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HOW OUR
MARXIST GOVERNMENT HAS DECLARED WAR ON WHITE ENGLISH PEOPLE!
Britain is in the middle of a profoundly
disturbing social experiment. For the first time in a mature democracy,
a Government is waging a campaign of aggressive discrimination against
its indigenous population.
In the name of cultural diversity, Labour attacks anything
that smacks of Englishness. The mainstream public are treated with
contempt, their rights ignored, their history trashed. In their own
land, the English are being turned into second-class citizens.
This trend was highlighted this week by the case of Abigail Howarth, a
bright teenager who applied for a training position with the
Environment Agency in East Anglia but was turned down because she was
too white and English. The post, which carries a £13,000 grant,
was open only to ethnic minorities, including the Scots, Welsh and
Irish.
Such social engineering was justified by the Agency on the grounds that
minorities were under-represented in its workforce, the parrot cry used
by bureaucrats throughout the public sector to justify bias against the
English.
Though Abigail’s case rightly caused outrage, it was not unique. This
kind of reverse discrimination is now rife across the state machine,
underwritten by the very English taxpayers who are the targets of
institutional prejudice.
Although it is technically illegal to restrict jobs to certain ethnic
groups, the racially fixated commissars have found a way round that
problem by developing training schemes open only to minorities. Under
the 1976 Race Relations Act it is permissible to use racial
considerations in recruitment to trainee positions such as the one to
which Abigail applied.
Such practices are dressed up as “positive action” to widen diversity
and, in the words of one Labour council, “to overcome past
discrimination”. So HM Revenue and Customs offers work experience jobs,
worth up to £15,900 a year pro-rata, to ethnic minority
graduates, while the Museums Association has two-year ethnic minority
apprenticeships.
Similarly,
Birmingham City Council gives £16,000 a year to “black and
minority ethnic individuals” in its “Positive Action Traineeship
Scheme”, and a £10,000 allowance to clerical trainees from “the
Bangladeshi and Pakistani communities”.
Discriminatory training schemes can also be found in ITV, the civil
service and the NHS, which boasts “a management development programme
specifically designed and tailored to the needs of black and
minority ethnic midwives”.
It was revealed last year that Avon and Somerset Constabulary rejected
186 applications from White men on the grounds that they were already
“over-represented” in the force. In the same way, London Mayor Ken
Livingstone refused to endorse a series of nominations for the London
Fire Authority because they were dominated by Whites.
And whole towns are beginning to suffer state disapproval. Eighty
administrative jobs in the Prison Service have recently been
transferred from Corby in Northamptonshire to Leicester because, as the
Home Office admitted, Corby’s population is predominantly “white
British”, a terrible sin in our multicultural society.
It is a bitter irony that the Labour Government, which
works itself into such a synthetic rage over racial prejudice, should
practise overt discrimination on an epic scale. The remorseless focus
on supporting minorities has led to a perverted ideology of anti-white
racism.
Almost every interaction with any public service now leads to a
detailed analysis of one’s ethnic status. A vast race equality industry
has been built up, filled with overpaid paper shufflers, consultants
and advisers with little to do except invent new grievances.
There is an air of the Maoist permanent revolution about their
activities. Since immigration now runs at probably one
million people a year, the make-up of society is changing
dramatically. So, in this climate of endless demographic upheaval, the
race relations brigade will always be able to invent more work for
itself.
Yet anti-English discrimination undermines the central plank of the
propaganda for mass immigration. We are constantly told we need vast
influxes of foreigners to boost our economy and fill vacancies but
unemployment levels in immigrant communities are so high and
skills so lacking that we need to reserve parts of our economy for them.
So if we have to spend a fortune on training schemes, why are we
inviting hundreds of thousands of arrivals from the
Third World and Eastern Europe here every year?
Economics have little to do with the issue. The Left in Britain have
seized on mass immigration and multiculturalism as a battering ram to
destroy the society they despise. They once sought to change our
country through economic revolution. That failed with the Winter of
Discontent and the downfall of communism. But demographic change
through migration has proved far more damaging.
George Orwell once wrote: “England is perhaps the only great country
whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In
Left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly
disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at
every English institution.”
That is now precisely the mentality that predominates within the
machinery of the British state. And our country is dying as a result.
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