Sometimes I am as amazed that there are so many conservative demands for perpetuating the old detrimental features of a Labour Government and so much support for a London Mayor with identical Livingstone policies which have run this country into the ground. Some of the people who run this City and advise Ken Livingstone would not be happy until the whole shop is run by the British Ayatollah. It is undemocratic.
Let us look at the Mayor’s appointment of a race adviser (whilst not forgetting these deplorable social cohesion programmes which actually destroy the cohesion of this nation). This has already been raised on ConservativeHome. Does London need one? Are we (we, being the British people) not all equal before the one law (the one law being UK law) – or do we need some leftie race adviser telling us that some groups, because of their race or colour, are entitled to different social rights and should be treated differently from another racial group?
It has worked its way out into the public recently in the rather honest realisations of the Director of the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) – it really means that the inventions of race relations advisers and the CRE itself is inherently unequal and has always meant that nothing more than inverted racism. I think it goes hand in hand with implementing the dubious human rights legislation (the HRA 1998 which David Cameron I think said he would repeal?), since this is the measure which has taken this country a few hundred years back in time. Real democracy is not about equality in everything or intensive governance of specific religious or cultural groups as some seem to suggest, but merely equal treatment by the authorities and the equal application of the one British law.
My message to Boris: get a grip. Save the money with the social cohesion multiculturalism-gone-mad bunch. Find a way to return it to the taxpayer. These advisers have always just been looking for cushy Government advisory jobs and there will always be groups begging for recognition and special treatment by the state. To accord such special treatment, as Livingstone has done, is to destroy the soul of Government and further jeopardise the trust that Londoners have in the law and their Parliament.
