The BNP have changed their constitution to allow “non-indigenous Britons” to join, but now it is being claimed that their new rules “indirectly” discriminate against black and Asian people:

[P]rospective members had to sign up to principles including a duty to oppose the promotion of any form of “integration or assimilation” that impacted on the “indigenous British”, and a requirement to support the “maintenance and existence of the unity and integrity of the indigenous British”.

So what precisely are the BNP doing? Oh, yes, asking their members to sign up to their …

The government is driving white working class people towards the BNP, says a report from think tank IPPR:

We have to stop reducing the complexity of people’s lives to simplistic tick boxes. They tell us less than ever about who people are, what lives they lead, or what services they need. Equality campaigners need to realise that mobilising around fixed group identities is alien to a new generation more used to facebook groups and flash mobs. We need new ways of thinking and talking about equalities in the 21st century.
Not only …

Huh? How does that make sense? Well, I don’t know whether this idiocy is coming from the Telegraph or John Denham, but this is a headline today:

How can racism amongst white supremacists be “getting worse”? Surely if you’re a white supremacist, being racist is pretty much a foregone conclusion?
Racism amongst white supremacists can’t be rising; to be a whoite supremacist, you must also be racist. The number of white supremacists may be rising, and hence an increase in the number of racists, but racism can’t really “get worse” in a …

There is an article on the BNP website attempting to answer the question is the BNP racist and justify the British National Party’s position.

It is a curious article, because it does not attempt to show that the BNP is NOT racist. Rather the argument is that organisations concerned with one community or race – and the British National Party piece lists fully 32 of them – must themselves be the placed in the same category as the BNP, and are therefore racist for anyone who wishes to describe the BNP as such.

This article is a response to that attempted argument.

Now that Barack Obama has become US President, media attention seems to be turning to ethnic minorities in British politics, starting with Parliament not being a mirror image of society and now focusing on government office, specifically that of the Prime Minister.
It is claimed that it will take “decades” for there to be a black PM. Why? Because there is only a small number of elected offices in the UK in which minority candidates can get elected to. Which actually makes no sense – surely if that were the case, …

It’s official: Trevor Phillips really is a cock, and has an immeasurably discriminatory view of society and democracy. He thinks that democracy is only democratic if it achieves an electoral result that mirrors society:

The Commission starts from the position that a Parliament which reflects the make-up of the nation it represents will result in better legislation and a higher degree of public confidence in the democratic process.
There needs to be people inside this House… who actually know what it means to be disabled, there needs to be more people who …

Am I the only who just can’t stand the ever-so-smug Trevor Phillips? He just constantly annoys me, popping up and declaring [or clearing ] any institution he chooses as effectively racist, seemingly just because he can.
His latest victim? The House of Commons, which he declares “an outstanding example of racial, gender and disability exclusion”.
Whilst the Commons may be “white, straight and male,” that is hardly a problem in and of itself. Parliament does not need to be a mirror image of society in order to represent it properly. What it …

I just don’t get this whole story about Prince Harry using so-called “racist” and “offensive” language. What did he do? Refer to a colleague and friend as “Paki”, which appears to have been his nickname, and then to another as “raghead”.
Oh so offensive! Not.
Harry made the remarks within a specific context – that of an army camp. They were not offensive to the individuals concerned, so why do the media and politicians feel the need to jump in and condemn him? They haven’t fought in Iraq, they haven’t been in …

The National Black Police Association invited the wrong David Davis to speak at their conference. They had wanted former shadow home secretary David Davis, but instead invited David Davies, another Conservative MP with an interest in law and order (being a member of the home affairs select committee and a special constable).
And a speech they didn’t expect to receive:

To me, it’s a shame membership of the NBPA is open only to those of black, Asian or Middle Eastern origin.
It could be argued that this is explictly racist, in that it …

No matter what particular socio-economic group you refer to, positive discrimination still isn’t a good thing. Whether it is ethnic minorities, women, or the white working-class. Or any other.
Trevor Phillips is saying that:

What we are seeing is that there is a whole group of people, a large proportion of whom are white, who are going to suffer from this crisis who are going to be the people we should want to help, particularly because they come from the wrong side of town.
We are going to have to do something special …