Is it really racist to want an English-speaking cab driver?

C Cole

Great article. Reading the conclusion, one feels that "muntjac" would be a good shorthand for the sort of people - or should that be "sheeple"? Sorry - who take such immense, self-righteous pleasure in bleating that someone or something is "raaaaacccissst" on the slightest pretext. So slight, in fact, that on closer examination there turns out to be no rational pretext whatever for their no doubt heartfelt cries.

Jez

It's too late Rod.

The runnaway train is going to hit those buffers i reckon.

Most things revolutionary that have been given to us via the educated minority of the class of 68' has been proven to be shaky at the best and outright crap at the worst.

Architecture, foreign policy regarding Africa especially (Zimbabwe?), Industrial neglect, subversion of culture / heritage / tradition..

-then there's this multicultural thing.

Irreversable- and with an infinate social ripple effect.

david smith 1

I asked an indignant middle aged liberal exactly what was racist about saying English spoken here. Cue more blustering indignation and a final cry of " I am not racist!"
No logical argument. Just unreason and blind emotion. There really is no hope any more. They are all raving mad.

Alfred the OK

It's all too late. As per usual, the total over reaction by the hand-wringers has lead to more marginalisation of the white indigenous population, and given yet another open goal to the BNP.

C Cole

@ david smith 1

That's why the result of the next general election is potentially so important. I understand why you say there's no hope, but if there's ever going to be a cultural shift away from the idiocies of the New Labour era it has to be reflected in the country at large turning away from the Harpersons of this world and towards something more sensible and realistic. As other commentators have pointed out, Cameron and Co can't afford to debate Broon and Co on their own terms - they have to signal to the electorate that theirs is a different approach altogether. The problem with that, of course, is that Labour has spent its years in power building up a huge client state at taxpayers' expense. But there are a lot of people out there waiting for the Tories to send out the right signals.

OldS.B.

I actually resent being in a cab where all the radio/phone conversations are in some foreign tongue. IF I were paranoid, I could imagine that an ambush was being laid for me.... But simply as an Army pensioner, and OAP, I do feel extremely uncomfortable with it. I have no argument with the US insistence that 'If you want to live and work here, you speak our tongue!' Why should a patient in one of our hospitals be able to require an interpretor for doctors' rounds? Or for any other dealings with local or national authorities? And NO, I have never, nor will I be, a member or voter/supporter of the BNP. Just an old Englishman - and proud to be so!

Geoff Miller

For too long now the cry of "racist" has been a form of Mace. Spray the word around and everyone falls down. Discussion over.

It has been used to provide cover for mass migration, multiculturalism, Islamic Jihad, the breakdown of British society and the oppression of the indigenous British.

Its effectiveness is now greatly diminished as are the ad hominem insults thrown at BNP members as being Neanderthals, thugs, nazis etc. that people like Liddle must utter in order to keep their bosses sweet - and their jobs.

The British working class, and many in the middle class, have had enough. More than enough. Now we are getting angry.

It's BNP for me - no matter what you call me. There is NO other party that represents the British people.

It is the ONLY honest political party in the UK. Other parties are either stuffed with Marxists (and we all know about the millions who died in Marxist genocides in the last century) or global capitalists who think we are all just "economic units". That is when they aren't busy fiddling their expenses, taking backhanders or engaged in postal voting fraud, gerrymandering and spin.

And that is the REAL scandal!

stephen maybery

Racism is the designer sin of choice amongst the metropolitan elite. And on this topic the elite are as ignorant of the facts as they are on most other things. All societies are racist to one degree or another, and I should know as I have lived amongst enough of them. Racism is a natural facit of the human condition and can no more be legislated against than one can pass laws benning flatulence, though Harriet Harman would probably give it a go.

Philip, London

Last time I got into a cab at Balham (from an offfice known affectionately by myself and friends as 'Taliban Taxis' - you'll know why if you know it), I got a lecture from the driver on how the Government 'shouldn't be spending all the bloody money on the Afghanistan, innit?'.

By the time he managed to get me home (I ended up providing the directions eventually, after his GPS gave up the ghost) it felt like I'd been on a trip to the Kandahar Valley and back, not to the top of Streatham Hill.

A. MacAulay

If a taxi driver could earn enough to buy a house, start a family and put the kids through school and go on holiday abroad at least once a year, then foreigners wouldn't have a chance, would they?

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