THE BRITISH INQUISITION

I cross ocean poor and broke
Take bus, see employment folk.
Nice man treat me good in there
Say I need to see welfare.
Welfare say, ‘You come no more,
We send you cash right to your door.’
Welfare cheques – they make you wealthy!
NHS – it keep you healthy!
By and by, I got plenty money
Thanks to you, British dummy!
Write to friends in motherland
Tell them ‘come fast as you can.’
They come in turbans and Ford trucks.
I buy big house with welfare bucks!
They come here, we live together.
More welfare cheques, it gets better!
Fourteen families, they moving in
But neighbour’s patience wearing thin.
Finally, white guy moves away,
Now I buy his house, then I say,
‘Find more aliens for house to rent’
And in the yard I put a tent.
Everything is very good,
And soon we own the neighbourhood.
We have hobby, it’s called breeding.
Welfare pay for baby feeding.
Kids need dentist? Wife need pills?
We get free! We got no bills!
Britain crazy! They pay all year
To keep welfare running here.
We think UK darn good place.
Too darn good for the white man race!
If they no like us, they can scram.
Got lots of room in Pakistan!

The above spoof poem has led to Ellenor Bland, a Tory councillor on the Calne Town Council in Wiltshire, being reported to the so-called Commission for Racial Equality [CRE].

Dave Cameron’s response has been to remove her from the Tory Party’s list of candidates and suspend her from the party.

The poem also appears on a far-right website. It also includes a cartoon of the white cliffs of Dover with the words ‘piss off – we’re full’ scrawled across them.

Mrs Bland was reported to the CRE by the Liberal Democrats. The CRE are currently investigating the complaint.

Mrs Bland did not write the poem. She has been referred to the CRE for allegedly forwarding on an email of the poem. Mrs Bland denies doing this and claims it was her husband who was responsible for forwarding on the email.

Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat chairman of campaigns, said:

‘It is totally unacceptable for elected representatives to be distributing this kind of material. If David Cameron wants to retain any credibility he must take the strongest possible action. Despite his best PR efforts the Conservative Party clearly continues to contain some deeply unpleasant elements.’

At one stage the poem has been posted on the internet chat room of the Tory MP Boris Johnson, who has commented:

‘It’s an utterly dreadful poem and I condemn it unreservedly.’

A senior Tory official said:

‘We do not think this is lighthearted and are treating it very seriously. We dissociate ourselves entirely from the sentiments expressed in this poem.’

Mrs Bland said:

‘It was forwarded on by my husband, who took it in the form that he thought it was sent and that was a lighthearted view, which, again, anybody broadly thinking would not have made anything out of it, as has been made to be at this present time … We have Asian friends and we work well together and all accept each other’s different ways. I have always embraced anybody who comes to our country with a skill.

Anybody who can put anything into the country is fantastic.’

If the Tories wish to wallow in political correctness, then that is a matter for them. Their self-righteousness merely demonstrates that they are a part of the problem rather than a solution to the PC onslaught afflicting Britain.

But why should something so trivial be the concern of the CRE? That the Liberal Democrats would seek to criminalise a joke is typical.

The CRE is a nasty little quango which does little other than promote race war politics. It is wholly unfit to pass judgement on others.

Furthermore, in a public meeting in January 2005, Trevor Phillips, the chairman of the CRE [and former Parekh commissioner], made the following comments in a speech:

‘I was struck by The Guardian’s write-up of today’s announcement – calling this a Government crackdown – I like that. I also welcome the fact that the CRE will have general oversight of government progress in tackling racial inequalities.

All this talk of targets is very pertinent as I am currently reading Joseph Stalin’s biography, where he says that “there will be no deviation from targets”. Now, he had a very definite way of guaranteeing targets were reached. Fiona [Mactaggart], we haven’t yet discussed legal powers to shoot permanent secretaries who miss their targets but I guess that might be our next order of business.’

The English Rights Campaign did not make a fuss over these remarks, even though they are in exceptionally bad taste. It was simply a quiet joke between socialists.

But the fact remains that somewhere between 25-50 million died in Stalin’s purges, pogroms, gulags and organised mass famines. The slaughter was so great that a true number of those who were killed cannot be estimated to even the nearest 10million. These were ordinary people for whom there were no funerals or gravestones. They were bulldozed into mass graves or their bodies burnt.

And now we cannot be sure whether they even existed.

The communist revolution in Russia was dependent upon the slave labour of the gulag system, where the victims were worked to death. This is communism in practice.

And Trevor Phillips treats it as a joke.

No one objected to Mr Phillips’s remarks at all. The Tories were silent. Soon Mr Phillips will be in charge of Labour’s new human rights superquango.

That appointment is exceptionally offensive.

Whatever views one might take of this poem [and the English Rights Campaign sees it as being quite funny], no one has been killed.

That the Liberal Democrats are referring a spoof poem to the CRE says all that needs to be said about them.