RACISM ON THE RISE IN UK - REPORT

British Social Attitudes survey finds proportion of people in the UK who say they are racially prejudiced has risen since 2001

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/may/27/-sp-racism-on-rise-in-britain

Thanks, LL - not a happy report, sadly. IMO, a lot of it has been deliberately whipped up by certain newspapers, with front page after front page of sensationalist headlines about Romanians stealing jobs/refugees getting free council houses/muslims taking over schools/Poles wrecking the NHS, etc.

Just this morning we had:



It's not the brightest idea ever, but the cause of it isn't addressed, instead the families exploiting the loophole are scapegoated. As if the people so outraged wouldn't do exactly the same if they could - and I can't be bothered with faux outrage from MPs, when they have their noses so firmly stuck in the public money trough.

I cannot condone racial or religious prejudice in any shape or form, after all I have a S Korean son-in-law. Over here we have the extreme right party, Jobbik, targetting the Roma, mant of whom are killed or victimised in the matters of housing and education. Racism is inbuilt in most of Europe, At least we now know how UKIP managed to win, they are violently anti-immigration and many of the mambers came originally from the BNP. Just had a thought, wassn't Bennett a UKIP member, kind of a 'top functionary" at least in his warped mind? LL

He was thrown out of UKIP for extremism, LL.   

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Bennett_(politician)

A Eurosceptic, Bennett was a member of The Drive the Flag campaign founded by Leeds businessman Peter Rogers, to allow national flags on vehicle number plates, in the face of proposed government legislation which would have only allowed the European Union (EU) symbol on the number plates.[11] In December 2001, the Government announced that it planned to permit the display of the Union flag as well as the national flags of England, Scotland and Wales vehicle numberplates in the UK.[12] This was implemented on 27 April 2009 with the caveat that drivers who chose to take advantage of this dispensation need to display a "GB sticker" on their vehicles when driving abroad.[13]

In early 2002, he was banned from holding office in the party in 2004 after he privately circulated a pamphlet in which he called the prophet Muhammad a paedophile for having consummated his marriage to his child bride Aisha when she was nine years old, which Bennett stated would have been prosecuted today as a case of child sexual abuse. The pamphlet also warned of the probable rise of militant Islam in the UK, which were later claimed to be part of a "reasoned, academic exposition" aimed at explaining the reasons behind the 11 September terrorist attacks. UKIP described Bennett as "an energetic campaigner, with some extremely eccentric and individualistic views".[14]

On 15 August 2004, Bennett began work as Robert Kilroy-Silk's researcher and became a founder member of the Veritas Party in January 2005. In February 2005, however, Bennett was involved in controversy when it was revealed that he had previously co-founded the People's Campaign to Keep the Pound with Ian Anderson, a former chairman of the far right, white nationalist party, the National Front.[14] Bennett denied any knowledge of Anderson being chairman of the National Front at the time the two men formed the campaign, describing Anderson as an "English patriot".[14]

Being expelled from that lot for being 'eccentric' is rather like being sacked from the Gestapo for cruelty.