Cowardly attack
I have myself heard another urban myth; that the staff in our Polish shops won’t serve British customers.
I have been into a few and I have found the staff friendly and welcoming.
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Hide AdI would not take rumours of this kind seriously at all, even if they were read in the Telegraph; but even if this were absolutely true, I think repeating it in print is no more than a cowardly form of racial abuse.
I am surprised the Observer printed the letter.
I believe in freedom of speech, but there are laws to protect our ethnic minorities from racist attacks, even feeble ones such as this one.
With regards to the suggestion about the answer to the perceived problem of having ‘all and sundry’ here, suggesting the British sail off to ‘a new island with a kind and balmy climate’ – did we not already do that when we sailed over to India, Africa, America etc, stuck a flag in the ground and said: “This place is ours now because we have more guns than you”?
We live in a multicultural world.
For every person of ethnic minority here, there will be a Brit out there somewhere. I like that.
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Hide AdI also admire the way the people in the countries we simply took have been big enough to forgive us and put our empire-building past, where it belongs.
I hope people are not so hopelessly blinkered they cannot have a change of heart.
I look forward to the day we can put this kind of thinly-veiled racism behind us, too.
Kim Davis
Chichester Road, Bognor Regis