Low-life Politician of the Day

Most readers have probably come across the case of Carl Lewis, the man who is being taken to court by the Commission for Racial Equality, for organising a petition against the creation of a gypsy encampment in his neighbourhood. Now, via the Devil's Kitchen, I read about the equally disgusting treatment meted out to retired soldier Jake Reid, after he sent an e-mail to Dundee's lord provost, Labour councillor John Letford:

Mr Reid had sent two e-mails to Lord Provost Letford after being outraged by Mr Letford's failure to properly address the Queen during a royal visit to the city. He headlined his e-mail "Dundee and Dignity", and wrote: "Sir, You are an embarrassment to Dundee, when will you resign?"

Days later, a riot squad arrived at his door and ordered him to stop sending e-mails to the provost.

Mr Reid, 56, said: "I e-mailed the lord provost as a citizen of his city after I was embarrassed at his handling of two recent events. There was the official re-opening of Baxter Park, which Her Majesty the Queen attended, and Provost Letford mumbled, 'I'll now ask the Queen to open the park'.

"He has no protocol, no awareness of how to be around dignitaries, and I was embarrassed. It was the same thing at a recent veteran's parade in Dundee."

When he failed to receive a reply, Mr Reid sent a second e-mail to Lord Provost Letford, quoting A Man's A Man For A' That.

But Mr Reid was shocked when riot police suddenly arrived at his home in Dundee.

He explained: "Out of the blue, there is a knock at my door and the police are standing there, complete with a riot police van. The cops asked me if I had sent two e-mails to the lord provost.

"I told them that I had and they told me not to send him any more e-mails. But I said, 'Don't tell me not to write to an elected official'.

"When he retires I will stop, but not before."

I'd say that an "embarrassment to Dundee" is a fairly apt description of Letford. How else do you describe a politician who sets the police on those of his constituents who send him critical e-mails? Well, I suppose that a few terms do spring to mind, of which "self-righteous scum" would be among the more temperate...

As for the police: they have apologised, for all that that's worth. In the meantime, I would advise anyone in the Dundee area who has had their home burgled to send their lord provost an abusive e-mail: at least then there's a chance that the police will actually bother to come round.

The Environment Agency: not anti-white, just anti-English

Abigail Howarth is a white, English, eighteen year-old, living in Bedfordshire, a county which is both very much in England, and predominantly white. She applied for a job working for the Environment Agency on its flood management programme. But she was subsequently informed that there was no point in pursuing her application, since she was not from a minority group, and the position in question was specifically intended to be filled by a member of such a group.

Now, what sets this apart from the numerous other cases in which individuals, and sometimes whole towns, have been subjected to inferior treatment on the grounds of being white, is that in this case, Miss Howarth was discriminated against, not because she was white, but because she fell into the category of "White English". Had she been "White Scottish", "White Welsh", "White Irish", or "White Other", then she would have been fine. Apparently, the Scots, the Welsh, and the Irish are now, in a very minor way, designated victim groups, at least as far as the Environment Agency is concerned. But because Miss Howarth was guilty of being English, in England, she has been treated as a second-class applicant.

Now, I am opposed to all forms of so-called "positive discrimination" and "affirmative action". If I were a resident of Bedfordshire whose house was at risk of flooding, then I would want the person in charge of managing that flood risk to be the best person for the job, regardless of their ethnicity, rather than someone who may have only got the job because their appointment enabled the Environment Agency to tick some "diversity" boxes. But this case does seem particularly bizarre, because of the distinction drawn between the English, and all other white people, whether of the British Isles or not. For a start, since the job advert to which Miss Howarth responded makes specific reference to those "of the following descents", and then goes on to list the various groups designated for favourable treatment (including the Welsh, the Scots, and the Irish), then I would assume that, even if one was a white person born and bred in England, then the presence of a Welsh, Scottish, or Irish parent or grandparent might qualify one to list oneself as being White Welsh, etc, and therefore qualify for preferential treatment. And there must be millions of people living in England who can find at least one such ancestor. So, if Miss Howarth had had an Irish grandmother, she might well have been able to profess to be "White Irish", and her position would have been substantially improved.

I note that the Commission for Racial Equality, while happy to raise merry hell over a comic book, has no objection to this blatant discrimination. Quelle Surprise!

Trevor Phillips: Britain's Greatest Living Idiot?

