Michael Gove appoints apparent racist to advise on ‘levelling-up’ plan
Paul Collier: does his appointment make Michael Gove’s ‘Levelling Up’ project racist?
Is this an admission that Boris Johnson’s Tory government intends to treat non-white citizens as second-class (or worse)?
It seems so.
Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Levelling Up (as if that title means anything), has appointed Paul Collier to advise him on his plan for the nation.
The development economist at Oxford University is infamous for having claimed that immigration has made indigenous British people a “minority” in London.
He also said nobody born in the UK but with even one parent who was an immigrant should consider themselves indigenous, and that people born of immigrants who had been here longer may only call themselves indigenous if they have integrated into society.
And this is the man Gove wants to advise on the 12 points of his “Levelling Up” plan, including schemes to improve everything from pay, jobs, research and development spending and transport connectivity in struggling areas, to “restoring local pride”.
Does this mean the only people who’ll receive “Levelling Up” help are those who can trace their ancestry back to Alfred the Great? I think even the Queen might have a problem with that.
It certainly seems geared to exclude large numbers of the population on the basis of race.
And this would fit with the Johnson government’s fascism, as it would identify ethnic minorities as enemies who may deprive areas of “Levelling Up” funding, in a bid to unify Collier’s “indigenous” people against them.
Source: Professor who suggested non-white Britons not ‘indigenous’ to advise Gove on levelling-up plan
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EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE A LOOK AT GOVES ATTEMPT AT STAND UP COMIDE ON ”YOUTUBE ” WHEN HE WAS A STUDENT . HE WAS LIKENING PRINCE CHARLES TO ”HITLER” SAYING THEY LIKED SIMILAR THINGS . HE HAS NOW BECOME A STAND UP COMICAL MEMBER OF THE ”NASTY PARTY”
Given little england since time immemorial constantly had numerous migrants moving to this country I suspect even Alfred the Great was a ‘foreigner!’ Even before the Romans invaded and colonised little england there were tribes who migrated to little england!
Fascist tories have always been xenophobic and racist and one need only look at how the fascist tories are demonising refugees who dare to set foot on the’sacred soil of little england!;
There are certain fascist tory ministers who are not ‘indigenous’ so will they too be tossed out of their racist and xenophobic party?