Monday 27 February 2012

Is this the unacceptable face of Modern Britain?


 
 Emma Harrison

The daughter of an oil worker, she graduated from the University of Bradford with an engineering degree and founded A4e in 1991.
The company now employs around 4000 staff across 250 centres worldwide.
It is a principal supplier and prime contractor to governments of services such as the Flexible New Deal, Legal Aid Helpline, Social care, Education for Offenders, Business Enterprise and Youth Vocational centres.
She was appointed as a voluntary troubled families 'Tsar' by Prime Minister David Cameron in 2010, establishing the Working Families Everywhere campaign.
Harrison, 47, has appeared in Channel 4's Make me a Million and Series 1 of The Secret Millionaire.
What never surprises articulate readers is what can be read in a CV.  The one above looks like the credentials of a saint, and is in fact that of David Cameron’s angel Emma Harrison who was born in Essex but was brought up in Sheffield (taken from an article in the Daily Telegraph). What is more pertinent is the following extract:
While behind the bar in a working men's club in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham for the show, she heard racist language that made her feel "physically sick" and left after two-and-a-half hours. (But making millions [£’s] on the back of millions of youngster being almost unemployable, a social and educational defect and one easily pounced on by a selected elite where the average hard worker can never penetrate, is social apartheid.  Does that mean she is a social bigot and had a loathing of the thousands of British service personnel serving in Afghanistan, most of whom can never walk alongside her with her aspirational detestation for the ordinary Englishman?  No wonder the Socialist detractors can have a field day with such events and hypocrites.  I wonder, have I filled my time sheet out correctly???)
Harrison was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours.
She has also received a number of business awards.
She has received honorary doctorates from Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Derby.

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