Election Year or Fear!

[Geoff Parkstone]

I don’t think there are actually.

That is your interpretation of what I said, nothing more.
I fully accept that a minority of immigrants have behaved badly and brought trouble on themselves. Equally I fully accept that a significant minority of ‘indigenous’ British people have a history of displaying racist behaviour. It’s sadly been there in one form or another for as long as I can remember and, almost certainly, a great deal longer.

Why is one merely a minority and the other a significant minority? I would ascribe "blame" fairly evenly. Does this infer you don't? I recognise here that as a writer you chose your words carefully, hence my inference.

Regarding your elsethread comment about being at Red Lion Square (I assume 1974) does this mean that you carry Lord Scarman's "measure of moral responsibility" for the death of Kevin Gateley? Presuming that is you were there pro Liberation / IMG as opposed to pro NF, but stranger things have been known!

[ramAnag]

Why is one merely a minority and the other a significant minority? I would ascribe "blame" fairly evenly. Does this infer you don't? I recognise here that as a writer you chose your words carefully, hence my inference.

Regarding your elsethread comment about being at Red Lion Square (I assume 1974) does this mean that you carry Lord Scarman's "measure of moral responsibility" for the death of Kevin Gateley? Presuming that is you were there pro Liberation / IMG as opposed to pro NF, but stranger things have been known!

So you carefully overlook the point you were wrong on.

You’re being pedantic. The context was that around 25-30% of voters have been attracted by Farage/ReformUK. That is a ‘significant minority’. I don’t doubt that some immigrants have proved their own worst enemy but I’ve no idea how many or how you’d measure them. In my experience they are a minority.

I’m not going to go back over half a century to discuss the death of Kevin Gately. I was there, as a 20 year old student, to demonstrate entirely peacefully against the National Front as, I believe, was he. There is very little stranger, even in your world, than the thought of me ever being ‘pro NF’, whether that be the initials of a trouble making political organisation or the equally troublesome leader of a new political party.