Britishness, racist to the core?

The first ethnic minority president of the National Union of Teachers has said ministers fuel racism by ordering schools to teach “British values“.

London assistant head teacher Baljeet Ghale told the union’s annual conference Britain did not have a monopoly on free speech and tolerance.

The move only fuelled the “shadow of racism” behind some notions of Britishness, she said.

Ms Ghale, who came to England from Kenya at the age of eight, also criticised Labour’s record on other education issues.

She wanted an education system that valued diversity and accepted her right to support Tottenham Hotspur – but France in the European Cup, Brazil in the World Cup, Kenya in the Olympics and India in cricket but England in the Ashes.

She went on: “I certainly don’t pass Tebbit’s cricket test but none of my affiliations make me a less valuable person or less committed to being part of this society, but they do make me a global citizen.”

For some people, racism lay behind notions of what it meant to be British, she said.

“To demand that people conform to an imposed view of Britishness only fuels that racism,” Ms Ghale said.

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Oh dear, the chimes of multiculturalism backfiring, leave the experimentors in a migrain of desperation, dammed if do, dammed if dont.

If only the Old Gang White Feathers of the political elite had core policy in which to build from, now desperate to collect the votes of those they left behind over the last 50 years, now rising are those to take charge of their once great country, you just cannot please everyone can you.

If YOU are one of those who are rising to save YOUR country, there is a fountain of political and social life before you.

May 3rd.

YOU decide YOUR future.