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02/18/2008: "Forced multiculturalism in elected reps in the UK"

White candidates should be barred from standing for Parliament in up to eight constituencies in order to get more black and Asian MPs elected, says a controversial report commissioned by Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman.

Positive discrimination is illegal in the UK, but the report concludes that, without a change in the law allowing parties to impose all-black shortlists, it would take more than 75 years for Britain's ethnic make-up to be fairly reflected at Westminster.

[ Must adjust reality to meet expectations, not the other way around. That used to be called "insanity." It will be again. ]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/feb/10/harrietharman.labour