England should not be multi-cultural for several reasons:

- The cultural ideals of many parts of the third world are completely at odds with our own, not least the attitude of parts of north Africa and the Middle East to women.
- Cultural attitudes that do not lie in parallel will inevitably lead to violent conflict

The Commission for Racial Equality is quite right (for once) that allowing parents to choose a school and, even, run a school, will lead to segregation. Miss Anon (a co-author on this site) said to me the other day, that despite inspections and the National Curriculum, the influence of cultural attitudes within a school run in a non-English cultural majority area will inevitably lead to further segregation.

It is, in fact, inevitable that if we do not try to assimilate foreign cultures (let’s not beat around the bush, that’s what non-English culture in England is), then we will soon not have a single England — rather mini nations within England. And if those areas become significant enough, might we not have separatist movements spring up in the not-to-distant future? It’s almost a reverse-zionism for non-Jews!

Anyone who knows me will tell you that one of my virtues is a complete belief in a policy of colour-blindness when it comes to ethnicity. I’ve said before that I have many friends of a non-white colouring. I don’t say these things because I think it qualifies me in some way to speak on this subject, rather to illustrate that the colour of someone’s skin makes vehemently, absolutely no difference to their behaviour, attitudes or politics.

The BBC, left-wing do-gooders and the proponents of quotas, positive discrimination etc. are failing to notice what needs to happen. Talking of police treading carefully because of ‘community relations’ is missing the argument entirely. The police, of course, should not be entering people’s homes and beating them up (if that’s what happened), but neither should the ‘community’ be treated as a single group, either by the police or the media.

There will be people of all ethnicities in the area with a complete range of attitudes. Thankfully, not all Muslims or coloured people think the same way as George Galloway.

What I’m trying to say is that the debate must move on from colour, it must move on from place of birth — neither of these are relevant. Instead we should focus on the English culture and see what can be done about ghettoisation, stigma, Muslim academic underperformance, fundamentalism and, most importantly, cultural diversity.

When I talk about English culture, too, I am not talking about some historic picture-postcard scene of gentele folk sitting around a sunny village green eating scones and cream tea while watching cricket. No, I am talking about attitudes towards working, freedom from oppression and looking out for one-another. English culture has evolved and will continue to evolve. It will, hopefully, absorb the finer points of foreign cultures (let’s hope we all start having large families and Latin-style low-key family parties soon), but it should remain a culture unique to England, not one of several cultures within this country.

I intended this to be a short post, but I have noticed something about my non-stop use of the phrase “English culture”. It is my belief that in the long-term, if the EU works out the way it should, there will eventually be a European culture. This isn’t abhorent to me, but it must be reached naturally and by following a process of evolution. There will be much opposition to it not least from the right of my party and from the left of Labour, but that’s what the UK has signed us up to and, while we remain the EU, we must accept that this is the direction it should take. The choice is (a) a path to a European culture or (b) England leaving the EU (and preferably the UK).

In one sentence, ethnic diversity is neither a bad thing nor a good thing (it’s irrelevant) — cultural diversity is a bad and dangerous thing.