In the English local authority elections of May 2006 the BNP scored a phenomenal success in Barking & Dagenham, a much-enriched district on the eastern edge of London.

The local Labour MP, Margaret Hodge, picked up a good deal of the blame for the BNP’s performance.  Instead of refuting its line on preferential housing allocation for migrants, she had managed to make it almost respectable for English residents to vote for the local BNP candidates.  There were calls - unheeded, naturally - for her to resign from her government post in the Department of Trade and Industry. 

Now, hard on the heels of Gordon Brown’s little eco-stratagem - the planned building of thousands of new council houses - Ms Hodge has outraged Labour supporters in the same way again.  Writing in the Observer she declares:-

A message to my fellow immigrants

In our open, tolerant country, there are, thankfully, few issues that remain taboo.  But, motivated by the fear of both legitimising racism and encouraging the extreme right, migration is one.  Yet for many voters, it continues to be a top issue.

My constituency of Barking in east London has experienced rapid change, moving from predominantly white neighbourhoods to many multiracial neighbourhoods.  At the same time, my constituents are facing other challenges.  Young families on low wages cannot afford to buy a home and the council house stock has shrunk with tenants exercising their right to buy.  These young families enjoy few choices.

... For some, it is easy to blame the new families for the frustrations they feel.  As people living in Barking see new faces and hear new languages, they often link the problems in their community with the migratory changes.  Unless we listen, we shall be unable to convince people that we are on their side as they learn to live with new neighbours in the tolerant and strong multiracial society we on the liberal left desire.  This stifled debate means we have missed the opportunity to articulate more clearly the huge benefits to our economy, our culture and the evolving nature of our Britishness that migration brings.

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There is a project afoot compiling what might be thought of as “The Best of Majority Rights Articles” and we are looking for nominations from the readership.  Many of these were written some time ago when some authors would spend a lot of energy to write articles that might well be cleaned up a bit and submitted to peer-reviewed journals.  Due to the nature of blog software, such articles are submerged by new blog entries.  It becomes difficult to give them proper prominence within the total Majority Rights corpus.  So an additional format is being added to remedy this, and other limitations of the current blog structure.

So, nominate away:

What are your favorite Majority Rights articles of all time?

On the White House lawn, a loyal Jew and faithful Mexican.  With George W Bush, to speak about ...

Leading U.S. senators reached an agreement on Thursday on an immigration overhaul that would fortify U.S. borders and grant lawful status to millions of illegal immigrants, a move that could lead to a major legislative victory for President George W. Bush.

The agreement sets the stage for what is expected to be a passionate Senate debate over the proposal, which would give an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants legal status, create a temporary worker program and establish a new merit-based system for future immigrants.

“The agreement we’ve just reached is the best possible chance we will have in years to secure our borders, bring millions of people out of the shadows and into the sunshine of America,” said Sen. Edward Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat who helped lead the bipartisan talks that included Sen. Jon Kyl and administration officials.

Source Reuters.

Some grim predictions for the American, Chinese and British economies by Martin Hutchinson, in his latest piece at Prudent Bear.
GW.

The Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the People’s Bank of China have this week all been faced with the same unpleasant reality: by their irresponsible monetary policies they have enabled gigantic asset bubbles that are redistributing wealth towards the criminal classes and in the long run will impoverish everybody else. Their reaction has been similar; to a large extent they have washed their hands of the problem.

The Bank of England’s response was most rational; it put up interest rates, though only by ¼%, far less than is required to right the foundering ship of Britain’s economy. The People’s Bank of China at least deplored the bubble, though it failed to recognize to what extent its irresponsible monetary policies and suppression of the yuan’s exchange rate had fueled it – but then after all, these people are nominally Communists; one cannot expect them to get it right every time when they are shown so many bad examples from abroad. The Fed on the other hand kept interest rates flat, as it has since last June, while easing its anti-inflationary language slightly – thus essentially acting as enabler to the Wall Street speculators, who had by Friday convinced themselves yet again that interest rates were about to drop.

