Oh, he’s going to be in big trouble…
Attorney General Dominic Grieve has said politicians need to “wake up” to the issue of corruption in some minority communities.
Mr Grieve told the Daily Telegraph it was not restricted to “any one community” but he was referring mainly to “the Pakistani community”.
He said it must be made “absolutely clear” that a “favour culture” is unacceptable in Britain.
I think a few extra bags of popcorn will be in order. Has he run this past the PC crowd over at the Guardian? I can’t believe they will have given approval There will be much choking and spluttering over the all-bran and lactose-free milk this morning…
The one thing the PC crowd really, really don’t like is inconvenient truths. That is; inconvenient truths being spoken out loud. You see, that is raaaaaciiist! And, having spoken the truth, Grieve is now going to be labelled a racist and there will be the usual calls for him to apologise for causing “offence” and then calls for him to resign, for causing “offence” because these days, skins are so thin, that someone telling it like it is, is well… “unacceptable.”
One Pakistan-born MP accused Mr Grieve of “dividing” communities.
Well, yes, the predictable response from one such grievance-monger. Don’t bother to acknowledge the point being made, build a strawman. Expect a few of those in the next few days.
Oh, my, this one is likely to run and run…
I’m sure you’re right and there will doubtless be an undignified scramble to jump on the grievance (no pun intended!) bandwaggon.
Looking at it objectively, it must be very confusing for someone from a dramatically different culture living in the UK; one minute it’s all ‘celebrating our differences’ in a vibrant, multicultural community, the next they’re down on you like a ton of bricks for the sort of things you would do back home, like beating your teenage daughters for immodesty or slipping someone a wad of cash to get your useless nephew a job (both of which, incidentally, would have been normal practice in Ancient Rome, say, or even Elizabethan England; we have moved on, yet it’s frowned on to describe societies that still do it as ‘backward’).
Interestingly, it’s not all that long since a member of a different ethnic group raised a similar issue of incompatible values in the unlikely context of his own trial defence:
It was the defendant’s argument that loans made without formal documents or involving large amounts of cash was not regarded as unusual in business dealings in northern Cyprus and Turkey. He also said that the business practices considered to be the norm in western society were not necessarily appropriate in northern Cyprus and Turkey, where the culture was very different.
(Serious Fraud Office Press release: Asil Nadir found guilty)
Dominic Grieve’s comments are unfortunate.
Law is equal for everyone. if someone has broken the law, punish them, do not punish the whole community. http://real-politique.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/british-pakistanis-are-corrupt-dominic.html
I don’t know what English dictionary you are using, but mine certainly does not equate “making comments” to “punishment”. No one has been punished. What Grieve has done, is point out the correlation between electoral fraud and certain enclaves – which is a matter of record. His comments may appear unfortunate. They are, however, accurate.
Address that and we might be able to have a conversation. As it is, your blog post is nothing more than a series of logical fallacies – the strawman and tu quoque being the predominant ones, so not worth responding to.