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February 05, 2010
Lancing the boil
I will be curious to learn if it is still racist when a Labour cabinet minister says it.
Margaret Hodge warns British values of openness and tolerance are under threat because of an increasing sense of 'unfairness' over immigration. The Culture Minister is calling for a new points system - based on length of residence or national insurance contributions - to determine that only migrants who have made a fair contribution to society get the same rights as local families.
Mrs Hodge, who is facing a General Election challenge from BNP leader Nick Griffin, told the Daily Mail it was time to 'lance the boil' of growing discontent over the wave of economic migrants entering Britain. Labour strategists fear there are signs that the far-Right BNP will mount a 'serious challenge' in her Barking, East London seat.
Note here the problem as it is construed by the Establishment. To the Culture Minister, the points system is not meant to redress actual injustice but only the perception of injustice on the part of Britain's white working-/permanent under-class. Not only does this formula absolve the Establishment of its policies these last 40 years but so too the divine terror atrocities, child sexual mutilation and chattel ownership of women practised by the victims of white working class "racism".
Perhaps most grotesque of all is the spectre of the Establishment promising legislation it believes to be at best misguided, at worst racist, now at long last it comes time to appease the British people.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at February 5, 2010 09:27 AM
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