Council ranks term ‘British’ with ‘negroes’ and bans it in case it upsets Scots, Welsh and minorities

Neil Sears
DAILY MAIL
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

A race relations quango is warning that the word ‘British’ should be avoided because it is similarly offensive to the words ‘negro’ and ‘half-caste’.

According to the publicly funded organisation – headed by disgraced former Cabinet minister Ron Davies – to use the word British ‘implies a false sense of unity’ that is unwelcomed by people from Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

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Astonishingly, this extremist view is being swallowed wholesale by council and health authorities which use the Valleys Race Equality Council as a trusted consultant.

As a result, council staff and health workers across Wales are struggling to express themselves when trying to describe the people they are working with.

Last night the guidance was condemned as ‘political correctness gone mad’ by Conservative MP David Davies.

Yet the advice from the Valleys Race Equality Council (Valrec) has in fact been circulated for some time, and has only come into the public eye after being adopted by Caerphilly council, near Cardiff in south Wales

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