I’ve written extensively on here, partially thanks to information supplied by some of my contacts in the Herefordshire area, about a particularly appalling character from the ‘diversity’ field by the name of Neville Meredith. He’s one of those apostles of multiculturalism, a modern British equivalent of a ‘political officer’ on a Soviet era warship. He’s a man who seems to think it unthinkable that anybody would deviate from his ‘la la’ land view that we can all live together in some sort of kumbaya fantasy. He’s also a classic example of a person who has made a good living out of ‘non jobs’ for many years, but his latest position, in the counterterror field no less, should give us all cause for concern as it’s not a job he appears even remotely qualified to do.
Neville Meredith has been extremely successful in getting funding for his various diversity related projects. It seems that there is no source of money that he hasn’t tapped for LGBT, or race related projects, or his favourite activity promoting Islam in a place that it is not wanted. He has been able to secure funding from the local authority, charitable trusts, the police (allegedly) and the National Lottery. All of this to promote his particular ‘diversity’ hobby horses. He’s screwed money out of various sources to promote the building of a mosque, a patronising and frankly completely unreadable English/Polish magazine, a website with multiculturalist exhortations, various LGBT projects and also, most importantly, at least for him, Neville Meredith himself. Despite cuts to essential services in the area, including to public toilets, one thing that continues to be funded, whether from the council or other public funders, is Mr Neville Meredith.
I must admit to a slight bit of admiration for Mr Meredith. Never have I seen a person screw so much money out of so many sources for so many unwanted, patronising and sometimes dangerous projects. Meredith is nothing if not tenacious in his desire to get the rest of us to pay for his diversity promotion obsessions. He’s like a particularly recalcitrant and stubborn clagnut clinging tenaciously on to an anal hair, defying all attempts at wiping it away.
Now, Neville Meredith seems to have acquired another publicly funded post, this time in the counter terrorism field. He’s been made the ‘Prevent and Channel Co-ordinator’ for the Safer Herefordshire Partnership. What qualified Neville Meredith for this important position I wonder? Could it be his work on the much unread and heavily Lottery Funded ‘Here For All’ multicultural magazine? Or what about the expensive online presence of the Facevalues group and the bureaucracy associated with it? Maybe it’s his slavish and frankly Quisling-like championing of a mosque in the face of local opposition, that is the key to him getting his new job? Who knows. What we do know is that Mr Meredith is still pocketing taxpayer cash for yet more ‘non-jobbery’.
I believe that none of his previous positions or incarnations qualify him remotely for being a local counterterrorism co-ordinator. The very idea that someone should be appointed to this job who thinks the sun shines out of the arses of Muslims, and that people dislike Islam merely because of mindless bigotry, should be ludicrous, but sadly it is not. This vital job in tracking and helping to prevent the rash of Islamic extremism that is sweeping the country and endangering our citizens should have gone to someone much better and more relevantly qualified than an ex Diversity Officer. In a military city there must be scores of suitably qualified ex-service people with experience in counterterrorism work, administration, budgeting and the interpersonal skills that this position must need, who could have got this position. The job could have gone to someone far more effective, efficient and properly skilled for this than Neville Meredith. It’s really not the sort of post that you want to trust to someone like an ex Diversity Officer, it’s too important.
If the Government’s ‘Prevent’ and ‘Channel’ programmes are to be effective against Islamic terrorism, and let’s be frank that’s the main problem at the moment every other form of extremist problem is secondary, then it needs to be like a chain, strong in every link. By appointing Neville Meredith, a promoter of the very ideology that is attacking us left, right and centre, the powers that be have ensured that this chain has within it a very weak link indeed.
This is an appalling appointment that will do little to keep the people safe from Islamic terror. It will however continue to enrich a man, who in my opinion, has had a more than a fair crack of the whip when it comes to public and quasi public funding for his various ‘non-jobs’. Another great worry about this appointment is that because of Meredith’s background in diversity, he may spend more time on worrying about those who express distaste at Islam and the often violent problems it brings rather than the dangerous Islamics. Such dangerous jihadists would dearly love to score a terrorist hit on a city that is synonymous with Britain’s much feared and respected Special Air Service. With that in mind it makes Meredith’s appoint to this post appear more and more troubling.
If it came down to a choice between appointing Mr Meredith for this job, or appointing an anal clagnut, I think I’d choose the clagnut, it may well be able to do the job better.
Links
Neville Meredith appointed as Prevent and Channel co-ordinator
https://beta.herefordshire.gov.uk/media/4379173/prevent_poster.pdf
Neville Meredith’s lamentable ‘Here for All’ magazine
More waste from Mr Meredith
https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2015/01/11/how-much-money-will-this-guff-cost-herefordshire-taxpayers/
Neville Meredith the useful idiot for Islam (from 2012)
Neville Meredith panders to Islam again and can’t understand why people don’t like the ‘religion of rape and murder’.
There’s plenty more on Meredith on F211, just put his name in the search box.
Some may find this document, a draft Prevent strategy document which Meredith has been involved in with Herefordshire and Ludlow College.
http://www.hlcollege.ac.uk/PDF/safeguarding-prevent-strategy.pdf
There’s a lot of it about… non jobs that is.
One half of the country bleeding the other half white, (can I say “white?”),
doing nothing constructive, or beneficial to the nation, and being
well financed for it.
And all for riding the PC gravy train.
Agree there. Useless parasites the lot of them. However what is really worrying about this case is Neville Meredith has been given a job that is intimately connected with our safety and someone who is in that position should not be one who has spent a lot of his career pandering to Islam and thinking the sun shines out of Islamic arses. It’s like putting a fraudster in charge of a bank vault, it’s something that shouldn’t have been done. When he was in his Diversity positions he was a moneywasting joke, but to put him in charge of the local Prevent system is extremely sinister.
Bearing in mind Meredith’s background and previous actions and the sort of causes that he has supported (too often with public money) I would suspect that his primary interest isn’t dealing with Islamic terror and extremism. He is much more likely to focus on those who are opposed to Islam and the terror and extremism that it always brings. I think we can make a juddgement as to what his priorities will by looking at the draft Prevent strategy document from Herefordshire and Ludlow College that I put up at the bottom of the piece. Apparently Meredith has been involved in this drafting and a brief read of that showed that ‘far right’ ‘extremism’ is going to be occupying much more of his time than the much more dangerous matter of Islamic extremism and jihad.