THE PAREKH REPORT [3]

‘ “The Rule Britannia mindset, given the full-blown expression at the Last Night of the Proms and until recently at the start of programming each day on BBC Radio 4, is a major part of the problem of Britain. In the same way that it continues to fight the Second World War ... Britain seems incapable of shaking off its imperialist identity. The Brits do appear to believe that “Britons never, never, never shall be slaves” ... (But) it is impossible to colonise three-fifths of the world ... without enslaving oneself. Our problem has been that Britain has never understood itself and has steadfastly refused to see and understand itself through the prism of our experience of it, here and in its coloniser mode.”

From a presentation to the Commission’

‘8.1 “Stories”, writes Ben Okri, “are the secret reservoir of values; change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves and you change the individuals and nations.” He continues: “Nations and peoples are largely the stories they feed themselves. If they tell themselves stories that are lies, they will suffer the future consequences of those lies. If they tell themselves stories that face their own truths, they will free their histories for future flowerings.” ’

[Ben Okri is a Nigerian poet and writer.]

The Parekh Report is littered with such quotes.

The Parekh Commission was very impressed with and resorted to flowery, sickly prose.

The report is further littered with silly photographs. For example, one is of a black man with his arm around a grinning elderly white lady. Both are looking at the camera. Another photograph shows a burly white man cradling a startled black baby in his arms with bottle of milk shoved in its mouth. The man is gazing away from the baby into the distance a with a silly grin on his face.

It is this kind of prose and imagery which the white lefty/liberals and do-gooders become all misty-eyed about.

The above two quotes demonstrate the report’s hostility to Britain and the determination of the Parekh Commissioners to rewrite British history and to subvert its culture.

It must not be forgotten that Labour’s response to the report was to appoint its instigator, Trevor Phillips, as chairman of the so-called Commission for Racial Equality, [other commissioners were rewarded too] and to quietly implement the report’s recommendations.

Birmingham is the city most recently paying the price of that.

It would of course never occur to the Parekh Commissioners or Labour that the British do not want a ‘future flowering’. That they might be more than happy with their history, of which they have every right to be proud. That they do not want to discard their culture. That the British Empire was a force for good. And that the British are fed up with having to endure a never-ending tide of politically correct, neo-communist drivel.

If some Nigerian poet does not like Britain, then let him return to Nigeria. The Parekh Commissioners, irrespective of their background, can join him!

[The English Rights Campaign is perfectly capable of being inclusive.]

In examining the report there will be some repetition and overlap. This is inevitable. Especially at the beginning of the report, almost every sentence of every paragraph is an attack upon Britain in general, and England in particular.

Nevertheless, the English Rights Campaign will undertake a very full examination of the report’s rationale.