Saturday, February 05, 2011

Cameron to declare death of Multiculturalism in Munich.

My last posting to this blog, made a few hours ago, only last evening, concluded with the following sentence:

"Many signs are in the wind, our leaders will ignore them to the great peril of all!"

What more significant sign of present realities can there be but that Britain's Prime Minister, David Cameron, should choose the capital city of Bavaria, to pronounce that Britain's greatest ever social experiment, known under the once respectable term of Multiculturalism, is to be abandoned as a result of being a complete disaster, to my mind  in almost every respect. Read the BBC report from here, from which I quote the following before it can be buried removed:

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A genuinely liberal country "believes in certain values and actively promotes them," Mr Cameron will say.
"Freedom of speech. Freedom of worship. Democracy. The rule of law. Equal rights, regardless of race, sex or sexuality.
"It says to its citizens: This is what defines us as a society. To belong here is to believe these things.
"Each of us in our own countries must be unambiguous and hard-nosed about this defence of our liberty."
He will say that under the "doctrine of state multiculturalism", different cultures have been encouraged to live separate lives.
"We have failed to provide a vision of society to which they feel they want to belong. We have even tolerated these segregated communities behaving in ways that run counter to our values."
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I will post on my own personal sense of what multiculturalism should mean later today. Meantime I would ask my own blog readers to consider what they make of the decision to make such a major domestic political statement in such a place?

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