YOUR readers will be aware that the Home Secretary has extended the Race Relations Act (1976) to include what he calls "indirect discrimination".
What this means is that George Orwell's nightmare vision of Britain as he depicted it in his novel 1984 has advanced a step nearer.
What your readers may not be aware of is that under the provisions of the RRA (1976) it is not possible to discriminate against white people.
For instance a company might advertise for staff, but an ethnic owner or foreman would be at liberty to refuse point blank to engage a man simply because he was white and there would be nothing that the white man or indeed anyone else could do about it because the provisions of the RRA do not apply to white people
That is the fact of the matter: let your readers make of it what they will.
N.G. Charnley,
Chesterfield Road
Blackpool.
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