The Labour regime will formally introduce anti-white legislation in the awarding of government contracts, Equalities Minister Harriet Harman has announced.
The measures mean that firms tendering for taxpayer-funded work could be judged on new criteria including the gender and how many non-whites they employ.
In practice this means a company staffed by white British people, even if able to deliver services at a cheaper rate and more efficiently, will be pushed aside in favour of a rival company which employs the “correct” number of non-whites.
In a bizarre twisting of logic which could only come from a deviant leftist like Ms Harman, she said her new Equalities Bill will mean the annual £175 billion public procurement budget will be used to promote “equality.”
Ms Harman’s version of “equality” is actually anti-white male discrimination. The draft bill will oblige employers to give preference to female or non-white job applicants over equally-qualified white men in order to make up race quotas.
She said: “All other things being equal, if there are two companies bidding for a contract and one has a much better equality record, then it would be down to the procuring authority to choose that one.”
Existing rules mean tendering firms can be asked about their general policy on diversity issues and any previous tribunal cases of discrimination.
Business leaders said that Ms Harman’s bill will hurt the UK economy. Miles Templeman, director general of the Institute of Directors, said: “Harriet Harman must be the only person in Britain to believe that in the midst of some of the most difficult business conditions in years, introducing yet more regulation is a way of ‘boosting economic recovery’.”