So, after 20 odd years, where are we at .....

[TheOstrich]

.... with the multicultural experiment, as dictated to us by our Government?

Well, we know for a fact:
The Welsh want to be Welsh
The Scots want to be Scottish
and the Cornish want to be Cornish ...

On the Beeb News tonight (you may have seen it), some eejit reporter (in full whey-ha-ha-ha, let's go interview the yokels mode) finished up in Padstow. The interview in the pub went something like this:

Would you want a local assembly based on Cornwall?
P'raps ..... but we got no money coming in.
Well what about if you had a local region run from, say, Plymouth?
<suspiciously> But isn't that in Devon?
Well, what about a South West Regional Area from Bristol down to Penzance?
<amazed> Bristol? but that MILES away ....

We all want our seperate identities, be it the Cornish, the Cumbrians, the Tykes, the Bangladeshi, the Caribbean communities.

Will someone please tell the Westminster elite that multiculturalism is now dead and buried?

[cromwell]

At various points over the last few years European leaders like Merkel, Sarkozy and Cameron have all said that multiculturalism has failed.

What none of them have said is what they are going to do about it...

The BBC report on the news was the usual lying b@$$@x I'm afraid. Talking about "growing support" for devolution when there has never been a vote in favour of regional assemblies or elected mayors.

We are a hell of a funny democracy, that's for sure.

[miasmum]

Slightly off topic but when we were in Mevagissey last year and we were talking to the landlord of The Fountain, I asked him if many people spoke Cornish and he said "why would we? So we can turn our backs on the tourists and speak our own language like the Welsh do? We like speaking to tourists, you are our livelihood"

[Workingman]

Multiculturalism was created by the centre parties of both right and left: mainly left. For them to now do anything about it would be an admission that they were wrong - and politicians are never wrong. Not only that, but they do not know what to do about it.

Any politician who makes any sort of move to sort things out will be shouted down and branded as "racist" by the ultra-left, and we all know that the ultra-left are cuddly sorts who are always correct. How they are not as despised as the far-right baffles me...... but then I suppose they have all risen to high office in the media. education, the arts, and so have a lot more influence than their numbers within society should allow.

[Suff]

Multiculturalism was nothing more than an attempt to brow beat anyone who did not have the same views. The proponents of it defied simple logic and created a situation where any attempt to even discus it sensibly caused howls of “racist”.

Now it’s highly amusing. Because all those centrists realise it was a disaster. They realise they have created a hell for themselves where every minority radical bigot is allowed to rant on at length and every attempt to even begin to stop it is met with the race card.

Racism is the new game in town. Not racism of the majority against the few. It is now racism of the few against the majority. I must admit that although I’m pretty annoyed by the way things have turned out, I’m hugely amused at the quandary all those political thumb sitters have created for themselves….

All I can say is that they will pay for this in ways neither obvious nor small…

[Aggers]

To me, multiculturalism is something that has been forced upon us by thick-headed politicians,
who, true to form, have completely ignored the wishes of those they are supposed to represent.

I despair for the future of this country.