This intellectual giant has featured in todays news – airing his opinions about the white working class ( although seemingly he considers himself one of them).

According to Eddie, the white working class are their own worst enemy, being addicted to silly ideas like patriotism , for instance. No good ever came from it according to him, and it makes us susceptible to Far Right Nutters.

Far be it from me to contradict, but it couldn’t possibly be anything to do with their own cultural values being denigrated and suppressed, and the numbers of undocumented aliens being supported at the taxpayers expense, could it?

According to Eddie, such immigrant persons have a much more positive mindset about education and opportunity, than the native British. Yet strangely, I am sure I have seen statistics about the high proportion of unemployed immigrants, and the number of children who do not speak English being admitted to schools, who then have to figure out how to include them in lessons.

Obviously I don’t live in his head, although there is probably plenty of room – but it seems to me that he is somehow ashamed of his background and hopes to distance himself from it.

I resent the implication that I could not possibly have made my own mind up unaided about this country and it’s problems. A walk round most towns and cities here will show you those. But I clearly don’t have the intellectual capacity to decide really, due to my socio-economic background and mental limitations.

If the comments in the article are anything to go by. he is going to get a big backlash now…maybe Reform will get another surge in membership!. Well done Eddie, keep up the good work!

MSN

Nominated by Mary Hinge.