Quote Originally Posted by Andy_Faber View Post
One thing I?d be interested in knowing, and it?s a genuine enquiry not any sort of trap: are you surprised, as evidenced by the growth of what you call ?the right?, that there are so many (I?m careful with my words here) ?racially intolerant? folk showing themselves through voting or direct action? Until my change of ?career? in 2009 and my exposure to a different (careful also here) ?class? of folk I was utterly unaware, and the standpoints, arguments put forward and anecdotes (oops!) offered shocked me
No, not particularly. We’ve been here before. Enoch Powell, skinheads in the seventies setting out to go ‘Paki bashing’ and the NF marches of the seventies and eighties.
I was at Red Lion Square, gave evidence at Bow Street in the mid seventies and was an active member of the Anti Apartheid movement, also in the seventies.
A huge amount of progress has been made. Just a bit sad that racial and religious tolerance is being held back by the usual suspects and the behaviour of a few.