Jolly good! Just as we have all tired of the topic and "moved on", you have to drag it up again.

Where were you ealier on, old chap?

earlier

By the by, you will see that my avatar is suitably multi ethnic. There is nothing bigoted about me.

Amicus,

I think you had better leave that to Wibblamada, the Bigot finder General. He can sniff you out wherever you are.

JW, I agree with you completely with regards to those 'two simple facts'. But do you perhaps not see any similarity between the race lobby and the gay lobby? To my mind, their campaigns are very similar.

Sipu - there are certainly some people who make a career out of their identity as a gay man or gay woman, and I find them just as tedious as Phillips.

I should point out though, that my beef is not with the struggle against racism and homophobia, only with the issue of identity politics and its professional practitioners.

'This is not the point. Black and minority ethnic people are part of the landscape of Britain - get over it.'

Nonsense! Every time I go outside I see all my white compatriots picking their woad stains!
Anyway woad doesn't show up on black skins and they don't like the rain!
Stupid creature.

I shall make immediate complaint, why no 'woad stained' on the TV, we are all victims!!

Christina.

We are not only all victims, we are all GUILTY!

Oh Badger, what a relief!

I can curl up and lick/pick my woad stains in peace and quiet secure in the knowledge that I'm guilty and 'getting over it'!
How very avant garde that such provincial 'atavistas' should be in the vanguard of the 21st Century for a change!

'This is not the point. Black and minority ethnic people are part of the landscape of Britain - get over it. '

Agreed. But also depends on what part of Britain you live in.

Sipu-You are wrong there.The race lobby is fighting from a moral ground.The gay lobby does not operate from the same stance.They are godless,hate filled and evil.Race is a better issue to fight for than homosexuality.Bugger all homosexuals.

Badger - a Peter Simple fan I see. Good Man.

The Bulletin-Good morning.How is the news today?.

Landscapes are man made. Landscapes can be changed. Where is Capability Brown when you need him? Not in No. 10. That's for sure!

Black and minority ethnic people are part of the landscape of Britain. Too true...and they are much more appealing than bloody wind turbines. More blacks...less windmills !!

Razsputin

Are you trying to see how quickly you can get yourself barred?

razsputin = idiot.

Nothing to see here, move along.

This really is a pile of cock! Issues of gender, race, sexuality, blah, blah, etc is undoubtedly the political arena of the middle classes. People, not the chattering NW London classes, of assoretd variances tend to get on with life and only realise there is a proble when someone tells them there is. Just for once be honest; all people are racist, homophobic, men are all misogonists, women are men haters (when they are not living off their husbands incomes) and everyone hates eveyone else, especially Ford Mondeo drivers. The minority groups are smokers, drinkers and drivers of 4x4s and any vehicle over 8 years old. So once we have errected baricades, laid down strings of barbed wire and locked ourselves into our bomb proof shelters then we will all be happy - bored with 1970s politics in 2008!

Whose bloody income should I be living on then if not my husband's?
Well I declare!

Stephen - nah. The only people I really hate are Crystal Palace supporters. Oh yeah, and the fucking masons, of course.