Comments on: There’s racism and then there’s racism

By: Sofia

Sofia — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:58:36 +0000

It would be interesting to find out what kind of law firms are closing down. Are these ones dealing predominantly with immigration, asylum, family..ie. high street law firms. I’ve met many unscrupulous Asian lawyers who make their money out of legal aid and frankly lying. I’ve met one who treated his trainees so badly they left and one was too scared to bring about constructive dismissal because she had not finished her two years and thought it would harm her future prospects. I’m not saying this is particular to Asian solicitors but it seems that as immigration is such an issue within the community, these solicitors see it as a way of making easy money.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:03:59 +0000

Add to the list of cultural relativism the black-on-black crime where Afro-Carribean men murder each other at epidemic proportions, and yet black leaders tend to focus on peripheral issues.

By: Sunny

Sunny — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:56:58 +0000

I can’t remember the last time I took Keith Vaz seriously on anything.

By: Jakey

Jakey — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:35:08 +0000

This is typical Keith Vaz playing vote bank politics. He depends a lot on the Asian vote in his Leicester constituency to stay in power so he barks at anything that is of ‘concern’ to his supporters. A few months ago he was crying for the head of Channel 4 to be sacked after the Ofcom report about Big Brother. What difference would that have made? Would it really have made any difference to the Asain man on the street? Vaz nearly always raises a disproportionate amount of concern about ridiculous issues. I agree with Rumbold; honour killings is a far more serious issue than discrimination against black and Asian law firms. Why canâ€™t ethnic minority politicians speak about things that really affect their communities?

By: Rumbold

Rumbold — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:56:59 +0000

Galloise Blonde:

Thanks for that- I got the e-mail but was not sure whether Jagdeesh had only written the petition, or the accompanying piece as well (I thought that you might have written it, so I thought it safest to attribute it to the site itself).

ZinZin:

Cheers.

By: ZinZin

ZinZin — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:41:08 +0000

Brilliant Rumbold.

By: Galloise Blonde

Galloise Blonde — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:50:57 +0000

Just pointing out that that was written by Jagdeesh Singh, Surjit’s brother.