Well, it's between him and Madeleine Bunting, with Rowan Williams a distant third. In his latest bid for this supreme honour, Trev, as I affectionately call him, has attacked Gordon Brown over the composition of his new cabinet. Well, nothing too wrong with that: they're all a bunch of bloody idiots! But Trev's complaint has nothing to do with the quality of Brown's cabinet. Rather, it is to do with who is in that cabinet.

Specifically, Trev thinks that there are too many of those evil white men in the cabinet. Apparently, the cabinet is now 100% white, and the number of female cabinet ministers has fallen from eight, under the Blessed Tony, to five, under Prime Minister Clunky Fist. Trev, who was described as being "hopping mad about this", has even threatened to resign his position. A nation prepares to mourn...

Really, though, I'm unsure what it is that Trev actually wants. Does he believe that blacks should be guaranteed at least one post in each cabinet, regardless of merit? Because that's what it sounds like.
That would, of course, be idiotic, as would any form of affirmative action programme, in government or anywhere else. What we want from a government is a group of people who will do what is best for Britain. Any policy which required that higher quality candidates for office be passed over because they didn't conform to the requirements of some "equal opportunities" directive would be idiotic in any situation, and potentially disastrous if applied to appointments to the highest governmental posts in the land.

I would add the point that Trev should get his own house in order before he lectures anyone else on diversity and representation. After all, in 2004, when Trev was head of the Commission for Racial Equality (he now heads the Commission for Equality and Human Rights - plus ca change), a mere 38% of CRE staff were white, as against over 90% of the total population. If one didn't know any better, then with under-representation of that degree, one might almost feel that the CRE was "institutionally racist".

Burn the heretics, and all their works!

Readers may recall that at the beginning of last month, I noted that efforts were being made to remove the iconic French cartoon character, Asterix the Gaul, as the face of a campaign promoting children's rights, on the grounds that it was "too French" for a multicultural society such as France.

Well, now another well-known cartoon character has fallen foul of the multiculturalists and "anti-racists". Yes, Tintin, the Belgian cartoon character, has been denounced as "racist" by the ever-cretinous Commission for Racial Equality, which wants him banned. The particular offence comes in the form of the book Tintin in the Congo, first published in 1946. Apparently, the depictions of black Congolese in the book are deemed demeaning.

A spokesman for the CRE said: "This book contains imagery and words of hideous racial prejudice, where the 'savage natives' look like monkeys and talk like imbeciles.

"It beggars belief that in this day and age Borders would think it acceptable to sell and display Tintin In The Congo. High street shops, and indeed any shops, ought to think very carefully about whether they ought to be selling and displaying it."

The spokesman said the only acceptable place for the book was "in a museum, with a big sign saying 'old fashioned, racist claptrap' ".

Tintin may not be politically-correct. It may even be offensive to some people (what isn't?). But that is absolutely no reason to ban it. Children can, presumably, enjoy Tintin without becoming wicked racists with a mission to wipe out all black people. And surely, if this is a book which children shouldn't be reading, then that is a matter for their parents to decide on, rather than race relations industry honchos.

Another point that comes to mind is, why pick on this rather innocuous comic book? Why does the CRE not concern itself with, for example, the deeply racist lyrics directed by certain black rappers against white people? After all, I don't think that Tintin ever expressed his desire to kill blacks, did he? As ever, the CRE's behaviour just serves to illustrate the double standards which permeate all discussions of race in this country today.

Racist White Devils

The execrable Big Brother again hit the headlines this week, as a white retard called a black retard "nigger", and was promptly expelled from the Big Brother House, to the satisfaction of the Commission for Vilifying White People (or "Commission for Racial Equality", as it is officially known), Keith Vaz, and other pillars of society. No doubt the sheer excitement is driving Hannah Clarkson insane with pleasure.

The not overly bright Emily Parr is not, perhaps, having such a fun time, however. In this post-modern age, when upsetting a non-white is the cardinal sin, the gutter press has been enjoying the opportunity to enter into a bit of character assassination, with The Sun revealing that as a child she behaved in a mildly disrespectful manner on a school trip to Auschwitz. So she must be a Nazi, and we can only thank God and Trevor Phillips that she was evicted before she remembered to launch a campaign of mass genocide!

But, of course, as with so many other supposedly racist incidents, this has been over-hyped to its death, and then brought back to life and hyped to death again by the MSM and the race relations industry. A rare note of common sense has been sounded by Allison Pearson, who, writing in the Daily Mail, pointed out that Miss Parr and her supposed victim had been getting on fine until the incident occurred, and that Miss Parr's only crime was to think that she could get away with using a word that blacks use on an everyday basis. Indeed, Ms Pearson goes so far as to suggest that Miss Parr is the real victim of racism in this case, since she has been punished for using a word which, had she been black, would have passed without comment.

