“This is a political matter. My vote is not going to support inflitration by extremists.”

Indeed it isn’t however or whether you cast it.

Civil Service recruitment and promition is every bit as arms length from Ministers as Police recruitment and promotion. Its the Civil Service management you need to influence; that does not include Ministers.

In terms of dubious infiltration of political parties, your concerns would be better addressed to Conservatives and even more to Liberal Democrats. They don’t even expect their members to give a genuine address.

Stanislaw,
These people have quite literally betrayed this country for sleazy reasons, namely personal advancement.
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I would agree with that summary.

I don’t know how we stop the next government doing it. They will, if they possibly can.

journeyman,
don’t talk such rot. I am as far from being a fan of Bendit-Cohen as it is possible to be, and I have never had anything to do with polytechnical leftism.
I do, in fact, agree with your post of 26.11, 5:26.

It fetes and funds the crazy and dangerous elements like the MCB and amazingly, even the Hizbi school (all too often represented by swaggering macho figures) and cuts off crucial funding to the organisations doing truly valuable work aiding the most vulnerable muslims, which turn out to be, unsurprisingly, women’s groups like IkWRO helping other muslim women and children at risk of forced marriage, domestic violence and honour killing. Yours is a government that ‘respects’ lodmouth fundamentalists and rewards extremism and violence. It regards people as Hafeez as the normal, default muslim with whom it can do business.

Read this :

http://www.ikwro.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=348:ikwro-suffers-another-funding-blow&catid=27&Itemid=37

And after gnashing your teeth, at least sign and circulate the petition :

http://www.louder.org.uk/OTScampaign/

I am having difficulty posting and this is a re-post which must be brief.

This is a political matter. My vote is not going to support inflitration by extremists.

Best Wishes.

P.S. journeyman. You made a good point and well. Ignore the weasels.

“I am one very fed up life long Labour voter who is going to write to the party about this and demand action to remove people who have clearly and unequivocally distanced themselves from the open society.”

You’d be better off writing to the Permanent Secretary of the relevant Government Department. Ministers don’t hire & fire Civil Servants. You know, in the same way that Ministers don’t hire & fire Superintendents of Police or Majors in the Army.

If there is a happier climate for social cohesion in this country in, say, forty years time, it will have been not because of but greatly despite the cynical, cowardly and stupid ’strategies’ of Brown, Balls, Denham and co.