4um: Nick Griffin defends BNP leaflet that says black and Asian Britons 'do not exist'

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If the estimates are to be believed, our tiny island will soon be packed tighter than the crotch in Terry Wogan's slacks. Seventy-seven million of us by 2051 apparently. Time to buy shares in loft conversion firms. Or at least buy a hard-hat for all the flak this scenario will unleash.

Forget the fact that this is just guesswork based on the freakish immigration-flow from Eastern Europe over the past few years.

That medical advances will make us live much longer and be fertile much later. Or that if people are still leaving their homeland to graft here in 30 years, it's good news because it means our economy will still be expanding, and those new workers will be paying taxes to keep all of us 110-year-olds in pensions. Forget that, because we know how these figures will be used...

As vindication by right-wing doom-mongers for their claims that immigration is an evil which has dragged us to our knees. That we have enough foreign parasites swamping our green and pleasant land, and leeching off our welfare state. And more of them, on the scale predicted will sink the British nation into oblivion.

They're right in one respect. Immigration has to be controlled. Too many communities feel their traditional culture is being stolen by too many new arrivals.

Chief Rabbi: Multiculturalism has run its course

''Multiculturalism has run its course and it is time to move on." So begins Jonathan Sacks' new book on the future of British society and the dangers facing liberal democracy.

Arguing that global communications have fragmented national cultures and that multiculturalism, intended to reduce social frictions, is today reinforcing them, Sacks argues for a new approach to national identity. We cannot stay with current policies that are producing a society of conflicting ghettoes and non-intersecting lives, turning religious bodies into pressure groups rather than society- building forces.

Sacks maintains that we will have to construct a national narrative as a basis for identity, reinvigorate the concept of the common good, and identify shared interests among currently conflicting groups. It must restore a culture of civility, protect "neutral spaces" from politicization, and find ways of moving beyond an adversarial culture in which the loudest voice wins. He proposes a responsibility-based, rather than rights- based, model of citizenship that connects the ideas of giving and belonging.

Offering a new paradigm to replace previous models of assimilation on the one hand, multiculturalism on the other, he argues that we should see society as "the home we build together," bringing the distinctive gifts of different goups to society as a whole, and not only to our particular subsection of it.

Sacks warns of the hazards free and open societies face in the twenty-first century, and offers an unusual religious defense of liberal democracy and the nation state. A counterweight to his earlier The Dignity of Difference, Sacks makes the case for "integrated diversity" within a framework of shared political views.''

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One should always know one's opponent and so, in that vein, I give you today, The Liberal Man, a brief description of the views, prejudices and fantasies of Canadian liberals of all stripes, shapes and sexes.

Nationalism
The Liberal Man is a post- nationalist. He doesn't really believe in the nation state, preferring the United Nations and the EU as more congenial conglomerations. If you ask him why; he will say he finds nationalism somewhat distasteful, too boastful, even fascist in origin. The whole idea that one country is better or more deserving of praise than another makes him uneasy.

Multiculturalism
The Liberal Man is proudly multicultural. He believes that all cultures are equal -- he is a cultural relativist -- and that none has any right to special status over another. Because of this, he finds excuses for such 'cultural' abnormalities as genital mutilation, honour killings, arranged marriages, stonings and second class status for women. 'Who are we to judge,' says The Liberal Man.

Western Guilt
The Liberal Man has intense feelings of guilt. Despite the fact the West ended slavery on the high seas (Britain) and in North America (the Union) and in practice (The Civil Rights Act), he still feels the burden of all those years when Western nations peopled their sugar islands with blacks brought over in chains. As a result, he is inclined to take the side of every tin pot dictator in black Africa and elsewhere over that of any Western nation. The many virtues of British Colonialism are ignored; the many vices of current African dictators likewise. When it comes to race, the West can do no right, the rest, no wrong.

Military Force
The Liberal Man is horrified at military force and does everything to avoid paying for it, using it or thinking about it. This is one reason why The Liberal Man is anti-American; Americans are prepared to use force to overthrow dictators, and force is bad, bad, bad. When Canada uses force The Liberal Man has regrets, second-thoughts, night sweats.

Weapons
Because he is against force, The Liberal Man is also against guns. Guns, he says, cause crime! And they're noisy. Ban them. Secretly, the Liberal Man thinks guns are symbolic of male aggression. He thinks banning guns will end male aggression. This makes sense since it's the guns that cause the aggression, not the males.

Religion
The Liberal Man is post-religious. It's not that he's an atheist, it's that he's too busy buying MP3 players, SUV's and flat-panel TV's to consider the possibility of another life, or an after life, or indeed death. The Liberal Man has never seen a dead person in the flesh and has no inkling of his own mortality. Because he is not religious, he has no concept of good and evil.

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