[WillowTheWhisp]

I wish the CRE or what ever it is called these days (race relations board bods) could see that what they are doing is actually CREATING racists.

The majority of people would quite happily co-exist on a live and let live basis as long as what others were doing didn't affect their way of life. Unfortunately this isn't the case. As chav says, if we go to a muslim country where the women are expected to cover certain parts of their body then our women would be expected to comply. We wouldn't get away with complaining that it wasn't our way of doing things and that they were infringeing our civil liberties or being racist. Yet we have people who come here and not only want to live by their own standards (which is fine) but complain the the indiginous population doesn't live by those standards. If we complain about it then we are branded racist. It only takes a few times of being accused of something we are not before the accused worm turns and actually fits the profile of the accusation with a vengeance. Previously placid tolerant friendly people are becoming anti-muslim purely by having been labelled as such.

Presumably the CRE will then turn round and say that they knew that underneath these people were inherntly racist all along but just pretending not to be!

Now then, what has all this got to do with fairground rides?

Oh, just one quick question as the subject was touched on - housing benefit and the cost of £90 a week in private as opposed to cheaper in council housing............... isn't the benefit paid by central government rather than the local council? It still comes out of our pockets in the end I know, but it wouldn't affect HBC's coffers.