OWV, I think that you are missing the point completely. I don’t think that anyone on here is expressing racist views but unfortunately, what is now referred to as the ‘woke, PC brigade’ do not accept any viewpoint other than their own extreme versions. If you don’t agree with them, you are racist. Of course, that is arrant nonsense. People do not like to be lectured to by a bunch of self appointed moral crusaders and that is generating a backlash. Take the knee bending nonsense, for example, anyone with half a brain would not set up a movement using the same name as an overtly racist, anarchistic movement as ‘Black Lives Matter’. Of course it generates resentment, sadly, the movers and shakers in football are too thick to see that it is counterproductive; maybe they are racist too? As for all the stabbing in this country at the moment, the vast majority are ‘black on black’, which doesn’t make them any less tragic but it does give a hint to why some people hold the views that they do. Then there is the everlasting problem of immigration. I don’t see how anyone can deny that illegal immigration, whether it be to the UK or any other Northern European country, is just not sustainable in the long term. It is no surprise that there is resentment, we are all human and all subject to fears and emotions that are natural to us humans; none of us are perfect and as a species have a natural inclination to what we see as self preservation. Is this cruel, inhuman, racist or whatever? Maybe, but there is no dispute that there are massive social problems that will have to be dealt with and you won’t please all of the people with any solution. It’s a tough old world out there and it isn’t going to get easier. Getting on a high horse and lecturing people how they should behave just won’t work.

Here endeth the sermon!