You probably saw it yourself on TV: 500
screaming East Indians hurling Molotov
cocktails at the police, some of whom
were running away with their clothes on
fire. Pubs smashed up, cars turned over
and burnt, Whites frightened for their
lives.
It was the second night of race
rioting in Oldham, near Manchester,
England, and the worst seen since the
mid-1980s. But it gave me an inverted
smile. Haroon Siddiqui, described as the
Toronto Star's editor emeritus, had
recently written a piece about the U.K.
headed, "Blair leading Britain to
multicultural chic."
He meant Tony Blair, the prime
minister for whom no ethnic bum is too
low to kiss. Not that he is alone.
During the current election campaign,
every party leader has been at pains to
denounce "racism", by which is
meant any comment that disputes the joys
of multicult.
It is true that Tory leader William
Hague had stated that the never-ceasing
flood of refugees could convert Britain
into a foreign land, but he immediately
denounced one of his MPs who said that
immigration was destroying traditional
Britain and that the British were
becoming a mongrel race. And Hague had
told Asians in Bradford, another
immigrant-thick city in which there had
been loud murmurs of discontent, that
everyone was welcome in the Conservative
Party.
A poll taken last October, however,
showed that two-thirds of British adults
believe that there are too many
immigrants in the country. Not that
anyone takes any notice of them. They
are only "the people", whom
the politicians claim to represent but
who can safely be ignored, just like in
Canada.
- Enoch Powell
Oldham itself could not be ignored.
It recalled the speech Enoch Powell mad
in the 1960s in which he predicted that
rivers of blood would flow if
immigration policies continued unchecked
—. a speech that got him fired from
Tory leader Edward Heath's cabinet.
There were the usual hints in the
press that name-calling and
discrimination were responsible for what
the rioters did. And the mayor of
Oldham, concerned perhaps for his own
safety, claimed with others that
"extremists" ( meaning members
of the small British National Party,
which is anti-immigration ) had a part
in what happened.
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But it wasn't the BNP
that set Oldham on fire, and the rioters
could hardly be metamorphosed into
Whites.
Extremism? It was politicians,
beginning with the post-war Labor Party,
that embraced extremist policies by
letting the world into Britain. As in
Canada, everyone is "equal",
whether they are terrorists from Sri
Lanka or blacks in the great democracy
of Haiti.
A
search of comments in the British press
yielded not a single admission that the
immigration policy was a disaster or
that Britain had had enough. The
Independent said that what was needed
was public investment in the social
infrastructure. In other words,
immigrants who think they are hard done
by should in one way or another have
more money thrown at them.
The Times played the same fiddle.
Don't worry, it said in effect. What
happened in Oldham was not typical. Give
these people more jobs and better
schools. That would make them immune
from "the poisonous incitements of
racists and extremists".
The riots, plus the creation of
"no-go" areas and vicious
attacks on elderly Whites in Oldham are
presumably not poisonous or racist. In
The Times' view, obviously, only Whites
can be that way. But it would be
interesting to see whether the editor of
The Times would change his mind if he
had been having a drink in the
ironically-named Live and Let Live pub
in Oldham, one of the many that were
trashed and their customers beaten up by
the rioters.
He does not seem to be concerned,
either, that according to police
reports, 70 per cent of racial attacks
in Oldham over the past eight years have
been against Whites, a figure that is
even more significant considering the
lower number of East Indians resident
there.
A few common-sense voices have been
heard. Lord Tebbit, the former Tory
chairman, has stated that Oldham has
once again demonstrated that
multicultural societies do not work. In
The Spectator magazine, the celebrated
author and certainly non-racist Paul
Johnson stated before the riots:
"I weep for Old England being
hustled unceremoniously off the
stage...by a succession of misfortunes,
crass changes, and an invasion across
our White Walls on a scale unknown since
the English themselves came in the 5th
and 6th centuries."
Blair & Co. say that the British
are no longer a nation, never have been,
and that they must now be careful of the
language they use when talking about
immigration. Similarly, we in Canada
were told by Madame Feinstein, I think
it was, that there is no such thing as a
Canadian culture.
Such is the creed of the
multicultists. No wonder Blair got such
a good reception when he visited Ottawa.
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