RACE WAR POLITICS

James Purnell, the Work and Pensions Secretary, has announced in a speech to Labour’s Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic annual general meeting in Leicester plans for the so-called Equalities and Human Rights Commission to assess how unemployment is affecting ethnic minorities, women, the disabled and older workers, and to recommend what actions the government should take.

Mr Purnell pointed out that in previous recessions unemployment has risen faster amongst ethnic minorities:

‘In the past, too many were left behind in bad times. Ethnic minority workers suffered the most in the Tory recessions. Employment levels amongst ethnic minority workers fell by 10 percentage points in the 1990s recession - much worse than the rest of the country.

Just think of the waste of human potential. Whole communities were abandoned, families where no one then worked for generations.’

Mr Purnell said that Trevor Phillips had agreed to assess whether any groups were being disproportionately affected by the recession:

‘When we identify particular problems, we will know we need to adapt our policies to make sure no one is left behind this time.’

Since when the so-called Equalities and Human Rights Commission, or the communist Trevor Phillips, has been qualified to set economic policy is unexplained. Once again, Labour are trying to portray certain favoured groups as victims.

This is yet another example of anti-English discrimination in England.