Brexit vote interpreted as green light for racism: Analyst
Press TV has conducted an interview with a senior adviser to London's former mayor, Lee Jasper, and political commentator Andre Walker, both from London, to investigate a report by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) accusing politicians in the United Kingdom of fanning the flames of hate crimes against minority groups in the weeks before and after the Brexit vote on June 23.
Lee Jasper approved claims by the CERD regarding the increasing racial inequality and the hysterical atmosphere created in Britain by the exit vote from the European Union, adding that Brexit has been interpreted by some radical elements within the establishment as “a green light for racism.”
“You have to lay the blame on the kind of poisonous rhetoric that we have seen around the Brexit campaign which has made some ludicrous and quite malicious claims against migrant communities, against Muslim communities and against black communities,” he noted.
Britain is losing its title as one the most tolerant countries in Europe, Jasper underscored, adding the country is now becoming an increasingly hostile place for anybody who is not assumed to be of British origin.
The discussion heated up when Andre Walker accused Jasper of receiving millions of pounds to render Britain as a racist country in the world, adding that “Lee is a professional and his job is to tell the world that Britain is a racist country.”
“It is a crazy situation,” he said. “When I went to the European Parliament, there were nine non-white MPs, eight of whom were from the United Kingdom or Ireland. There were I think three Muslims. Two of them were British conservatives and one of them was a French Algerian who got in because of the electoral system... What is amazing about this is that you are telling one of the least racist countries in the world how racist it is and we see the almost entirely white Christian MPs of the European Union telling the multi-ethnic British MPs that they are all racist.”
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