From: Noa
To: A Friend
Subject: RE: A reminder of why we NEED UKIP!
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 23:01:44 +0100
BTW You may be interested in this article by Hitchens in the MoS.
http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2013/04/how-i-am-partly-to-blame-for-mass-immigration.htmlI
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From A Friend
To Noa
Sent: Tue 02/04/2013 23:0
It’s very true and Hitchens is good at putting across complex ideas in a very simple and effective way.
He mentions Ray Honeyford. One of the things that turned me against the Labour Party was the dishonest treatment of Ray Honeyford in the 1980s.
When I became a journalist I was honoured to interview him. He had a deep sense of right and wrong and was unshakeable in his commitment to a secular education for all races. He was slandered mercilessly as a ‘racist’ which he never was. When I met him I was impressed by his dignity – most people would have been fuming at being treated the way he had been treated.
Even so, he had been soured by it as he admitted and I think his confidence had taken a knock. He was kindly and courteous to a trainee journalist.
I was writing a series of features about anti-social behaviour and its cause: social and family breakdown. He kindly agreed to write a column himself which saved me time and trouble – but allowed a small local paper to be graced by a deep thinker who history proved to be right.
He died last year. He was almost forgotten. A sad story of a man diminished by other people’s political convenience.
I sent some words of respect to his family but I believe that not many others did so. I’m glad that Peter Hitchens has remembered him.
Let’s hope that things will go full circle one day.
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It would be an entirely sensible and just thing to have Ray Honeyford’s name tattooed on the forehead of every NUT employee and every Labour and Liberal party member. It might occasionally dissuade them from shouting “waycist” whenever they exhaust the sparse rag-bag of cliches that passes for political analysis.
A desperately sad article by Peter Hitchens recording a national tragedy!
And what does he make me think of when I read: “The only threat might have come from the aggrieved British people, but we could always stifle their protests by suggesting that they were modern-day fascists”?
What was abundantly clear at the time was Mr Honeyford’s commitment to young asian girl pupils and it is to every ‘progressive’ and race industry hustler’s shame that that was deliberately ignored in their desperation to wrest back control of the agenda. For the Left those girls were of little importance.