are drowning in Political Correctness….and in doing so, CENSORING the Truth/Reality.
Absolutely true. What makes it even worse is, all this does is to dumb down the military, I'm 65 this year and feel that my military service was a complete waste of time and effort.
Which is the point of PC. Speech coding. All part of the intentional ideological subversion of Western values, traditions and culture by the 'globalists'. Bolshevism = Communism = Internationalism = Globalism. Just as Cultural Marxism = Post Modernist Thinking = Progressivism. Deceitful re-branding to appear non-threatening and appealing.
Exactly Sir. I am 61 now and I am sick of Woke Society.
@@Biggles2498 why have grown adults who have been there and done it, become so scared of a bunch of purple haired snotty nosed smelly punks. That only know something if they Google it.? Have we really become that piss poor.?
@@keithgoodrick-meech3921 Because Woke Society and our clueless University Sheep are our future Leaders. That's what worries me including Boys been made to wear dresses at some Schools as they are seen as Guinea Pigs for a Sexless or Genderless Society,
My mate is a fireman, he told me years ago that the brigade were trying to get the numbers of women & ethnics up. He said that to join the fire service you had to go through fitness, strength and chest expansion tests. To try to meet their targets, the powers that be abandoned much of the testing. they now have people who can't carry casualties down a ladder or are not strong enough to pull an injured colleague out of a burning building or get the ladder off the top of a fire engine. The wokeness in the west is killing people.
Same as the police, used to be a requirement to be a certain height. But it rules out entire ethnicities. So couldnt have that.
has been for years since they lowered the standards for women
It's the same with the police and the ambulance people. Women cops need men to get a suspect under control. Women paramedics need men to carry the sick to the ambulance. And, in some situations, people are loosing their lives. But the insane society we live in today doesn't give a rat's ass. Our species became mentally insane and things are only getting worse.
two of my friends who are white english got told they wouldn't get the job with the Fire Brigade because they wasn't part of the quota they wanted.
Good man for telling the truth. Ex 22 year RAF veteran. Would I do it again? No chance. Not in today’s RAF!!!🤬🤬🤬
Shame you say that Gordon. It’s still a great organisation to work within; mostly down to the people who hold it together.
If you take on people because of their colour rather that their quality you are a RACIST !!! This division is organised and funded by the same tribe, just listen to Barbara Lerner Specter, George Sorros and IsraAid.
@@michaelshore2300 Could you please tell me who you directed you're comment to please, thank you ?
@@alisonhilll4317 you’re off your rocker.
@@bhughes1986 Research Barbara Lerner Specter, George Sorros and IsraAid you simp ,
I'm ex-Army, whatever happened to the speech my phase 1 platoon sergeant gave us: 'I don't care what colour your skin is, we all wear the same green and we all bleed the same red, and many of you will bleed. Once you bleed or the man next to you is bleeding, you won't care about skin other than stopping it leak'. He used stronger language than that, but UA-cam would hide the comment if I included it.
Two days before my passing out of phase 2 I was called into the N.C.Os office, I was told by the Plt Sgt, 4 Corporals and 1 Lance Jack that they wanted to give me the best recruit award. They were overruled by the C.O. (who hadn't spent a single day with my platoon during training) who wanted a minority recruit to get the award 'to encourage inclusion'. So the platoon staff had a few beers with me (they took me to a club called Tall Trees near I.T.C. Catterick) because they said I was robbed. The weird thing is that had they not told me, I would never have known. This was mid (maybe June?) 2000 so this has been going on a long time. It's simply more visible now. That means they're getting more comfortable with this agenda but I don't think they're finished yet. If war starts with China or Russia I won't fight for this country, I won't fight against it because I love my country, the land and its native people, but I won't fight for the new additions and I certainly won't fight for a system that appears to hate me. It's ironic that the military talk about service men moving towards the far right, it seems to me like they are being pushed, vigorously.
Eloquent and truthful, mate 🫡✌🏻
If they were doing it at that level 23 years ago in the Army before you know we'll have Pakistani's and Indian's running our government....
