Glad to hear from you again Harker and I fully accept that your comment had no intentional racist overtone. What I was warning - and continue to warn about is a widespread readiness to to be taken in by 'news' items put about by racist bigots and our covertly racist press. Asylum seekers get preferential treatment at our hospitals, don't they? And they get given cars, too - 'everybody' knows that. And Bernie Grant(or Ken Livingstone or the CRE)? Everybody knows the dreadful things they have done or said. We read about it everywhere so it must be true.

Trouble is that this stuff is easy to make up and bigots do just that. And any crap newspaper is hungry to give currency to a vicious story if they think they can get their readers to swallow it. Imho this is a more dangerous and despicable thing than any blacking up in Padstow.