RACE WAR POLITICS

Labour’s latest move to legitimise mass immigration into the UK involves the introduction of a citizenship test. This test does not require immigrants to understand British history.

However, it does require immigrants to understand their ‘rights’. These rights include sex discrimination laws, race discrimination laws, how to get unemployment benefit, how to get council tax benefit, how to complain about the police, the Human Rights Act, homosexual partnerships, legal aid, and how to get the local council to provide a house.

Apparently, knowing how to allege that a police officer is a racist is more important than understanding Britain’s past and hence its culture.

David Davis, the Tory shadow Home Secretary, has said: ‘These citizenship tests must not become another costly New Labour gimmick. It is vital that a British citizenship test is about Britain - not how to claim benefits’.

It is to be noted that David Davis does not object to mass immigration, only the manner of it. Nor in his interview with Jonathan Dimbleby last Sunday, did David Davis oppose foursquare the introduction of the proposed new law outlawing incitement to religious hatred. He thought that it would have been better to amend the existing law rather than create a new one.

Also, David Davis has in the past described the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) as ‘an important public institution’. The CRE is certainly a very self-important institution and a very nasty one. The CRE has itself been charged with racial discrimination on many occasions, and even former members have called for its fundamental reform if not abolition.

One former CRE commissioner, Raj Chandran, who had been one of 3 Tories on the commission (all of whom were purged under Labour) wrote in April 2001:

‘My message is that the CRE has grossly exceeded and distorted its mission, which was defined by the 1976 Race Relations Act as being to fight discrimination and to foster good race relations.

Instead, this generously funded and largely unaccountable body has fostered prejudice and self-pity. It devotes its energies to stigmatising the white majority population and stirring up resentment among Britain’s black and Asian minorities.

It attempts to perpetuate two myths: the first is that all racism, prejudice and discrimination is a matter of dominant whites mistreating downtrodden members of ethnic minorities.

The second is that the ethnic minorities are a single group bound together by their experience of prejudice and discrimination.

But this is simply not the case. Last week, parts of Bradford burned during riots which - to simplify greatly - were rooted in bitter conflicts not just between Asians and whites but also between Hindus and Muslims, and within the Muslim community.

In Oldham, Asian youths were attempting to turn their rundown council estates into no-go ghettos from which whites would be excluded for fear of violence.’

Mr Chandran’s comment about ‘dominant whites mistreating downtrodden members of ethnic minorities’ is a description of neo-communism: that there are oppressed groups in society which the neo-communists seek to politicise against the oppressors (in original communism it was the oppressed working class against the bourgeoisie, now it is non-whites, homosexuals, feminists, travellers etc against western society in general and the English in particular).

David Davis is the ‘right wing’ front runner to be the new Tory leader. One shudders to think what the other so-called modernisers (ie lefties and do-gooders) are like. Once again, the Tories have demonstrated that they are not prepared to oppose either political correctness or mass immigration in principle.

For the avoidance of doubt, the English Rights Campaign believes that the CRE should be abolished.