It's very disappointing and totally disheartening to hear of these issues in the RAF Tim. I served in the RAF and it is so heartbreaking to hear of this "Wokeism" invading the RAF. It'll destroy it and the Royal Navy and Army as well. The forces will become so utterly unattractive to all our ambitious clever good young people, if not already, to any one of them who wanted a career in our military. Wanting to be a member of a highly professional, skilled team in the understanding and practice of how to wage war when needed and all the other humanitarian tasks in dangerous environments the forces are involved. Not to feel discluded because of who they are and how they look and what sex they are, but should be considered whatever and get in, because; they are the best person for the career, not because they will "fill a quota" for an alterior desire by someone at the top, to achieve something else? which has nothing to do with maintaining a military force but, is a social identity politics and wokeism "engineering project" and for what..? It's nothing to do with the military profession and being in this nations armed forces. I think the rot started some time ago and for what reason..? certainly nothing to do with maintaining a first class military, with the best people able to fight wars, whatever colour or creed, male or female!! Recruiting the best people for the job, protecting this nation and other nations, is the only reason and purpose of fighting forces, they aren't a social science project to be fucked around by stupid individuals trying to turn the military into something else. Our nations security isn't a debate in a; woke and politically correct way in the every day lives of the nation in a university or college debating club! The RAF Commanders seem to have made it their mission to be a social engineering project and for what...? Wokeism, it's a disease to our forces to function as forces! The RAF Regiment, a ground fighting Corps raised by Royal Warrant, with a high Espirit De Corps instilled in it's Gunners and officers & NCO's and front line units. The RAF Police are still a Police force for the RAF. Haven't the Americans assessed the British forces now as being, "second division", non effective, being so small, not "tier 1" Forces. Very sad.
Yep, I did 24 years, most as aircrew and I wouldn't touch the RAF or other services with a barge-pole. Go woke, go broke.
Dear Paul,
I can understand your concerns, but could this 'agenda' be a life saver in the long run? For countless generations the various arms of the UK's military have done their absolute utmost to develop the forces to be among the most effective life takers on the planet. As a result, politicians of every party have had little to no hesitation in putting these highly talented individuals at risk in conflicts where we had no business being involved.
Now, if government ministers know for certain that our military will get their arses handed to them, they might be less inclined to behave as if we still have an empire to maintain.
Frank.
Paul it's a fact ,how we have reached this low point God knows but in future years will we look back and say what the hell were we thinking .......
@@karlv2876 Dear Karl,
On the other hand, if politicians are under no illusions about how inadequate our Armed Forces have become, perhaps they'll be a little less eager to throw them into conflicts in which the UK has no stake.
Alternatively, knowing that the human element of the military is entirely deficient might be a spur to develop better robots to do the dirty work. Ideally, the UK's entire defence infrastructure will soon be a collection of droids and drones directed by AI.
Frank.
It is Karma.
Your time is done, old man.
It is unfortunate that you are witnessing the fall of your country in this lifetime, usually civilizations take time to crumble after overstretching, raiding and committing crimes on a mass scale.
But yes.. unfortunate but not undeserved.
The sun has set on the Empire, it seems.
And it is not satisfied with just setting either, it seems to want to drag your empire underneath with the way your politicians are behaving.
The Russian and Chinese military must be rolling on the floor laughing at us
They’re behind it.
Best content online by far! It's so refreshing to have people as brave as you to call this BS out...keep it up Tim!
So dam good to have you back Tim!! Massive respect for turning things around. Huge respect Sir!
Had a friend in the RAF for 30 years he left last year, he had a colleague who was a POC and a good looking chap, Every time there was a corporate video or recruitement drive they used to send for him. My friend said his mate was in the air force for years and said it got on his nerves for being used for the colour of his skin and not his skills.
Yep, I was in the Army and a colleague was from Fiji but of Indian heritage.
He was always pulled aside for photos and TV stuff and hated being the "token" POC .
Positive discrimination in the police was highlighted 20 years ago, positive action they said, no it was discrimination. Ah well, here we go. You are the best mate x
It is in fact "Negative" action!
Yeah… we now have cadets in the force where I live that are now 50% female… great… are they making the crimes 50% female too?
A rare honour to hear someone speaking their truth, Tim, and THE truth for that matter - ex RAF. I flew the Harrier GR3 in the 80s and thankfully exited young enough to begin a whole new life journey back in my country of origin, South Africa. Your mission to help others deal with loneliness is a hugely noble one
Hi Tim, ex RAF myself, this is absolutely shocking what is going on here. Have you seen the latest recruitment ad for the RAF ? It says it's open to anyone yet the advert comprises of women and persons of colour, don't recall seeing any men or males of any kind in the ad. Keep your chin up , appreciate your service and that you do now.