This may well be the case. Certainly there are double standards at play here, and not just in respect of the word 'nigger'. No, even if one accepts that white people should not, in any circumstances, address blacks by that title, there is still massive anti-white discrimination going on here. I refer to the fact that while whites can never use abusive terms like 'nigger' towards blacks, blacks can, and do, use comparable terms when addressing or referring to whites. For example, during Celebrity Big Brother, Jermaine Jackson referred to Jade Goody and her family as "white trash". A racist term if ever I heard one, and yet there was no outcry about that, and he was not evicted from the house.
This is not a one-off. How long would a white musician's career last if he made a habit of calling black people "black devils", or called for them to be killed, or openly espoused racist ideologies regarding blacks? About thirty seconds, at the most. And yet black rappers such as Public Enemy and Ice Cube have for years been busily complaining about "white devils", calling for the killing of whites, and espousing the very racist (albeit hilarious) Nation of Islam ideology that whites were somehow "grafted" from blacks by an evil scientist, without any repercussions. Indeed, so far from being criticised for their racist views, they have been feted by the supposed anti-racists of the liberal-left, and I'd bet good money that if, through some miracle, Ice Cube or Public Enemy were dropped by the record labels for their racist lyrics, then the "anti-racists" would be crying "racism" until their voices were hoarse.

Here then, was Emily Parr's mistake: she expected to be given treatment equal to that which blacks commonly receive. Indeed, not even that, since her words were clearly not motivated by hatred, so much as by stupidity, and, which is much the same thing, by a desire to embrace black culture. What she did not realise, however, is that there are two groups in society: designated victim groups, and designated oppressor groups. Blacks, being in the former category, can do no wrong, and whites, being in the latter category, had better keep their mouths shut, lest they have an uncomfortably close view of the next witch burning.

Update: I have posted a rather more concise variation on this post over at ATW.

Population Replacement Watch

One in five schoolchildren is from an ethnic minority - almost double the figure a decade ago.

The annual school census reveals a Britain where one in eight pupils speaks a language other than English at home.

The record figures include more than 40,000 children from Eastern Europe who have enrolled at schools since the enlargement of the European Union in 2004.

The statistics emerged as the race relations watchdog warned that Britain's segregated schools are a "ticking timebomb".

The Commission for Racial Equality's director of policy said parents must stop sending their children to schools where most pupils come from similar religious or racial backgrounds.

Nick Johnson also suggested schools should be given more money to admit a racially mixed intake. He said: "We're in fear of turning into a mini-America with racially determined schools.

"Schools are where our children first learn how to get along with people from other cultures and backgrounds. Racially segregated schools prevent this from happening. This is a ticking timebomb."

Calling people "subhuman" for finding this kind of thing worrying is also a bit of a bar to community cohesion, isn't it, Nick? Perhaps you should take that up with your boss, eh?

His comments came as figures published by the Department for Education and Skills showed the biggest year- on-year increase in ethnic minority pupils for a decade.

They account for just under a fifth (19.8 per cent) of England's 6.5million primary and secondary pupils, up from 11 per cent when Labour came to power.

Meanwhile, the number of primary pupils alone who do not speak English as their first language increased by seven per cent from last year to 448,000 - or about one child in seven. Overall, it is around one in eight.

But the Commission for Racial Equality is concerned that there are not enough resources to integrate pupils from such diverse backgrounds. Mr Johnson said he was particularly worried about Tony Blair's controversial city academies and trust schools.

Well done Nick. Never miss a chance to push a leftist cause, no matter how irrelevant.

He added that some of these are using their extra freedoms to "cream off pupils from certain ethnic backgrounds or religions, thus ... increasing racial tensions".

The Conservatives said ministers had been caught off-guard by the increase in non-native English speakers in schools.

Tory education spokesman David Willetts said: "The Government has completely failed to keep up with the rate of change in our school population."

A DfES spokesman said: "The Education and Inspections Act 2006 placed a new duty on the governing bodies of all maintained schools, including faith schools, to promote community cohesion."

How wonderful. Of course, if successive governments had not embarked on the lunatic scheme of bringing people from all over the world to live together in one country, while at the same time continually undermining and belittling the native population and their culture, then we might not have problems with community cohesion on the scale that we do now. But that's wicked hate speech, and having read it, you must now say three Hail Trevs and genuflect repeatedly before a picture of Mandela, in order that your soul may be cleansed of the stain of "prejudice".