Employees at HM Income and Customs have been slated for holding a seminar on the "Guilt of Being British" throughout working hours.
The hour-long session, run by "HMRC Race Community" from 11am to noon on Tuesday, was titled "Guilt of Being British: Listening Circle".
It was marketed as "a robust, interactive, and reflective listening circle exploring the emotional complexity of being South Asian and British" which might cowl matters together with "the emotional weight of colonial historical past".
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The session, which was a part of the division's dedication to range, equality and inclusion (DEI), pledged to "delve into themes of guilt, delight, and identification, providing house for private tales and cultural insights", based on a put up on HMRC's intranet.
Contributors have been informed they might discover "the duality of identification – balancing heritage and belonging" alongside the "emotional weight of colonial historical past and inherited trauma".
However Tory chief Kemi Badenoch lambasted the occasion as "nonsense" as she urged Whitehall staffers to go away the service in the event that they weren’t happy with Britain.
"Is it any surprise the general public hate coping with HMRC, now we be taught the employees are being taught to really feel responsible about being British?" Badenoch informed the Mail.
"In Authorities, I fought to take away all this nonsense from the Civil Service.
"Underneath my management, a Conservative Authorities will guarantee public our bodies are happy with Britain, not ashamed of it.
"We'll defend our historical past, not apologise for it. And if that offends the Civil Service's seminar circuit, they're welcome to go someplace else."
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Elsewhere on the session, attendees have been informed they might be taught extra about "profession challenges confronted by South Asian girls – boundaries, bias and expectations" in addition to discovering how "storytelling and illustration assist reclaim our narratives".
Nevertheless, not everybody throughout the division appeared to agree with the occasion.
"This instance of a work-time employees occasion pushing a extremely divisive anti-British narrative completely encapsulates the nightmare that’s Civil Service employees networks," one Whitehall supply informed the Mail.
The supply added: "These targeted on race and trans particularly appear to function fully with out scrutiny, and entice massive numbers of activist employees, intent on pushing their private beliefs on their colleagues reasonably than figuring out and tackling precise office points.
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"This can be a complete abandonment of the important precept of Civil Service political neutrality and makes plenty of us very uncomfortable, however should you problem these teams on their approaches you danger placing a goal in your again.
"As is seen on this occasion, these networks additionally allow many individuals to deal with the office like their private remedy centres."
Former Tory minister Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg added: "It’s peculiar that individuals who hate their nation wish to run it.
"Maybe I ought to supply a course on why being British is to win first prize within the lottery of life."
It comes as endurance dwindles with HMRC's efficiency – as a whole bunch of 1000’s of calls from taxpayers go unanswered each month.
Earlier this 12 months, Parliament's Public Accounts Committee produced a report which discovered HMRC answered simply 66.4 per cent of shoppers' makes an attempt to talk with an adviser, effectively under the goal of 85 per cent.
Joanna Marchong, investigations marketing campaign supervisor on the TaxPayers' Alliance, stated: "Taxpayers are fed up of bankrolling woke employees networks.
"Whereas HMRC quangocrats sit round in circle whining about colonialism, hard-working Brits are being left on maintain for hours on finish.
"Employees networks shouldn’t be funded by taxpayers and so they actually shouldn't be occurring throughout working hours."
Whereas it isn’t recognized how most of the 60,000 HMRC employees attended the occasion, a spokesman for the division stated it could have been lower than 0.1 per cent and had no impression on its call-handling skill.