More than a third of Brits admit to being racially prejudiced to some degree.

According to the latest British Social Attitudes survey, the level of racism in the UK has returned to the same level it was 30 years ago.

So most of us are a little racist. It’s just that our target has changed.

The 72% of people who didn’t consider themselves racist want to see immigration stopped.

With all the furore caused by UKIP’s political advancement, alongside the far-right National Front’s victory in France, is it any surprise that these figures are that high?

It doesn’t take an economist or an historian to figure out the correlation between economic instability and the rise in popularity of right wing parties.

The Daily Express decided to put a story on page 2 ‘Romanian Worker Jailed for 4k Theft.’ Quite a timely headline really, but is it really worthy of page 2 news? Had this incident occurred away from UKIP’s electoral success, then it wouldn’t have featured at all.

Racism remains rife.

Look at the handwritten advert in Lancashire that rightly caused a ruckus: 'For Rent, 3 Bedrooms, Just Pakistani Family.'

How does one think it is ever okay in this day and age to come out with such rhetoric?

Imagine my surprise when a friend described another woman as being dressed like an Eastern European cougar. What does one of them even look like? Does an English cougar have a distinctly different dress code? And dare I ask, what does a Pakistani cougar look like?

However, if we’re not extolling subtle racism to others, we’re doing it to ‘our own.’ One aunty arrived at a ‘Committee’ lunch and revealed that after an hysterical argument with her British-born Pakistani daughter-in-law, she was duly told to ‘Go back to where you came from.’ We really are a contradiction unto ourselves. How many times have we all heard the sage advice, ’Never do business with an apna. They never pay on time.’ One friend admitted that her mother was happy to allow a Polish cleaner to work in the house because ‘Polish people are hard working like us, hain na.’ As the figures reveal, it is no longer the case of an older generation being the ones that hold unforgiving and intolerant views, but rather, it is still a national battle we are struggling with.