If its not racist, what is it? The right person for the job should get it. Simple as!!!!
It is racist but apparently it’s ok to be racist to white people in their own country!
@@SO-12 you're so right!!
So grateful for you on putting this entire section on the RAF out. Trying to get in myself and just failed OASC (really hoping not for any of these horrendous realities) The people responsible should absolutely be relieved of duty as they don't embody RISE. Be well, be healthy and thank you again.
Go Army/Navy too.
You probably got replaced
@@johnisaacfelipe6357 just makes me feel rather enraged - I'd rather fail because I wasn't up to par than because I'm white, straight and a man.
@@DRUMNERD, I was talking to an RAF engineering officer of several decades’ experience the other day.
From everything they told me, you were refused because you’re white, straight and male.
@@Pete-tq6in Damn, that really is one horrid outcome should it be proven correct. I can't see my avenues now as the refusal says things that are about how I performed, but we can't know if that was hot air from the officer and using it to hide behind ''the agenda'' Sad times eh.
Thanks for the video Tim, very honest and open video. Intelligent people can feel when the organisation they are in has lost its way and the RAF definitely falls into this category. I left in 2003 having been a aircraft technician and even then they were more interested in getting their initial training educationally certified than fit for purpose, thus the attitude adjustment and filtering of people not suited to the military ethos was stepped over and this then had happen later down the line. Nineteen years later and this management mentality of meeting targets and not capability has become fully developed and integrated.
Igor. How you doing pal? Are you still at SMU ?
@@phillipmcgrath7289 yup still clinging on. What are you upto
well done tim for standing up for the white male, well actually all genders and races. when your in the raf you should be perceived as being there because you were one of the best, and not because your race or gender met a quota and your abilities were down the list!!
@@johnashley6858i
Good to see you back on air again. Glad you're still tackling this subject head on. It's more important than ever these days to speak out against injustice.
I wouldn't mind injustice if it made the RAF more combat worthy, but it doesn't. It has precisely the opposite effect, but our supposedly highly intelligent top brass cant see that.
With you on the loneliness I recently went from married with family to divorced and living on my own , it's not fun but I lift 3 to 4 times a week and keep all my empty bottles by the bin so I can see what I drink each month ! Just one step at a time gets you there in the end 💪
I have to take them out every few days, not week, let alone a month. Otherwise my kitchen would literally be a glass palace. And I'm married! Great to hear you're moving in a positive direction.
A few years ago I heard an RAFsergeant saying to a bunch of Air Cadets that the RAFs primary role was delivering humanitarian aid,I thought it was the defence of the realm!.
Saying that defence of the realm is the primary role probably wouldn't impress most kids today but telling them they could be "super heroes" by rescuing the great unwashed around the world might.
That's what all the TV ads show isn't it?
Nothing exciting like firing weapons, making things go bang or driving a tank over a muddy field just basically being aid workers in MTP.
No it's an Officers flying club!
@user-vq1sk1bo1s Sounds like all these exclusive sports the military take part in like international skiing competitions. Officers only need apply. I knew a family military through and through. The daughter never seemed to be actually doing anything military she never got her boots dirty as such just seemed to permanently represent the army around the world either skiing or horse riding.
Nice work if you can get it.
All her photos of her were either in St Moritz or getting a horse riding trophy from some chinless minor royal at Hickstead or Burghley. No shots of her in Afghan or Iraq or in some muddy field during training so I wouldn't trust her with a compass let alone a SA80A3.
Years ago when I applied for pilot training in the services, I was sent to Biggin Hill for 3 days of very difficult aptitude tests . There were about 400 of us and at the end in an assembly hall they read out 4 names ( I was one of them) and the rest were told to go home. We then went for further interviews and then home. The CO stated that only about 1 in 10,000 were capable of passing the aptitude tests . I hope that they havent lowered their standards just to get ethnic minority people in as pilots
Good on yer Tim. Sorry about your difficult times but thank you for helping out those wannabes and calling out this nonsense. 💪
First Class Tim.......nail.......head! Thank god for intelligent and articulate, common sense people like you! We really are becoming too woke to fight! Thanks again and go steady bruv.
My 14 year old son is air cadet and they recently promoted five cadets to corporal, bizarrely they promoted four girls and one not very indigenous looking boy...purely coincidental of course.
