John, read the article in today's Guardian on what it's like to struggle on the meagre amount paid to those unfortunate enough not to be able to find a job. They're hardly "fraudulent thieving scum", as you so charmingly put it.

Unfortunately, "bigotry" is found in the most surprising places.

The following is an account of the bigotry against the Indian constitution and the idea of rule of law as I have experienced it over the past two decades.

It appears to be gaining some powerful adherents in the UK too.

As somebody who has conscientiously refused to do business the way it "normally" is in so called democratic societies - "Go along to get along" - I will not pay bribes - and who has been almost destroyed for my pains, I would like to believe that plain speaking and straight dealing are a simple and universal human pleasure, that are being relentlessly and rather madly being subdued by the powers that be.

A documented account of my lived experience that follows, and certain obvious conclusions that follow, have been savagely suppressed by Guardian UK .

After months of moderating and publishing my comments, Guardian UK has suddenly and without any notice withdrawn my posting privileges and scrubbed all my earlier ones.

Like some apparatchik of a military junta, Guardian UK has in effect, "disappeared" me.

The Economist wobbles - sometimes scrapping my comments and at other times leaving them on.

bbc.co.uk has published my comment in one blog but would not publish them in the Indian blog.In a form letter they have conveyed their fear that they may be sued for "defamation" !!!!!

Have these eminences of the media seriously scrutinised my claims and found them inadequate ? Absolutely not.

But they do crumble with one phone call from the Prime Minister's Office or someone else.

The Indian media's poppadum panjandrums have said what I have said from the safety of their armchairs.

I am recounting my lived experience, with documentation and am demanding accountability.

Have I acted responsibly and in keeping with the greater good ?

You be the judge.

Have they ?

I have complained to Press Complaints Commission about Guardian UK's "baiting" behaviour.

But the PCC appears to be living in a Pre Magna Carta timewarp.

Despite the clear appearance of bad intent, requiring investigation, it appears to be believe in unfettered monarchial privileges and will not intervene.

The following is the account that appears to have staggered some of the stalwarts of the “free world”:

Twenty years ago – I had the privilege of having conceived, researched, scripted, edited, presented and produced a 37 minute Doordarshan commissioned documentary in Urdu,”Hyderabad. August 1948?, on the circumstances in which the 28 year old editor Shoebullah Khan of an Urdu newspaper, Imroose, was slaughtered, because of his open defiance of the erstwhile Nizam of Hyderabad.

The documentary was acclaimed nationally.

Historians of the calibre of Dr Bipan Chandra commended the meticulous research.

Freedom fighters expressed their gratitude that light had been shone on a chapter of history, which they believed had been obscured.

Among the most epiphanic reviews was the one by Dr Manmohan Singh’s former media adviser, currently editor of Business Standard and fellow Hyderabadi Dr Sanjaya Baru.

Under the informal chairmanship of Dr Abid Hussain, India’s former ambassador to the USA, I was able to organise a petition to the former Prime Minister Dr P V Narasimha Rao.

This resulted in a freedom fighter’s status and pension for the martyr’s wiidow, more than four decades after his supreme sacrifice.

India's editorial class always narcissistic has decayed and is useless.

Like the police in Hindi films, it arrives after all the action is over and then mouths "dialogue'.

Variations of this comment have appeared in almost every major Indian online publication plus in many abroad.

However, not a single editor or reporter has had the professionalism to pick it up and make it "impact".

My credentials are strong and I have taken much trouble to meet many editors personally, usually on impeccable referrals.

Our "know-it-all-in -chiefs" have had nothing but smirks to offer.

When I sought the solidarity of the press, Shekhar Gupta (editor in chief of The Indian Express) advised me, "You cannot go around taking pangas (quarrels) with people, yaar."

Even my comments are mutilated.

Vinod Mehta's "Outlook" has banned my comments on risible grounds.

The Hindu crawled.

It published "spin" by corrupt officials and got hissy with me for pointing out, with evidence, its craven, yellow soul.

The Indian Press (with a solitary exception) blacked out the fervent open letter written by Padma Vibhushan Kaloji Narayana Rao.

That dear man , clear as a bell in his nineties, had laid his head on my shoulder, hugged me and wept.

Tee Hee. all the anti-democrats on parade, wanting to force yet more mass-immigration on an unwilling and unconsulted population. and still they find ways to tell how sophisticated and educated they are for doing so. and to sneer at dissenters.
sadly for them, the establishment which has fostered this mess, is collapsing round its own ears. and now even the fly-blown carcasses of what used to be called the labour and conservatives parties, before they became shell-companies with management structures, h.r. and budgets, but without production workers, are too busy stealing BNP policies to waste time on electoral pacts. thank god for nick clegg, while I may not agree with some of his policies; but the man believes in clear policy statements, full-on debate and referenda on the really big issues.

writeoff:
It may be advisable to take a broader, humanistic "view of staying on topic."

The discussion gathers steam when we attempt to understand the underlying commonalities in seemingly disparate experiences.

When constitutional and other other authorities do not deliver, society as we know it is in parlous state.

And that is not just an individual's problem.

Cheers!

