QUOTE OF THE MONTH [bonus]

‘Political correctness has three features. First, political correctness is a set of attitudes and beliefs that are divorced from mainstream values. Second, the politically correct person has a prescriptive view on how people should think and what they are permitted to discuss. Third, and most importantly, political correctness is embedded in public institutions, which have a legislative base, and which have coercive powers. It is this third aspect that gives political correctness its authority. Without this capture of power the views of the politically correct would simply be another view in the marketplace of ideas. A person, an institution or a government is politically correct when they cease to represent the interests of the majority, and become focussed on the cares and concerns of minority sector groups.

The minority capture of public institutions by the politically correct is a basic cause of people losing faith in the institutions of government. There is a profound belief that the current government is not concerned with nurturing the fundamental values and beliefs of our society.’

And:

‘The effect of the hate speech proposal is that only politically correct speech is permissible. Under the guise of protecting minorities, we lose one of the most important values in a free society; the right to freely express one’’s opinion. The whole point of freedom of speech is that it protects opinions that one sector of society might be deeply opposed to.’

And:

‘The minority, therefore, has come to dominate the majority, which is an inherent feature of political correctness. This is not done with the intention of protecting minority rights, which is a legitimate aspect of any democracy. Instead, the intent is to ensure that minority world views take precedence over the reasonably held views of the majority.

Political correctness is a real challenge for National and other moderate centre-right parties. There is a natural abhorrence of the agenda of the politically correct, it being so rooted in leftist liberalism. Simply railing against political correctness will not do. There needs to be a clear political programme to reverse it; to remove the viewpoints and language of the politically correct from the institutions of government. Unless there is such a programme, the public who are intensely irritated about political correctness, are unlikely to believe anything will materially change, other than the most obvious examples of government silliness. There needs to be a commonsense strategy that deals with the central issue; what to do about those state institutions that foster the ideas of political correctness.

Political correctness is grounded in the capture of state institutions, with official spokespeople, legislative powers and ultimately sanctions for breach. Without these features, the attitudes and beliefs of the politically correct would be just another viewpoint in society, able to be debated and discussed in the same manner as any other set of ideas. Political correctness requires capture of state institutions by a minority so that the public institutions that deal with discrimination have now been taken over by people who are outside mainstream values.

Removing the power of the politically correct means removing their institutional and legislative base.’

Dr. Wayne Mapp, MP for Auckland’s North Shore constituency in New Zealand, speaking in June 2005.

The National Party has recently appointed Dr Mapp to a new ministerial role as Political Correctness Eradicator and he is charge with stamping out political correctness in public institutions.

An new government in England will have to carry out a similar exercise. Since the Tories were more than happy to preside over the spread of political correctness when they were last in government, they are obviously unfit for the task.

Labour have of course encouraged the spread of political correctness to an even greater extent.

That is why the English need a new political party to represent their interests. The English Democrats are that party.

If we are to rid the country of this poisonous creed then we will have to adopt firm measures to do so. This is not an issue for the faint hearted.