21 June 2011

It's time to end the Tory war on multiculturalism

.... the M-word has become a distraction, a diversion, a dissipation of energies better focused "like a laser beam" on the struggle against extremism and the ideology that underpins it.

Tell a group of a hundred people in a mixed-ethnicity marginal that you oppose both, and most will agree. Tell them you oppose multiculturalism - state or otherwise - and you'll begin an argument that will end on judgement day.

Don't be against multiculturalism - be for integration. Be for teaching English history in schools. Be for teaching migrants English (even at this time of tight budgets). Be for cutting immigration to the tens of thousands. Be for a national holiday to celebrate the Queen's Birthday.

I should have seen before the Munich speech that a single word in it would compromise the effectiveness of all the others. [ConservativeHome] Read more