Black Britain Decides

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.obv.org.uk...ew&id=1553&Itemid=156

So we now have two shadow chancellors along with Labour's Deputy Leader Harriet Harman attending a meeting primarily aimed at only a small percentage of the British public, entitled "Black Britain Decides"

Why the need for black persons to have their own political meetings? They are not barred from national political meetings..

Would it be allowed for Whites to conduct their own meetings entitled "White Britain Decides"?

[Kromovaracun]

But you're not one of them - "who cares how black people want to vote,,its the majority that decides ! "

If the majority are tolerant, does that make you a minority too, then?

[anotheoldgit]

/// People quite regularly express criticism of immigration policy - you see it quite a lot. Perhaps not as extensively as you do, but they certainly do it. ///

Are yes, but it has only become acceptable to criticise immigration when appertaining to Eastern European immigrants.

In fact some of the loudest voices against the influx of Eastern Europeans come from pre European Community days immigrants.

Yet when we criticised their coming to this country with similar vigour, we were branded racists, and laws were changed so as to stifle our protests.

[Kromovaracun]

"Are yes, but it has only become acceptable to criticise immigration when appertaining to Eastern European immigrants. "

That'll be because that's where most of our immigration comes from, if I remember right (though I'm willing to be corrected on this - it's been a while since I checked up on the issue). So if you're going to discuss contemporary immigration it kind of makes sense.

"Yet when we criticised their coming to this country with similar vigour, we were branded racists, and laws were changed so as to stifle our protests."

This is the same freedom of speech argument you've made before - you're always railing against them and so far you haven't been arrested. Ditto for Mail/Express/Sun journalists who always complain about it quite freely in some of the nation's biggest-circulation newspapers. I can't provide supporting evidence for this due to my stoopid memory but I'm also 95% sure there's been numerous dispatch programs on non-EU migrants over the years.

I think you're confusing the fact that a fair few people (including myself) think your claims are over-exaggerated/overblown with 'stifling'.