Sorry to hear that Roy - it's happrening all over now, unfortunately.
Tim You talk sense and the fact you lost your job for telling the truth is mental but a reflection of the world we live in. Hope you fully recover with the shoulder and keep pushing those weights, so easy to slip and lose focus on what's good for you. Anyway take my hat off to you mate, ex RAF myself (Tonka groundcrew not Aircrew) all the best.
It wasn't just the racist element of the Defence Select Committee, it was all the other questions CAS was asked. He didn't give a direct answer to any questions that were posed. For example it took 5 attempts by Mr Francois to illicit when Wedgetail would enter operational service. Shocking performance for the top man of the RAF!
Promoted to his level of incompetence, sadly.
Don't you come up for air...you numpty shut up!
Listening to you has warmed my heart.
I'm former 16 years RN and ended up commissioned. I left in 2013. I have recently watched a couple of episodes of the programme about the deployment of HMS Queen Elizabeth. It is not the RN I served in. Unfit people bleating about mental health and gender issues. Raising the LGBTXYZ flag on the mainmast FFS!! How would this bunch of throbbers do in a war? Why not just employ hard working blokes at sea? It has worked for the past thousand years.
‘Bunch of throbbers’, great description!
Never be alone Tim you have many friends here who will sit and listen.
We have all gone to dark places suffered loss and tragedy.
Well said Tim! It's strange how the officer cohort preach integrity and moral courage, yet push this shit.
Good to hear form you tim glad you improved your self
Say it how it is!! And respect to you for doing that.
Mate, im ex RAF ground grew, what a fookin disaster and so many lies by the Sirs. I worked with the Lightnings and 80% readiness is bollocks for the good old days. So the selection process, lies lies lies but what do you expect from idiots. Love your channel mate.
Did you receive apension? Many of us have not! It was at the age of 55 now allegedly 60!!
Thanks Tim. You speak with complete common sense. Good on you.
Great chat, regards from Switserland.
Brilliant video Tim. Well done. Both barrells. Awesome. Spot on. Take care of yourself. Look forward to your videos. They sound very interesting. Say it as it is. Keep doing what you do.
Found this channel today. great to see people talking about this subject
The yanks did this years ago Kara Hultgreen was the first result, she was let down by a lowering of the standards to get the female pilot box ticked. Tragically cost her life because truthfully she should not have made it through the training, a blind eye was turned on many an occasion when a she flew a sub standard training flight.
Yep, she was a victim of early positive discrimination.
Would have happened in the RAF too back in the 90s, but the lady concerned wisely resigned before she killed herself/others.
Just re watched Ward Carroll’s analysis of the Kara Hultgreen incident and was about to mention it but you beat me to it. So sad to see how society is seemingly spinning out of control and my own service with it. I suppose the face blind / seat pan handle discussion is irrelevant as there is no handle to pull! We’re not even supposed to sing Delilah at a Welsh rugby match anymore ffs! 🤬
Goes back a good few years but there are suggestions that Lt Kara Hultgreen was pushed through to become the USN’s first female combat pilot and deck qualified on F14, when she wasn’t actually good enough.
Wouldn't be the first who wasn't good enough.
she destroyed an F14 and died doing it , is that correct ?
@@patthewoodboy ask Google.
@@johnnunn8688 found it on youtube ... ua-cam.com/video/rFUXshaaMQM/v-deo.html
@@patthewoodboy, saw it ages ago, on Ward Carrol channel.
Many of us appreciate your insight regarding the decay of the RWF. Keep up the fight.
Have to say as an x squaddie and now psychiatric nurse (now aged 50) that the 2 worst places I have ever known for training (expensive) and not retaining staff are the forces and the NHS. It beggars belief The incompetent imbeciles that get promoted while around them the really decent guys are leaving. It's almost like living in a altered state of reality! In the Army the same old chestnut got rolled out, we'll put you on your cadre course son! The people at the very top of these organisations haven't a clue but then resort to knee jerk reactions to try and encourage a quota of recruits from ethnic backgrounds instead of the best person for the job and more imaginative ways at retention after paying out £38,100 per trainee! Get a grip!
I despair that Wigston and co think the RAF should be a sample of the population, the only criteria should be ability. The can be all black or white or male or female the only criteria should be ability to do the job.
you KNOW it should be our LADS and no women .
