Bully Boy

This is just too good:

Deputy PM John Prescott's department is being accused of bullying, with one in 10 workers claiming to have been victimised in the past year.

There is also concern at discrimination against black and disabled staff, according to a staff survey carried out by the department last year.

MPs on the committee which covers the work of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister(OPDM), are demanding action.

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The survey found 10% of staff felt they had been bullied in the past year, 8% had experienced discrimination and 6% reported harassment.

Some 22% of staff had witnessed unfair treatment and a larger proportion of black or black British staff (14%) had experienced discrimination than other staff.

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The committee's report, out on Thursday, also accused Mr Prescott's department of spin, highlighting "an unjustifiably favourable presentation of its achievements" in the ODPM's report.

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Members also referred to a "leadership deficit" at board level with criticism from staff of the leadership, visibility and openness of the board.

Far be it for me to nitpick, but using phrases like: "Spin", "an unjustifiably favourable presentation of its achievements" and "leadership deficit" in reference to part of a New Labour government is pretty much Stating The Fucking Obvious.

The real peach is the accusations of victimisation and discrimination. Comrade Prescott is supposed to be a Socialist! He may be a tax dodging, two Jag, "Grace and Favour" kind of Socialist, but a Socialist nonetheless. He wants to levy high taxes on the well off, spy on our every move and have the state control every bit of our lives. If that doesn't make him a communist socialist, then I don't know what does.

Socialists are supposed to stick up for the rights of the oppressed, poorly paid working class men and women.

Apparently not any more.

Filed under: Politics, New Labour Spin