I was posting it to actually reiterate what VoteBNP was saying. No Kipling was not a bigot - niether am I. I would call myself a Patriot, like Kipling, and I can see many of my views reflected in the BNP, though i'm not a member of the said party.

You say Kipling was born in India - but he was an Englishman through and through - I bet he never claimed to be 'Indian' did he? So why do people who are, say, african, pakistani, chinese etc. claim to be British just because they are born here? If a dog is born in a stable it does not make it a horse does it? If they are as British as we are, does that make us, ethnic British people, as African, pakistani, chinese etc. as they are?