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The RNLI And Political Correctness Gone Mad

One of the sadnesses of the modern world is that any and every organisation gets taken over by the prodnoses. This includes such august institutions as the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

For non-Brits, a little explanation for this is a pretty mad idea. The lifeboats aren’t run by the government. Indeed, most lifeboat men aren’t paid either. It’s a charity, one of the best supported in the country in fact. The coxswain will be paid, normally at least, but the crew are simply local volunteers. And it’s entirely private, charitable, donations which build the boats, run the stations and so on. There was a time when government offered to provide funding, which was taken. Then rejected – for the service found that it lost more than £1 in donations for every £ taken from taxpayers. Yes, OK, it’s mad, but it works. We’re also very proud of it.

And so, two such volunteers have just been fired because they had coffee mugs with smutty pictures upon them.

Two RNLI lifeboat volunteers have been sacked in a row over pictures of naked women on mugs.

The men had given each other Secret Santa gifts including a mug which featured a photo of a nude woman with the face of one crewman superimposed on top.

A manager discovered the mugs in a cupboard at the base in Whitby, the Sun reported, and ordered the crew to destroy them.

And that’s it really. Two men with a proven willingness to risk their own lives in order to save those in peril upon the sea get fired over a mild bit of smut.

Initially they were told to remove the mugs and that they would not face any further action. However, they were then told they would have to go through a disciplinary hearing which involved looking through their WhatsApp messages.

They were then told they could no longer work at the station in Whitby because the mugs could have been found by schoolchildren, which posed a ‘safeguarding risk’, according to the Sun.

No, really, in this modern day with all and every kind of porn a click away on the internet schoolchildren must be protected from a bit of smut. Smut sitting at the bottom of a cupboard.

Whitby RNLI says it won’t tolerate bullying, harrassment, or discrimination, after the sacking of two of its volunteers.

We told you how three more have resigned since the incident, which involved the alleged production of what it calls sexually inappropriate material.

IT’S A MILD BIT OF SMUT. AS A JOKE!

There are things it is important to worry about, like who rescue the 4 year old from drowning when the wind pushes her lilo out to sea, or who takes the crew off a sinking freighter in a North Sea gale. There are things it isn’t important to worry about like adults having a bit of a snigger. The unfortunate fact of the modern world is that all organisations, eventually, get colonised by the prodnoses who don’t know the difference.

Fie to the modern world and so much the worse for it. And who will join the march to bring Up Helly Ha a little further south, with a certain RNLI manager playing a starring role upon the burning deck?

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Hallowed Be
Hallowed Be
5 years ago
Hallowed Be
Hallowed Be
5 years ago
Reply to  Hallowed Be

“there is such a thing as morale.”

jgh
jgh
5 years ago

I live in Whitby, and there’s more “smut” freely available on sale in the tourist shops selling tourist tat to tourists.

(personal opinion, blah blah etc)

jgh
jgh
5 years ago

Top Brass are saying the two have been stood down due to “bullying and intimidation”. Unless the nude body the faces were pasted on was of the crew or staff they only seem to have been “bullying or intimidating” each other by placing their face on a nuddy body. So, they are the targets of the bullying/intimidation from each other.

blah blah etc.

TD
TD
5 years ago

Oh come now, somehow it seems very British to think it’s better to drown than to be rescued by someone who’s jib is quite cut right. Sorry, but just won’t do old boy.

Bloke in North Dorset
Bloke in North Dorset
5 years ago

The engineers get paid.

If you’re in the Poole area the RNLI college does a good deal on rooms if they’re not running courses. The tours are also worth doing as well, just for the ride in the simulator.

Southerner
5 years ago

The reality is that if no action is taken then the story goes viral and donations drop like a post-iceberg Titanic. This is damage control in a social media world.

MrYan
MrYan
5 years ago
Reply to  Southerner

Yep, and that’s the point. The Prodnoses could have just told the Twatter SJWs to bugger off. Instead they sacked the people who risk their lives to rescue others. Eckian purge of the charity sector required.

JamesInNZ
JamesInNZ
5 years ago
Reply to  Southerner

The reality is that the people who would have taken offence are people who don’t donate to charities as they expect the Government to force other people to donate for them instead.

By sacking decent men for a bit of banter between them I fear that the RNLI may lose donations from people who donate to them because they are a proper charity who rely on voluntary donations. I used to donate when I lived in the UK – mostly because they seemed above all the crap that goes on in fake charities like Oxfam, and RSPB.

Baron_Jackfield
Baron_Jackfield
5 years ago

So a couple of brave men who provide their expert services for free have “nudie” pics on their tea-mugs… So f*cking what? The RNLI should have told the SJWs to “go swivel” and strongly sanctioned or fired the idiot manager who brought this all into the public domain.

As an (ex) recreational offshore sailor, the RNLI is the only national/large charity to which I donate. This PC nonsense and the way these volunteers have been treated is gicing me cause for thought – the local cat rescue centre is looking to be a more likely recipient this year.

Hector Drummond
5 years ago

The pictures didn’t even have any body parts showing. You see more in Cosmopolitan magazine!

Quentin Vole
Quentin Vole
5 years ago

I only buy Cosmo for the articles.

Bloke in North Dorset
Bloke in North Dorset
5 years ago

The engineers get paid.

If you’re in the Poole area the RNLI college does a good deal on rooms if they’re not running courses. The tours are also worth doing as well, just for the ride in the simulator.

jgh
jgh
5 years ago

I live in Whitby, and there’s more “smut” freely available on sale in the tourist shops selling tourist tat to tourists.

(personal opinion, blah blah etc)

TD
TD
5 years ago

Oh come now, somehow it seems very British to think it’s better to drown than to be rescued by someone who’s jib is quite cut right. Sorry, but just won’t do old boy.

jgh
jgh
5 years ago

Top Brass are saying the two have been stood down due to “bullying and intimidation”. Unless the nude body the faces were pasted on was of the crew or staff they only seem to have been “bullying or intimidating” each other by placing their face on a nuddy body. So, they are the targets of the bullying/intimidation from each other.

blah blah etc.

Hallowed Be
Hallowed Be
5 years ago
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