I enjoyed, if that’s the right word, hearing a former apologist for multiculturalism in Britain admit last week that it had been a failure. He said, in a television programme presented by him,  that the policy, carried out extensively by Tony Blair’s New Labour government had not just failed to bring different races and communities closer together but, conversely, had led to greater segregation culminating in atrocities such as the July 2007 London bombings by Muslim extremists and other outrages across the country.

The man concerned was Trevor Phillips, the prime architect of multiculturalism under Blair. He concluded that they had got it all wrong and that it was, after all, acceptable to admit to racial stereotyping and indeed necessary if society is to come to terms and deal with its undoubted differences. He admitted that it is alright to tell the truth and to state racial facts such as, most London pickpockets are Romanians and most victims of murder are black and most of the perpetrators are black also. Of course, he was only saying what anybody with a slight degree of common sense and honesty has always said.

Phillips said that this overriding desire to force multiculturalism on the British people had backfired and in some cases had led to suffering and even death. He gave several examples, one being the case of the poor black child, Victoria Climbie, systematically tortured to death because none of the social workers had the courage to highlight the abuse because the child’s guardians were black. In other words, political correctness and the fear of being accused of racism trumped the life of a child.

Similarly, he admitted what we all know but rarely say (although this blog has referred to it on more than one occasion), that the UK child grooming scandals are the result of sexual and violent crimes committed overwhelmingly by Pakistanis on young white girls. Again, he stated that the fear of accusations of racism prevented authorities (politicians, police and social workers) over a period of as much as ten years from taking action to prevent the commission of the crimes. Yet more innocent lives ruined because of political correctness.

At last, a politician and a decent one at that, with the courage to speak the truth and the courage to (finally) put truth and common sense above political correctness. It helped that Trevor Phillips is black because I suspect that the liberal, left-leaning media would have been outraged if the programme had been presented by a white man. Still, at least it’s a start.