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Home Secretary John Reid has called for a mature debate on the immigration challenges facing Britain.

Mr Reid said: “We have to get away from this daft so-called politically correct notion that anybody who wants to talk about immigration is somehow a racist.”

Home Secretary and Scots tough guy Dr John Reid, trying to sound responsive and responsible today.

The problem is that the only discussion worth having is not really about immigration.  It is about the rights and interests of the natives.  It is about determining what they really want, and the practicalities of delivering that.  It is about John Reid’s own politics and the treachery of the political class to which he belongs.

None of that is on John Reid’s radar, of course.  Nor ever will be.

Meanwhile, he is showing a willingness to throw us one or two scraps of something like a public debate.  So here are a few basic suggestions that, if I could, I would make to his face, and which I am confident would shape the debate to be mature as he could possibly wish:-

1) Exclude the voices of immigrants, whose interests always lie in encouraging more immigration.

2) Debate not just on the basis of economics but on ethnic interests.  Project the demographics into the future, and tell us how things are going to be for our children and grandchildren.

3) Eliminate all the usual, rubbishy pieties about the “skills” of immigrants and the precious gifts of diversity.  They only signal your lack of seriousness.  Instead, be honest about racial mean IQ’s, propensities for criminality, black sexualisation etc.

4) Take your time.  The English majority has been subjected to a racist official campaign of some decades longevity.  Give them however long they need to recover their tongues and their sense of self-interest.

5) Be humble and penitent before the will of the people, even if you will never bring yourself to agree with it.  And you won’t.

David Cameron’s first big by-election test was yesterday, in leafy, suburban Bromley & Chislehurst.  He flunked it.

The late, great Eric Forth’s 13,342 General Election majority over Labour was reduced to a pretty desperate 633 over Ming Campbell’s Lib-Dems.  The ground opened up and swallowed Labour, meanwhile - their vote-share dropping from 22.2% at the GE to a paltry 6.6% and 4th place behind UKIP.

Overall, the number of votes cast to the four principal players fell by 40%, which one might expect at a by-election.  On the right of the spectrum the combined Tory/UKIP vote fell by a little more: 44%.  But it was a slightly different story on the left.  Despite Labour’s meltdown the combined Labour/Lib-Dem vote fell by 34%.  The Lib-Dems’ vote actually went-up by 17%.

It is reasonable to conclude that, in this constituency at least, there is widespread disdain for the government but no particular seepage from left to right, and certainly no enthusiasm for the Cameron agenda.  Indeed, there appears to have been an anti-Cameron vote - a case of the centre rejecting itself perhaps!  The killer for him would be if he was actually losing votes to the Lib-Dems for reasons other than the fact that the latter is always the Party of protest.  This, though, is impossible to determine based on numbers alone.

Meanwhile, Cameron’s carefully cultivated line on Europe has done him no good at all.  It came apart in his hands in the days before the poll, utter confusion prevailing over his wish to withdraw his Party from the federalist alliance in the European Parliament and to scrap The Human Rights Act.  It is difficult to see quite where he will go from here on Europe.  It is important to him, being the positive means by which he aims to bind the right of the Party to him (the negative one being that they have nowhere else to go).

They have UKIP, of course.  In Bromley & Chislehurst, Cameron’s Europe debacle surely helped Nigel Farrage to stem the decline evident at May 5th’s local authority elections.  He increased the vote at the last GE by more than half - though at these low numbers small swings can appear more significant than they really are.  UKIP might also have benefitted from the BNP’s reluctant endorsement, though we could only be talking about a hundred or two votes.

Cameron, then, and his little band of ambition modernisers have some thinking to do.  Blair might as well not bother, and chuck it in now.

There is a useful chart of the BNP’s local authority election results on its website, from which we can construe a few facts about them and the mountain they are climbing.  I think the present tense in that latter regard is entirely justified now, btw.  The climb, wherever it takes them, has properly begun.

