A story in today’s Daily Mail looks like the sort of thing you’d expect to find in a BNP leaflet.
Revealed: The UK maternity units in which only 1 in 10 mothers is of white British origin
Of course there’s variation around the country – always has been, always will be.
Nationally the figures (which appear later on in the Mail article) are:
62% white British
7% other white
5% black
4% pakistani
3% indian
8% other
11% unknown
Concern about immigration is legitimate, but why is the Mail so worried about the mothers’ skin colour?
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Because their readers are ;)?
But would their readers be so worried if the Daily Mail didn’t bang on about it all the time? A bit chicken and egg, perhaps.
I’m sure I saw evidence that tabloid readers were far more worried about crime than broadsheet readers – not because of personal experience but just the incessant crime stories convincing everyone a brutal death lurked around every corner.
It’s actually because Paul Dacre is Lord Voldermort and as such, has an unhealthy obsession over who is and who isn’t a Pure-Blood.
No need to thank me.
Why ? – because it is a nasty horrible rag.
The worst thing is that its readers think it is a quality paper?
Fury at, anger at, disgust ………….count how many times an emotion is in the headline. That is what it taps into – non thinking emotion.
Check out the Daily Mail song -this is funny.
http://www.dananddan.com/?p=68
No point railing against the Daily Mail for doing what it does. The sad fact is that there’s a market out there for hate porn and if the Mail weren’t servicing it someone else would be.
As a person who is of mixed descent I find a lot of the immigrant argument usually becoming a argument of skin colour and more recently religion. Here is my story of how all these factors have come to haunt me and hopefully some of you will even sign my online petition. This is the story of children who are born to British parents abroad to both British women before 1983 and to unwed British Males before July of 2006.
After reading the telegraphs article on the 7th most of the issues began to look cynical to me!
“The news article has a sense of irony for me when I see statements such as “Tens of thousands of failed asylum seekers given right to work” dated the 7th of August 2010. I am the child of a British born mother and historically I have alway…s been discriminated against even those of the rights of my own siblings. I was born before February 7th 1961. Over the last few years because of security fears, id card laws, and also the UKBA seeking funding for their staffs salaries a variety of measures have been taken against all a specific group of children born abroad to British mothers. This group have had some rights in the past and in theory these rights still exist. They were not allowed to be automatic nationals but instead had a statutory right of the right of abode which gave them equality in status inside with UK to British citizens and the right not to be subject to immigration control and permissions. A few years ago the UKBA dreamt up a need to charge fees for these people by inventing an excuse that these people were somehow security risk. They have also had to bear the price of having to reapply for new certificates that allow them to prove their rights. Year on year these fees keep going up and the use of this method has amounted to indirectly controlling this groups right to work. So when I read your news report about asylum seekers given the right to work one cannot help by feel ironic about the fairness of Britain today.
Last year I watched very carefully the passage of the 2009 immigration bill as it was brought in January of this year. To me it heralded a long outstanding grievance as to why I was not British the same as my two younger sisters. The fact was I was older the eleven months and for that I have forever been treated differently by the UKBA and the nationality laws. It does not matter to me that thousands come in as Tier 1 workers and within five years they become naturalised British citizens, Nor does it matter to me that thousands of asylum seekers have the human right to work. It does matter to me however when I let my passport expire owing to being unemployed and ill and on benefits that I could not pay renewal fees for a new certificate that the UKBA were able to use this as an excuse to prevent me from working, even though the actual right to work has and cannot expire but apparently the evidence to do so does!
Strange as it may sound this is in effect what has been done to many of us who are the children of British mothers, often older, and have a commonwealth parent who for the most part met our mothers while living here in the uk in the 1940s and 1950s. The new law that was suppose to remove this long standing discrimination and finally came in on January the 14th 2010. I had long waited for this as I thought finally I would be able to end this long journey of discrimination that has haunted me ever since I was a sixteen year old boy. But my hopes were soon dashed when I realised we would not be treated equally with those born after 1983 or those born before but to British males. There is a charge involved, it costs £540 currently and requires my having to undergo civil and criminal check of my background and attendance of a citizenship ceremony. I was crushed how could this be the law was suppose to remove the long standing discrimination we have suffered and now I find we are still being discriminated now on the basis of our age. Together with the imposition of fees and by adapting and misrepresenting the law the UKBA have in effect established control over persons they are not suppose to be controlling.
So when I see Asylum seekers have the right to work, and ILE holders can use their expired passports to evidence their ongoing permission to work, and I cannot evidence my on going right to work inherited through my descent from a British mother I cannot help get cynical as to why we seem to be continuously be treated in this way by what is after all our own country !”
If you care for liberty and for equal rights specially for those of us who have the closest of closest blood ties with the country then please show your support by going to the petition and signing. Thanks
http://www.gopetition.co.uk/petitions/british-nationality.html
This is genuinely appalling.
So the Fail will come out in support of the BNP at the next election.
In the meantime has someone reported them for inciting racial hatred?
I recall the “Daily Mail” making a big issue of Nick Clegg’s ethnic origin, on the basis that someone of 75% Continental European descent is unfit to be UK Prime Minister.
I don’t think they raised similar objections to Michael Howard and Benjamin Disraeli, but they were Tories, so presumably that was OK.
Re: ‘why is the Mail so worried about the mothers’ skin colour?’
This is a widely held concern among white British people, particularly those who are older than [say] 40 and those who do not live in outside the conurbations. The Mail is pandering to their concerns to get them to be readers. That is what newspapers do. If you don’t know this, you need to get out a bit more and do some door knocking and meet some ordinary people.
The implication of the numbers you give are startling: in 40 years time, the native British will comprise only 62 % of those aged 40 or less.