The damage of DEI initiatives is 'manifold' and 'unquantifiable', Ben Habib claims

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Ben Habib has backed Nigel Farage's call to scrap DEI policy, claiming they are "divisive and pernicious".The Reform UK leader waged fresh war on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, labelling the Labour premier "unpatriotic".FULL STORY HERE.

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00:00You can't quantify the damage done by DEI because the damage is manifold and it's not just in,

00:06you know, direct cost of employing people to enforce DEI. The real cost is in progressive

00:11discrimination of people into jobs and positions which they shouldn't hold because they're not the

00:17best at it. And what we're doing is setting aside meritocracy in favour of progressive

00:22discrimination. And that has a massive unquantifiable cost for the country, not to mention

00:27obviously all the cultural damage. DEI is a fundamentally divisive, pernicious government

00:36policy that has to be ditched. But it's not going to pay for a tax, it's not going to pay for

00:40increasing by 40% of the tax threshold. You can't quantify it, but the damage done by it is vast.

00:47And so if you were to remove it, there's bound to be upside. It's a bit like ditching net zero. Again,

00:52Nigel Farage quantified DEI as 7 billion a year and he quantified net zero as 40 billion a year.

00:59Actually, the money will be much, much bigger.

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