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What George Orwell predicted
Capital punishment for treason should be reinstated
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HOW THE GOVERNMENT HAS DECLARED WAR ON WHITE ENGLISH PEOPLE
VALID POINT: George Orwell
Thursday August 9,2007
By Leo McKinstry
Just when you thought the UK's a nice White place to flee to
England 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
Constab-ulary 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 (Red Ken N.M.) last
month 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.