Racial diversity and sexual preferences use to be an observation. Now, they're 'movements'.
Well done sir for bringing this out in the open.The People who are responsible for all this ridiculous stupidity need to do some rethinking,.Talking,listening,debating,there seams to come across a groundswell of anger and frustration,of so many well worn things that have stood the test of time are being stupidity’s and held up to ridicule by people who have not the faintest idea of what they are talking about. There also signs that folk are beginning to make a stand and be heard. 😊
Good luck fella keep strong.
Keep speaking truths
Hats off to you Tim… I’m ex-RAF FJ and QFI… I actually trained the first female pilot in the RAF in the late 80s and have to report that from that point there has been absolutely no discrimination against women doing the job, there has also been a steady flow of female pilots into the service. I too have flown/worked with many ethnic minority colleagues… what is going on is all PC bullshit and totally wrong and illegal. I can’t imagine how I would have felt in 1980 if I’d applied for pilot training in the RAF then been denied due to BAME/gender quotas… despicable and just wrong… dreams being destroyed and service operational capability must be affected… fly safe 👍🏻
Thnaks Olly, wish you all the best.
Heartbreaking. My son is in the middle of this at the moment. He out performs EVERYONE around him. When he was a cadet, it was the same. He gave up his weekends to help charities through the RAF Cadets.
Because he's Indigenous British and a male, he's been over looked EVERY single time.
He's looking at emigrating and joining a military there. If the RAF want women, non indigenous Brits and trans people rather the best candidates. So be it. Unlike Anerica, they don't have the size to absorb their ridiculousness and poor performances and if they feel comfortable doing it, so be it.
Sorry to hear this, I have many young people who I coach going through the same - difficult times.
Lucky escape!
Great content as always, wish you all the best!
Excellent work sir. Keep up the good fight. Great to know people like you still exist and care enough to fight for proper equality (equality of opportunity versus equality of outcome).
Utterly disgraceful that their number 1 priority was positive discrimination towards candidates that were less skilled by meritorious achievement, and not getting the very best for the defence of the realm.
Thanks for being open and honest about your situation.
As an Ex-RAF serviceman I believe in Equality- However being competent and fit for role are more important than dropping a more competent candidate because the next one is a person of colour. We need more recruits that are committed and competent not just a lottery driven by politicians and REMF’s
I encountered this in the Rail industry. I actually have a rejection letter that told me I was rejected because I did not reflect the community in which they served. They placed diversity over a candidate with 10 years experience.
When I ride on a train or fly in a plane, I don't care what ethnicity, gender or sexuality my driver or pilot is, I care that they are the best & most qualified person for the job.
I think the best times of being a fighter pilot are gone, sadly (and even general aviation has been changing too). Tim, how would the RAF look if you were The Boss and had free range on it's inventory, hours of flying etc.
He never could have free range, CAS doesn’t control the money, Govt does.
@@johnnunn8688 totally agree, just more of a won the lottery, what would you do question as I agree that the aircraft are becoming so expensive that it must be impacting budgets etc.
It all starts at the brain drain CRANWELL 👍
@@johnleigh349 nah, that’s just how to use KFS properly.
It would look hell of a lot better, and within a few years would be fit for combat.
It's surprising how many practical people are now waking up.
Subbed 👍👍👍👍
My son applied to RAF 5years ago, he past every exam including fitness with top grades, could have had any officers job, they advised go for intelligence, had interview. Never heard a word no explanation nothing
He was prepared to serve his country, never heard a Word. Disgraceful.
Just watched and subscribed to your channel , brilliant ,nice to meet you Tim 😊👍
Spent 27 years in the RAF and as Phantom, Tornado and C130J ground crew. Left 10 years ago and so glad I did as since 2000 it all started going to rat shit. Now it's a box ticking joke with the usual disconnected CAS. Glad to see you are on the mend mate.
Sorry to hear of your personal struggles and good to see you’re tackling them head on 👍 Diversity is an interesting issue and I’m genuinely surprised that the top ranks of the RAF don’t seem to understand what they did wrong. Set a standard required to do the job and anyone who meets the standard should get through plain and simple. (Blind selection I think you called it?) Discrimination isn’t ever an answer to any problem.
When i was younger if i didnt have a criminal record i would have proudly joined the forces. Almost 3 decades later and im so glad i never. Look at what we would be fighting for!