The first thing to make perfectly clear is that it is a climb in three parts.  A base camp must be established in each local authority ward and Westminster constituency.  There must then follow a period of steady progress - hard graft with the object of familiarisation of the terraine and consolidation of further gains.  Finally, when all is ready and the electoral conditions are right, one may strike out for the summit.

What the BNP’s figures tell us is that besides the 32 mountaineers who planted the Cross of St.George on their particular summits on Thursday there are a further 225 in the middle phase of the local authority ascent.  They are comprised of about 75 second places and double that number of thirds.  And that, of course, does not include the twenty councillors the Party has in areas where no election took place this time, nor all those in the middle-phase in those areas.

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Our cool Prime Minister, yeah, is looking like, y’ know, a bit of a dead man walking.  A drip-drip of killer Nu-Labour financial factoids is escaping into the public domain.  It can’t be stopped.

The latest development is that the people’s Prime Minister’s own fund-raiser - a man named Levy who was somehow elevated to the House of Lords - is distancing himself from, y’know, Tony’s slow-motion accident.  Since nobody outside Downing Street y’knew anything at all about the Party’s loan-funding, Tony is all on his lonesome.  Though, obviously, God still is right there.  Standing beside him.  What a pity He’s not interested in ermine.

The latest loan-shark to come out with a belly-up admission of involvement in Blair’s scandal is a property squillionaire named Andrew Rosenfeld.

He follows in the wake of the four frustrated Lords appointees: Rosenfeld’s business partner, Sir David Garrard, curry magnate Sir Gulam Noon (who’s had a bit of bother with Nu-Labour before), Dr Chai Patel and someone who might - actually might - be English, stockbroker Barry Townsley.

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Neil Murphy, a government economic adviser, has described Newcastle as “hideously white” at a city conference.

Yes, Trevor Phillips, CRE chief and demoniser of black pudding eaters everywhere, is back to his best form once again.

He has had a very lean spell, even if he did bring it on himself.  You see, when you write-off your best bit of special pleading in years you are likely to confuse people somewhat.  Telling the entire country and its goldfish that a keeness to admit institutional racism was just a white “cop out” might have looked to Trev like proof of his high standards.  But to the accursed majority it just looked like there was no pleasing the man.  Sorry, The Man.  There probably isn’t, but never mind.

Then there was Trev’s theory about the failure of multiculturalism.  Now, I didn’t mind this one at all because multiculturalism is a failure for very sound sociobiological reasons.  But for some unaccountable reason few of Trev’s so solid brothers follow my line of reasoning.  Lee Jasper, a most unreasonably angry black vice-something in Livingstone’s Leninist London [finally, an “L3” comparable to Loony Labour Left], was especially scathing:-

In the real world, this onslaught translates into an approach that says: “Assimilate, accept the majority’s norms - because if you don’t, your failure to integrate, not racism, is the problem.” Counterposing integration to multiculturalism is bound to lead to castigation of black communities for supposed failings.

Supposed?  Failings?  What could he mean?

Completely unphased, Trev then experienced that Archimedian moment.  Not about anything difficult like arithmetic or geometry, of course.  No, this was about the low educational attainment of black yoofs (not to be confused with the low intellectual abilities of same).  But once again he was slaughtered in the bath, sorry press.  Or “well slortard” I suppose one should say in the required argot of Railton Road.

It wasn’t looking good.  Despite the neat suits, public pronouncement as a vehicle for self-promotion just wasn’t delivering the desired limmo-full of national praise.  Now, perhaps, the grizzly fate of his predecessor at the CRE, the bibulous Gurbux Singh, was beginning to make sense.

But the great thing about race relations is that there will always be another socialist-red bus along in a minute.  And sure enough, Trev has come up with a good one ... a legal assault no one will challenge on a victim no one will ever, ever defend:-

The chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality accused the Government yesterday of “deep institutional complacency” for failing to enforce its own laws to safeguard the rights of ethnic minorities.