Well said, Tony.
This line of thinking in relation to the repatriation BNP argument always makes me laugh. Pushed to its logical conclusion, the repatriation "solution" is shown to be blatantly absurd!
And Gosh these Anglo-Saxons have been very busy breeding like rabbits,populating vast areas of Earth.A good thing they emigrated! what would we have done with all these people here?

the ultimate conclusion is that we should all go back to Africa since the whole human race comes from there!!How ironic!
So "Enraged brit" why don't you go back to where you come from?

First,the 50 grand is a horrible idea. Intimidation and intolerance work much better. I know that brits regard Americans as "fat,stupid yanks",but this Yank is rooting for the natives. I hope you guys can reclaim your country before it's minaret-mania.

I wouldn't mind £50,000 to go back to Uganda, from the BNP , after all, the Heath Government did welcome Idi Amin when he came to power after a military coup .
I have already earned compensation from my former employer in the UK for victimisation and unfair dismissal (out of Court Settlement) .
I wouldn't mind another £50,000 to add to that from the BNP . LOL

This kind of barmy policy will only create chaos here and abroad.

Small, poor nations such as many African countries would be dangerously destabilised by an influx of British emigrants armed with £50,000 which may be nothing more than 'a tidy amount' in the UK but would make them very rich at home.

I'm sure many people with two British-born parents would be tempted to produce fraudulent papers showing one of their parents was born in, say, Australia and demand to be paid and repatriated.

The money that would be spend on this scheme is far greater than the economic burden immigrants have on the country, even though the BNP would like us to believe that every immigrant is a benefit-thieving criminal.

The majority of decent hard-working first and second generation immigrants who do a great deal of good in British culture and business would probably take this opportunity to not be a part of a BNP run Britain (and remember this will include many white immigrants such as Americans and Australians who I'm sure the BNP would rather see stay). Britain will lose a great deal of talent this way.

The heart will be torn out of multicultural communities. As much as I like real ale, fish and chips and steak pie, I don't like the idea of living in a country where these are the only options and the many cultural and culinary delights brought to us by our immigrant population are banished.

Third generation immigrants will feel cheated. Especially the non-white ones would will be stranded in the UK, left to the mercy of ever more authoritarian BNP attacks on their civil liberties. Racial tension will heighten and riots become commonplace.

Need I go on? I'm sure there's much more.

"We are being colonised and it must stop."

bla-bla-bla

Old Europe, as some of our North American neighbours called us in the recent past, would not be "suffering" from immigration or feeling "colonised" had Old Europe not had so many colonies across the planet on which it built so much of its wealth and power; only to let a whole lot of that literally go up in smoke when it decided to slog it out Napoleonic-style during the First World War.

A whole bunch of the type of people who are at present "colonising" you died to help you on the road to victory, or was that more Germany eventually collapsing from the blockade.

Anyway... Count yourselves lucky that not too many voices are rising up over claims of "reparation" for the plundering of their natural resources, for slavery and induction, or for the continuing imbalance in trade laws which keep people from "developing" countries wanting to paddle upriver to the spring; where all the wealth is; at least that's how Old Europe likes to make itself look when it chooses to "invest" in some exploitative industrial project in those said "developing" nations...

bla-bla-bla, whatever; just open up the debate a bit, look a bit further afield, and stop thinking that what ends up happening in your neighbourhood has only to do with foreigners wanting to colonise you...

the BNP are simply a group of people who are worried about there country.
they have been used and abused by the
corrupt british establishment for the
past 300 years,during that period they were told the british empire was
good for them but it wasnt,the british estalishment raided the world of gold rubber diamonds copper
land oil rubies you name it they stole it,today they sit on there thousand acre estates and let the poor man cope with there legacy.
if you stay here long enough you to will pay for there legacy.

I'm british as far back as I can make out, but give me 50 grand and you won't see me for dust.

fifty grand each to get rid of the morons that write for the New Statesman, and the ant army of retarded Red Guard commentators that post on this site, would be money well spent.

The Liberal Consensus is an artefact of the 20th century - it needs to be dumped in the dustbin of history.

Bye bye lefty assholes.

You are the weakest link.

Goodbye.

Will - America is an example of immigrants not overwhelming the local population? You are joking, aren't you? Spoken to any Apaches, Cheyenne or Iroqois lately? I think you'll find they see things quite differently.
Look - the British population is not breeding. The immigrant population most certainly is. Muslim women for instance are producing about four children to every one produced by our women. This effectively means that our population halves with each generation while their's doubles. How many generations will it take, Will? Work it out.
And finally, a reminder that Mohammad Siddique Khan and his mates were all British born and that it is a well-established fact that many young Muslims are far more radical than their parents. Just think about it. If Muslims cause us so much grief already, when their numbers are comparatiely low - just think what's in store for us when there are millions more of them.
We are heading for a Balkan-style conflict unless things are changed pretty soon. There are already no-go areas for white Britons in the colonised cities of their own country.
I don't want to see the English, the Scots and the Welsh (not to mention the Dutch, Sedes and Norwegians) dispossesed like the Cheyenne, the Apache and the Iroqois. It seems that you do.

As far as discriminating against indigenous Brits is concerned, I think the clue is in the word "Repatriation".