Couple of thoughts re the above.

I can understand people’s scepticism about the claim that we are all racist, but it seems to me that what the author is actually proposing is that we are all scared of the unknown. This is pretty obviously true. The only way to arrest one’s natural tendancies in this direction is to establish a metaphysic which comprehands the strange en masse. various religious system’s have achieved this in the past with regards to death, but generally it stands that we are just shit scared of stuff we don’t understand, and i would suggest that that is a not unreasonable position.
The solution, however, is to enlarge your understanding, not to react to the mysterious with preemptive violence.
I haven’t seen a leading polititian display political integrity in my lifetime, so i am disinclined to vote for any of them (although as a keen suporter of democracy and the open society, I will have to choose the least objectionable at some point soon). however, i would love to see a few of them actually trying to open debate on these issues. wider scrutiny is needed, open and accountable to the people of this country. Not just abusive and entrenched mud slinging.
The fact that the latter tends to make up most of our political discourse is, i fear, the result of the rise of television, a medium that favours visual metaphor and soundbites by its very nature. When that is the dominant method of information distribution, open and involved debate will always give way to political graffitti.
On a less general note, I am not deepy conversant with the life and thoughts of Mr Mosely, but i understand that his general gist was that if you mix up a whole bunch of worldviews with radically different founding principles, sooner or later there will be a punch up. Relevant possibly, considering recent ‘demonstrations’ regarding dutch cartoonists.
My political philosophy; i am prepared to listen to and evaluate the words of anyone, whether you wish to label them ‘fachist scum, ‘commie bastards’, ‘reactionaries’, whatever form of bigotory floats your boat. What an individual brings to the debate should not be mediated by your or my opinion of who that individual is. The ones that really frighten me are the ones who won’t enter he debate at all (it’s that unknown quantity thing again).

bye.

The Conservative party will accept the most needed economic migrants over those less needed. There will be a limit as it would be damaging to the country if more were accepted than can be coped with.

It is not at all racist to impose limits on immigration.

There may or may not be any ‘white ghettos’ (though I’ve seen places that look pretty fucked up in Manchester and London myself, race not being an issue) but ghettos are about poverty, not race.

However, many ethnic minorities in this country are of a much greater proportion in the poorer section of the population than the richer, I believe.

Anyway, immigration is a non-issue - I’m with Helen on that one. If Croydon’s fucked up it’s because it’s a fucked up area, not because of immigration.

Possibly because an area with that much capital isn’t a ghetto, but a province?

I don’t know. I’m just guessing. You tell me. After all, I wouldn’t want to shoot my mouth off without reason or prior consideration, would I?