Chris Dillow asks the question.
Is John Reid a moron or a racist? I ask because of this:
We joined this party because we wanted to see a more equal and just society, where people are no longer held back by the accident of birth…
I’m putting fairness at the heart of everything we’re doing in the Home Office.
That’s why I favour tighter immigration controls.
Well, he could be both or neither, but being in favour of tighter immigration controls is not an indication of racism. I do wish people would stop equating immigration control with racism. Immigration control is about restricting entry to the country – race has bugger all to do with it.
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Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely.
It’s not racist to support immigration controls. I was merely saying that it is racist to believe that the British have more rights than others, or that fairness and equality apply only to them. This is what Reid appeared to be doing. To answer my own question, it’s because he’s a moron.
Actually, it’s not racist to believe that British have more rights than others; that’s nationalism. Again, race plays no part.
I’d agree with you on the moron comment, though.
May the Lord protect and deliver us from John Reid. Moron is putting it mildly. Remember he told us that our troops in Afghanistan would be home “without firing a shot”.
Yes. That’s almost as bad as “it’ll all be over by Christmas”.
I agree with what you’ve written Longrider. Unfortunately nowadays anyone who mentions the words ‘immigration’ and ‘control’ in the same sentence gets lumped into the racist bracket. I can remember watching This Week earlier in the year and someone came on and mentioned that we do need to curb the amount of people coming into the country and Diane Abbott mentioned that it could be construed as a racist comment and in the next sentence mentioned Enoch Powell and the ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech. I know a lot of politicians say on one hand they love living in a multicultural scoiety and on the other how they favour tighter controls on immigration and they are then heckled and find themselves almost apologising for what they said but I don’t see a contradiction. I love living in a country where there is diversity but I would like to see tighter immigration controls and considering we have 300,000+ people in the country who are here illegally, that’s no bad thing.