Vincent Cable MP (Liberal Democrat)

This post at the CEP has prompted me to mail Vincent Cable MP (Liberal Democrat - Shadow Chancellor) regarding his alleged quote in this article:

"The threat to harmonious social relations in Britain comes from those who insist that multiple identity is not possible: white supremacists, English nationalists, Islamic fundamentalists.

This is the opposition and they have to be confronted. An important element in that confrontation is the assertion of a sense of Britishness."

It is perfectly possible to be an English Nationalist without any reference to multiculturalism and multiple identity. His accusation is insulting and his grouping of English Nationalists along side white supremacists and Islamic fundamentalists , though a good trick to imply a certain sordidness about nationalism that doesn't exist, is a disgrace.

DumbJon comments:

Here, we have a group of people creating mayhem across the globe, and Vincent Cable classes them with people who support a solution to the West Lothian question he disagrees with ? But, of course! This is the world view of the modern Liberal in a nutshell, a childish tautology whereby the Right is evil, and everyone who's evil is on the Right.

Posted by John at September 9, 2005 09:16 AM | TrackBack