SOMETIMES I do not know which is worse: the shamelessness, the cynicism or the complete lack of self-awareness demonstrated by the UK Government.
Theresa May announces that there will be an annual Stephen Lawrence Day. Did she really not reflect on the fact that, if the racist thugs had not cruelly murdered Stephen Lawrence in the 1990s, then it is entirely possible that UK officials, implementing the policies framed during her spell as Home Secretary, might well have been trying to deport him 20 or so years later?
This moral blindness extends to the wider Establishment too. In the same week as the BBC airs a three-part documentary on the Stephen Lawrence tragedy as “the murder that changed a country”, it has been reporting in its news bulletins on policies in which, I suggest, Lord MacPherson would surely have recognised the institutional racism he detected in the Metropolitan Police in the 1990s.
Gavin Brown
Linlithgow
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