Extracts from correspondence received
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"Dear Mr Green,
I read your article in the Daily Mail with interest, and found not a single item on which I could disagree. I find amongst my group of friends that these so called do gooders are actually making us into racists. The interests of the ethnic minorities is being forced on us too much and too quickly.
Your comment on the today programme was enlightening. I have long believed that the BBC operates a policy of positive discrimination. You only have to look at the disproportionate number of ethnic minorities working in their news programmes to come to that conclusion. I am not saying that they are not good at their jobs, but they surely weren't the only applicants.
In a similar vein. A television company contacted a friend of mine who has an insulation company. They wanted to do an item on the government's grants for insulation. One part was to film a house being insulated but the TV Company insisted that the residents of the house were Muslim. If this is not positive discrimination I don't know what is. All I ask for is a balanced view, in proportion to population numbers but were are being denied such a view."
March 2006
I'm writing to express my sincere support for your organisation and its frank approach to the issue of immigration. You raise some of the questions that have not been asked in the past few years by politicians, who seem afraid to confront the issue head-on. I fear that as a result of the Government's refusal to ask honest questions, we are today reaping the consequences.
February 2006
"Firstly can I say that your organisation is a breath of fresh air and not before time, and at last there is a someone speaking on behalf of vast majority of the British public.
My main point was regarding Sir Andrew Green's appearance on Question time on the 19th January. I would like Sir Andrew to know that I think that last nights appearance as at other public appearances was exceptional and he shows amazing calmness in what can quite often be a provocative attitude shown towards him and how well he explains his point of view.
My last two jobs in just over 5 years have evolved me travelling around the country visiting people in their homes (invited), up to five different households per day and anything from 30 mins to 1 hour with each person / family from working class areas to middle & upper class areas. Because I come from the south west quite often in conversation we talk about location and 'what it is like and to live in this, or that part of the country'. When I watch Question time and other political programmes people within the audience never seems to be from the spectrum of society that I see and definitely biased toward middle class left wing people.
This leaves me feeling quite frustrated as it is not a fair reflection of what people are saying and talking about in the real world. I feel the reason for this is that political correctness is not allowing people to debate these issues without being labelled a racist, this I feel is driving people's feelings on the subject of race and immigration underground and turning to anger which is not good for the future of this country.
Sir Andrew's view on Gordon Brown's speech on Britishness was spot on and will have struck a cord with many people watching. People feel that if they say that they are proud of being British that they have to say in the next breath that it includes people of all backgrounds, faith, race etc etc. I think that it is an insult for politician to tell me how I should feel about being British.
In my opinion the British are open, fair and tolerant of all people's but this is being totally abused and we now have a situation in our inner cities where we have nations within a nation, there is integration but only in the workplace or city centres, at the end of the day people are returning to ' their area's ' be it white, black, Asian etc. The places where you find good integration is where the incoming or second/ third generation of immigrant/newcomers has not upset the balance of the host native population.
One other thing is over population and strain on this country and building on green land etc, these issues are never spoken about by our politicians and I am glad to see that this is brought up by yourselves as this has to be addressed.
I have gone a bit of a rant so will cut this short, (I only intended to pass on my feelings on Sir Andrew Green's appearance on Q' time!) my feelings and views are only brought on by what I have seen and heard by speaking to people from many different areas within our country and I treat all people I meet as an individual but feel strongly that every country needs to keep some form of identity and that this is under great threat in Great Britain."
January 2006
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