For three years Wolverhampton has managed to get along without a replacement for the Race Equality Council, which folded in 2003 amid controversy and allegations of bullying and racial and sexual discrimination. We haven’t missed it.
There has been no sudden increase in racial problems in the city. But the race equality industry appears to disagree and is now looking to recruit a new chief executive at the not inconsiderable salary of £40,000 a year.
And it gets better. Wolverhampton City Council apparently has £100,000 set aside to support a replacement for the old Race Equality Council.
This is money that could have been spent on schools, rubbish collections, roads and a host of other cash-strapped services. Instead, it is sitting in the council’s coffers waiting to be frittered away on a useless organisation that is nothing more than a relic of the 1970s and 1980s.
We live in a multicultural and racially tolerant city. We have no race riots. We have no BNP councillors. For three years no-one has even noticed that the Racial Equality Council isn’t there.
But the idea of people simply going about their business and getting on with their lives is an anathema to the Labour race industry. Instead, it is looking to give someone £40,000 a year for a non-job. And who’s money is paying for this sop to political correctness? Ours. Because it is always public money that is spent, and it is always the public that fails to see any benefit from it.
The Race Equality Council in Wolverhampton is unwanted and unmissed. It’s time the plug was pulled - there are better ways of spending our money.
Fresh look at kids source of learning
There is a warm glow in the hearts of people of a certain age today at the news that Look and Learn comic is making a comeback. In the 1960s and 1970s this remarkable publication managed to combine fun and learning in its covers, with thrilling tales, science, history and artwork from some of the premier illustrators in the business.
For a new generation brought up on pop pap, footballers’ wives, TV soaps, texting and computer games, Look and Learn is a breath of fresh air from the past. The publishers are taking the best of the 20-year run to create a special of 48 issues packed with original articles and illustrations.
It would be nice to think that its combination of entertainment and education will find a new home among the children of today. But youngsters may find themselves battling their nostalgic parents to get their hands on their issue, as children of the ’60s and ’70s roll back the years and rediscover a little bit of their treasured past.
Do we need race councillors?
For three years Wolverhampton has managed to get along without a replacement for the Race Equality Council, which folded in 2003 amid controversy and allegations of bullying and racial and sexual discrimination. We haven’t missed it.
There has been no sudden increase in racial problems in the city. But the race equality industry appears to disagree and is now looking to recruit a new chief executive at the not inconsiderable salary of £40,000 a year.
And it gets better. Wolverhampton City Council apparently has £100,000 set aside to support a replacement for the old Race Equality Council.
This is money that could have been spent on schools, rubbish collections, roads and a host of other cash-strapped services. Instead, it is sitting in the council’s coffers waiting to be frittered away on a useless organisation that is nothing more than a relic of the 1970s and 1980s.
We live in a multicultural and racially tolerant city. We have no race riots. We have no BNP councillors. For three years no-one has even noticed that the Racial Equality Council isn’t there.
But the idea of people simply going about their business and getting on with their lives is an anathema to the Labour race industry. Instead, it is looking to give someone £40,000 a year for a non-job. And who’s money is paying for this sop to political correctness? Ours. Because it is always public money that is spent, and it is always the public that fails to see any benefit from it.
The Race Equality Council in Wolverhampton is unwanted and unmissed. It’s time the plug was pulled - there are better ways of spending our money.
Fresh look at kids source of learning
There is a warm glow in the hearts of people of a certain age today at the news that Look and Learn comic is making a comeback. In the 1960s and 1970s this remarkable publication managed to combine fun and learning in its covers, with thrilling tales, science, history and artwork from some of the premier illustrators in the business.
For a new generation brought up on pop pap, footballers’ wives, TV soaps, texting and computer games, Look and Learn is a breath of fresh air from the past. The publishers are taking the best of the 20-year run to create a special of 48 issues packed with original articles and illustrations.
It would be nice to think that its combination of entertainment and education will find a new home among the children of today. But youngsters may find themselves battling their nostalgic parents to get their hands on their issue, as children of the ’60s and ’70s roll back the years and rediscover a little bit of their treasured past.
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