Monday, February 24, 2014

Prime Minister David Cameron grovels to the Sikhs: 'The Blame Game' by Francis Carr Begbie - "In other words, they [endless apologies to non-Whites] are an essential part of the cultural and moral revolution that has been taking place in Britain since the election of Tony Blair in 1997. In helping to dismantle Britain’s past and destroy the name of the men who built it and who fought to defend it, we are helping to build our post-nation-state multicultural borderless future."


The Blame Game

Prime Minister David Cameron on his visit to Amritsar's Golden Temple where he laid a wreath where Indians were killed by British colonial forces in 1919

When is an apology not an apology? When it is the British government offering “deep regret” for the supposed misdeeds of its imperial forefathers. The latest mea culpa comes from Prime Minister David Cameron who has apologised to the Sikh community for Britain’s supposed role during the massacre at their holiest shrine, the Golden Temple in Amritsar during a hostage crisis in 1985.
This came as a surprise to everyone, including most Sikhs, who were unaware of any British involvement when the Indian army raided the temple during the clashes which took place nearly forty years after Indian independence.
But Prime Minister Cameron has insisted that yes indeed there is something to apologise over. His civil servants had been rooting through the archives and had come up with something suitably incriminating. It turns out that a single British officer was dispatched to the scene at the time of the stand-off and his advice was ignored. So that was the extent of our “colonial interference” on that occasion. Cue fulsome apology. . . .