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Bloomberg reports that

Thomson Corp., owner of the Westlaw Legal database and TradeWeb bond-trading network, agreed to buy Reuters Group Plc for 8.7 billion pounds ($17.2 billion) to become the biggest financial news and information company… The acquisition of Reuters, the 156-year-old news organization that has grown to 2,400 journalists…

Through the miracle of division we find this is a value of $7,166,667 or about SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS PER JOURNALIST.  This in a company whose CEO Tom Glocer is quoted as saying:

But it is not just bloggers, it is citizen journalists armed with their 1.3 megapixel camera phones… In the news industry, professional and .amateur. content combined creates a better product. It tells the story at a deeper level. Take the tragic Boxing Day tsunami in 2004. For the first 24 hours the best and only photos and video came from tourists.

Now I know these are “only numbers” and maybe the contemporaneous acquisition involving Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal (another “financial news” company like Reuters) is “only a coincidence” and maybe this all happening right when we’re getting news of Iran massively scaling up its uranium processing due also to “only a coincidence”, but it does give one pause, if not cause, to reflect on possible relationships:

The news organization has been accused of showing an anti-Israel and anti-American bias, by sources such as the National Review and The Wall Street Journal’s editorial division… Critics alleged ... problems at the news organization: bias and widespread use of local freelance photographers, which can result in Reuters inadvertantly acting as a “propaganda outlet”.

Reading “Record numbers on anti-depressants”:

After the country walk, 71 per cent reported decreased levels of depression while 90 per cent reported increased self-esteem. This contrasted with only 45 per cent who experienced a decrease in depression after the shopping centre walk, and 22 per cent even said they actually felt more depressed.

I am reminded of a passage from “The Society of the Spectacle” by Guy-Ernest Debord

To Marx, one of the greatest revolutionary merits of the bourgeoisie was “the subjection of the country to the city” whose very air emancipates.

For most of us, being shoved into cities where we are daily confronted with our slavery to money and dispossession of our people, depression is an obvious consequence.  How different is Marx—a genotype that finds the “diversity” of the city “emancipating” at a visceral level.

Whatever other forces there might have been for urbanization, I think this is a self-serving genotypic force driving masses to:

Hence massive drug dependency.

Austen Ivereigh has worked in “the faith community” in Britain as a press officer here and an editor there for a lot of years.  These days, though, he has embarked upon a new career in the immigration trade, agitating for the “regularisation” of the 500,000+ “undocumented” aliens who live in the shadows of the MultiCult.  He fronts the pressure group Strangers into Citizens - in fact, I think he probably is the pressure group Strangers into Citizens.

Irrespective of my opinions about his cause, I can certainly admire his dedication and his know-how.  But his success I positively envy.  He is forcing the “regularisation” of “undocumented” migrant workers on to the attention of left-field politicians and assorted appassionatos everywhere, and it may be only a matter of time and Gordon Brown’s succession before he forces it on Downing Street, too.  That, of course, is the aim.

“Undocumented” migrant workers - never, never describe them by their real name - hit all the appassionato buttons: poverty, exclusion, powerlessness, hopelessness, holy minority wage slavery, unholy majority exploitation (sometimes).  The proper fate of illegal aliens - a swift and certain repatriation -  smacks too much of “injustice” and the institutional heartlessness of bureaucracy.  The only response that liberal Christians and post-Christian liberals can make is to ask the dishonest question: “So what, really, must I personally (though I don’t really mean that) and we communally sacrifice to make this pain end?”

Since in liberalism there is no language for majority ethnic interest more coherent than the usual screeches of “racist-fascist-nazi”, its sacrifice does not compute.  So the answer comes back: “Nothing is lost or sacrificed.  I and, of course, we (though I don’t really mean that) can only glorify God/me through this gift of brotherliness.”

Oh, the uplift and sense of self-satisfaction that is there, just waiting to be had - a sinfully selfish, velvety Belgian chocolate wrapped up in a Pietà moment.  Plainly, urgent action is called for.

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What does it mean when the Wall Street Journal, of all places, carries an opinion piece with the following illustration of the flight of middle class whites from immigration:

In case you are unconvinced this was as radical a departure from WSJ “Ministry of Truth” standards as it is, take look at this quote:

The economic divide in New York and Los Angeles is starting to look like the economic divide in Mexico City and São Paulo.

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