Labour Play The Race Card!Home Secretary, David Blunkett, stunned the race relations industry and the PC lobby when, on Radio 4's "Today" programme this morning, he acknowledged that race and immigration where back on the political agenda after twenty years of being a taboo topic.At the end an interview with John Humphreys, the Home Secretary was tackled on the wisdom of open discussion on race and immigration. He replied, "Thankfully we live in a democratic society, which enables us to discuss these issues. If we are not allowed to do so, then democracy is dead" His remarks will set alarm bells ringing amongst the bludgeoning 'Politically Correct Lobby' at Westminster and in the corridors of the Commission for Racial Equality. They have worked diligently for two decades to successfully stifled any debate on race and immigration. In the late seventies 'immigration' was always top of the opinion poll when voters were asked which political issue concerned them most. It was closely followed by 'rising crime' with the two topics well clear of anything else. Then, out of the blue, race and immigration were removed from the political agenda and no one was allowed express a viewpoint without being vilified. Careers, political and otherwise, were lost as mavericks tried to open discussion on the subject. Talk on immigration was taboo and those brave souls who dared to venture an opinion, not wholly supportive of our ethnic minorities, were ridiculed and ostracised. The treatment dished out by the media this year to the British National Party, for daring to suggest a halt to any further immigration, illustrated that this was a subject still inaccessible for discussion. But today, after David Blunkett played his trump card, that might have changed, and race and immigration could be back on the political agenda. |
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