Nice to have you back!
I have to wonder how ALL of the services would react if Conscription is brought back and people would rather sit jail than serve in ANY of the services?
Why should we defend a country that doesn't want us to exist?
Ex RAF pilots were getting £10,000 a month tax free in Saudi on Typhoons two years ago. Add to that bonuses as well. It's a no brainer. Do four years and buy a house cash.
Am so glad people are speaking out about all this discrimination going on especially towards white males, your a breath of fresh air to hear someone speaking sense these days is rare
Shocking. Stay strong fella.
I appreciate you for sharing your experiences here, very interesting to hear from your perspective giving us awareness of whats going on behind the scenes!!
Great stuff Tim and good to see you making content, but you take it easy mate!
Hi Tim.
I’m glad you’re in a better place than a while ago. I was concerned when I saw you here just after your car crash as you were increasingly looking like the Wild Man of Borneo and it was clear that you were struggling.
I didn’t offer support at that point because I wasn’t sure how it would be received.
It’s a bit forthright to tell a chap he’s losing it and about to tip over the edge when you don’t know the full picture but I think lots of people who watch your channel do feel support for you.
Please continue to fight for the RAF to try and make it better.
Our HR department told me this week that my sex was assigned to me. No consideration to how I may feel about learning this news at age 53. I thought my sex was observed and then recorded how wrong was I, hoping to wake up from this fever dream soon.
Well said Tim and couldn't agree more
Let’s have 40% women bricklayers, 42.8% Muslim women refuse collectors, 85% gay/bi-sexual carpenters, 50% men on cosmetic counters - Just because.
Good to hear about reducing drinking but don’t immediately start ‘binge lifting!’ Keep up the good work and hope successes keep coming your way. World is definitely a better place with you in it!
I’m a veteran that now trains soldiers on certain technical courses. We were showing the new learning disability advocate around on her first day, she pointed at the steps alongside some of the armoured vehicles and asked where the ramps were, ‘ramps?’ I asked blankly, ‘yes, for the students in wheelchairs’ she replied......I knew my relationship with this woman was going to go downhill from this moment.
Just seen this, made me laugh 🤣🤣🤣
Daleks don't need vehicles.
I think a lot of women realise they already have the most important job ever, bringing up a family 👍
Total madness, well done for calling out this idiocy
Thanks for the heads up about the kids tim. I'll watch what i write to you and others in comments. Tim has a ship load of integrity. Pity he wasn't running our air service. Congratulations on your sobriety keep it up you deserve it.
My flight sim pc is on its way. I am so excited and happy to join this community soon! Tim you have done so much and I couldn’t thank you enough. As a white male hoping to join the force in a couple years what your doing is incredible. Can’t thank you enough. I will be doing quite a bit of learning in MFS2020 before I join this dcs community as I am gonna be new to flight sims so I’m gonna learn to walk before I learn to run. But hopefully soon I can join this wonderful community
Well said Tim. MERIT. That should be the guiding light. Swearing? Does not bother me. Shows your passion. Sorry to hear about the accident and loss of job.
Some main stream journalists/politicians ought to be taking an interest in these exposes - Piers Morgan, Nigel Farage etc. I suggest that posters on this site who agree with you should email those two suggesting precisely that.
No wonder the RAF cannot get enough fast jet pilots; a) who in their right mind would want to join that outfit? b) existing pilots probably want to get out asap.
They need them for the Officers flying club!
Love the ranting Tim
Just heard you on LBC this evening and thought…I recognise that voice.
Keep up the good work!💪💪
Integrity was failing when I left the RAF 5 years ago.
Let's increase the number of inadequate persons selected as engineers and aircrew in the RAF.
A bit like the transgender Finnish skater, selected via box-ticking instead of ability.
WHAT. COULD. POSSIBLY. GO. WRONG ?
