Phew, panic over.
This isn't a new, shameful attempt to secure votes.
It's been going on for a while.
'HYNDBURN'S Kashmiri community is to be officially recognised as a separate ethnic group by its local council.
Of the 6,000 people in Hyndburn who would class themselves as Asian, 70 per cent would prefer to be known as Kashmiri.
Manager of the Scaitliffe Community Centre in Accrington, Munsif Dad said: "We hope that recognition will mean council services can be better directed to the needs of the Kashmiri community."
Ethnic status given to Kashmiris | Accrington Observer - menmedia.co.uk
Personally I'd like to see a council that encourages unity, and the idea that first, and foremost, we are all Hyndburnians, and all seen as being equal, especially in the eyes of our local government.
I know. Stupid. Sorry.
Just the daft musings of an unworldly idealist.
It'll never happen.