Trevor Phillips, who has close links to Tony Blair and New Labour, said the CRE was poised to take legal action against several Whitehall departments over their alleged incompetence in upholding the law.

The Man is incorrigible.

So, Dennis Healey’s famous advice about stopping digging has been ignored.  The Home Office and the CPS just can’t resist putting Nick Griffin and Mark Collett back in the dock.

Perhaps they feel they have no choice - the sanctity of the MultiCult cannot be preserved if BNP members can legally tell one another that Islam is a wicked religion.

Perhaps they only really care that their private, Marxoid prejudices are exercised.  After all, with the Anti-Hunting Bill the left was happy to turn the toff-hating, cuddly fox-loving public into veritable hunt supporters.  It has a long tradition of self-indulgent gesture politics regardless of cost.

In any event, the judge has named May 15th for the start of the trial.  That will be eleven days after the Council Elections to be held at the beginning of the month.  The BNP is hoping for a good showing as a result of the first trial.  As I said on February 2nd, none of this is going to get any easier for the Crown.

I suppose the chances will increase of a few arrests in connection with the hate protest held outside the Danish Embassy in London.  I can already hear the bearded ones’ brief wearily explaining to the court that sorry, sorry but no offense, mate, and the placards were just meant to illustrate how those peaceful, brotherly, vibrant people see Mr Rose’s blasphemous cartoons.  But Nick and Mark could be inside by then, of course, if the new jury is more Pee-Cee than the last one.

We don’t know the balance of the original jury’s opinion on the live charges.  The impression given by Griffin on his Free Speech Blog was that no prospect of agreement existed at all.  Obviously, the judge accepted that or the charges would not have been quashed.  One might be over-confident in assessing the chances of a successful prosecution this time as distinctly low.  Over-confidence in legal matters is never advisable, but in the absence of any known grounds for the Crown’s optimism - any new evidence or new witnesses - it does look that way.

Bear in mind also that a second trial for Griffin and Collett is a trial also for the Establishment.  A collapse or another failure to agree a verdict - or, of course, Not Guilty verdicts - would be a huge propaganda coup for the BNP while the CPS and police would be compromised by their clear political bias.  There is a lot more riding on this than the fate of two minor British politicians.

Whatever drove the decision to press ahead, this prosecution has “dangerous” and “unwise” stamped everywhere.  Expect the media to greet it with a marked lack of enthusiam and to report it with minimal interest.

So, although our Prime Minister, yeah, was stranded in South Africa while the Commons debated compulsory ID cards, he has got his deeply suspect way and we will get his cards.  The government won by 31 votes.  It has a Commons majority of 64.

The bill will now go back to the Upper House for its second reading.  So the next question to be answered is whether their Lordships will re-insert their prior amendment suspending all action on the cards until full costs are known.  The government’s margin of victory on that tonight - 53 votes - may well be sufficient to stay their hand.  This looks like a lost war.  I will probably have to change my blog handle to 6530988747.

There is always, though, the wild hope and succour for the truly, madly desperate of a Cameron victory in 2009.  That dubious pleasure might save us from having to register our “personal details” with the state.  Whether David Cameron is a torch-bearer for freedom is, of course, wholly unknown.  More likely, he is a torch-singer for MI5.

While our Prime Minister, yeah, has been slumming it in lovely, downtown Soweto his Chancellor has made another in his series of speeches about what Britain Under Brown will be like.  Awfully British value-wise, apparently.  At United Royal Services Club in London he “called for a battle for the hearts and minds of British Muslims to prevent them coming under the influence of Islamic extremists.”

Notwithstanding the fine record of success of past campaigns for alien hearts and minds - Viet Nam always comes to the fore, I think, but Iraq is right up there, too - I really can’t see this working.  Frankly, if I was a Muslim and I saw Mr Brown reaching out to me, I’d run like hell in the direction of Finsbury.

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