Ex-race tsar Trevor Phillips attacks doctrine of multiculturalism
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At last! A man who dares to tell the truth about race: Ex-race tsar says silencing of debate has done devastating harm to Britain
- Trevor Phillips is the former chairman of Commission for Racial Equality
- He has attacked 'racket' of multiculturalism sparked by Blair government
- Blamed the silencing of race issues for the Rotherham grooming scandal
- Claims we are 'more ready to offend each other' as price for free speech
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Originally Posted by Daily Mail
Britain is silencing debate on race issues by ‘intimidating’ those who dare to ask questions, according to the former equalities watchdog. In a devastating critique of a culture of misguided political correctness, Trevor Phillips said far too many people felt unable to speak their minds because they feared being branded racist.
The former chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission said that people would have to become ‘more ready to offend each other’ as the price of free speech. In a hard-hitting article ahead of a TV documentary on race issues to be aired later this week,
Mr Phillips attacked the ‘racket’ of multiculturalism which took root under Tony Blair’s government. He said:
- The inability to discuss racial issues contributed to child grooming scandals in cities such as Rotherham and Rochdale, because authorities ‘turned a blind eye’;
- Silence on racial issues led to the failure to take action to save Victoria Climbie;
- A film commissioned to warn young people of the dangers of grooming was suppressed because it featured an Asian perpetrator abusing white girls;
- He was accused of being ‘fatuous’ by senior New Labour figures when he warned of the dangers of multiculturalism;
Multiculturalism has become a ‘racket’ in many parts of the country, with self-styled community leaders battling for funds which prop up their authority and entrench segregation. Mr Phillips was for a decade the chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality and its successor, the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
However, in the same TV documentary
Tony Blair refused to admit that his decision to open the doors to EU migration in 2004 was a mistake. The former prime minister said the influx would have ‘happened anyway’ and it ‘made sense at the time’ to open our borders when France and Germany kept their controls.
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Originally Posted by Daily Mail
Last night MPs welcomed the comments from Trevor Phillips, a man who was once at the pinnacle of the politically-correct establishment. Philip Hollobone, Conservative MP for Kettering, said: ‘For once, Trevor Phillips is right. Political correctness has acted as a huge deterrent to people speaking their mind on the important issues of the day.
'The vast majority of people in Britain are not racist, but they are concerned about immigration and about crimes committed by certain sections of the community.’
Philip Davies, the Tory MP for Shipley, said: ‘I’m always grateful when a sinner repents. Some of us have been castigated for years for speaking out, and I hope the tide is turning even among those who upheld political correctness in the past.’ In his article, Mr Phillips listed a range of areas where he suggested political correct ideas and multiculturalism had made things worse.
He put the failure of people to speak out down to fact that the ‘modern secular sin of being a racist, or its religious cousin an anti-semite or Islamophobe, is by far the worst crime of which you can be accused’. Mr Phillips is a former television executive who became a Labour politician and then a front man for Tony Blair’s government as it tried to deal with ethnic and religious tensions.
However he dropped his ambitions for a political career and became head of the Commission for Racial Equality in 2003 and went on to the EHRC. He was a central figure in the retreat from multiculturalism – the left-wing doctrine which encouraged migrants to keep their own culture rather than integrate into British ways. After the 2005 London bombings he warned the country was ‘sleepwalking towards segregation’.
He earned £112,000 a year for a three-and-a-half day week at the EHRC, stepping down in 2012. In his interview with the Channel 4 documentary, Things We Can’t Say About Race That Are True, Mr Blair insisted he was prepared to argue in favour of immigration. Hundreds of thousands of Eastern Europeans came here because his government opted not to impose transitional controls 11 years ago.
The foreign secretary at the time, Jack Straw, has since conceded the policy was a ‘spectacular mistake’, while Ed Miliband has also said the party ‘got it wrong’ on immigration. Last year former Labour home secretary David Blunkett warned of increasing public fears about immigration. Tory MP Mr Davies said: ‘Tony Blair must be the only person in the country who does not think it was a mistake.’
What a remarkable turn-around by Phillips, although it is welcomed. It does appear the worm is slowly turning, as the concensus shifts towards what people like me have been saying for years and years about immigration, multiculturalism and everything that goes with it. Of course, they're years late to the party as most of the public have known these simple facts for years considering it is the public and not the scum sucking vermin politcians who have to live amongst it: it isn't their areas being changed, it isn't their schools being filled up, it isn't their hospitals struggling to cope with the numbers and people who can't speak a word of English. NOBODY asked for mass immigration.
It's no surprise that the only one left defending it is the rotten Tony Blair.
Thoughts?