Tim, I have said before and I say it again that I stand shoulder to shoulder with you. What I didn’t say is that I am not RAF but I am a police officer and I am sick and tired of targets and ridiculous diversity being placed above the delivery of service and safety to those that I have sworn my dedicated service to. I feel like a coward for not saying aloud all the things that I am happy to agree with you saying here. The job has lost its way for so long now that I am afraid to speak up for fear of losing my job. The targets that the government set of twenty thousand extra officers is being filled with quite frankly incompetent officers and they are literally taking everyone of ethnicity to meet these targets who shouldn’t, and wouldn’t, have passed the assessments previously. It is insulting to me and my colleagues who have had to prove ourselves under threat of being sacked is we mess up but now these new recruits who are literally just offered the role of Constable because they tick a box for ridiculous government statistics. I absolutely feel insulted but am absolutely without voice because I am a white British officer. I know that any competent officer of a minority would be offended to hear that my voice was silenced because of my ethnicity because they too are competent and are completely my fellow officer. So how can it be that the government and senior officers are so bloody frightened to stand up and say ‘if you are not good enough, you ARE not good enough regardless of colour, sexual orientation, religious beliefs’ etc etc. I swore to protect the public and will give my life if necessary to honour that attestation. I can say with my hand on my heart that the last two years have seen an utterly disgraceful amount of officers sworn into service based purely to satisfy minority figures who have neither the intention, capability or desire to serve the (now) king. My vocabulary fails me Tim as I am not as well spoken or eloquent as you. But I absolutely want you to know that I STILL STAND SHOULDER TO SHOULDER with you and always will. I wish I could be there to support you through in person with what you are going through mate but you are not alone. We, your loyal supporters ARE here to listen. Just know we agree, what you say is listened to, we appreciate every truth you say and we will be here awaiting your next video. My sincerest regards. Roger Henderson.
This is the reason I left after 36-years Service. I felt I was in the worst rank of WO and had no speaking part any longer. I miss the Regiment I joined not the one I left.
I also still suffer from being 59, am half crippled and half stupid.
Two things there is no such word as CAN'T there is no T in CAN.
Life is a series of peaks and troughs, and if tomorrow is like today and you don't like it, go out or pick up the phone and make someone laugh or smile.
Nobody is really alone, pick up the phone........its good to talk.
Keep your faith with your kind heart and honesty.
Great talk Tim, Stay safe.
Pure common sense spoken with clarity and integrity. There does seem to be an ‘over correction’ that exists for recruitment stats in a lot of professions (not just the military), ability to perform and succeed in said profession should take precedence…regardless of gender etc….
On men’s mental health, I think as men we are a stubborn bunch and will very reluctantly talk about how we
feel and cope. I look forward to you sharing any advice you have to help with this….we all need a little help every now and then.
Good drills.
As somebody who spent over 20 years in the RAF, I came to the conclusion that RISE was more of a shopping list. 'We are looking for these qualities because we sorely lack them'... they were still sorely lacking them when I left last year.
Brilliant channel Tim you are awesome!
Love the channel content , saying how it is. keep up the good work.👍
Hi, I'm so glad you called these dishonest people that WORK FOR US out.
I'm truly disgusted by what's happening, how can you decide on applicants for jobs at the tip of the spear any other way than by aptitude, suitability and rank?
Why do we not learn from previous mistakes paid for in blood?
Anyway if you need to talk anytime fella I've big ears, plenty of time and am insomniac.
Chin up fella
😉
Just come across your channel by chance great video 👍🍻 you got yourself another subscriber
GO DANE! *man hugs*!
@@FastJetPerformance cheers right back at ya buddy 🍻👍
Lat one I promise........ Mental health done that been there and still struggle so can talk x
Integrity left that house during the 1980’s! 35 years service and now I am embarrassed to admit belonging to these clowns! This started way back when I was a basics instructor and they started making excuses for females lack of performance! Lower weights, different kit, excuses on excuses! The reason there aren’t black Red Arrows pilots! ????
This same process occurred in South Africa in the national airline and airforce. Net result is that the airline folded and is in business rescue and only Bee pilots are being employed without the proper training or accreditation. I shudder to think what if any maintenance is taking place and waiting for an SAA airliner to drop out of the skies. The airfoce has 25 Saab Gripen jets which are inactive as there are no AA pilots trained or qualified to fly them. All potential quota pilots were failed by Saab Sweden and a training facility in Australia as being unsuitable or untrainable to fly sophisticated weaponry.
Good , fast, straight talking.
100%brilliant you did a great job on this
I work with Diageo and there the exact same men worked in the industry for years can’t get promoted but female or minority comes from some other line of work no experience and get that job it’s a disgrace
Given the history of the importance of the RAF, and the fact we in the western world are closer to global war than in the past 80 years, one would truly think the ONLY preference in selecting recruits would be on merit. Goering would have been pleased.