Politicians need to "wake up" to the problem of corruption in ethnic minority communities, the Government's senior law officer has warned. Attorney General Dominic Grieve said he was referring "mainly to the Pakistani community" in his comments.
After reading this piece on the Sky News website here, I was little bit well, flabbergasted to honest. How a man, who is involved in arguably the most corrupt business in the world, can point his finger towards any other group of people and shout "corrupt" is beyond me.
Having grown up in Bradford myself, I can understand the presumption that those communities are closed off and self serving. Certainly, within the two schools I attended there was an underlying current of racism, which flowed both ways. However, considering that this was the early nineties and the Gulf War was happening, I suppose it was to be expected. Once you looked beyond the little boys merely repeating the words of their fathers', I found those children to be no different than I, learning to make their was through life, certainly no more "corrupt" than their white class mates.
What makes Grieve's comments incredulous to me is that they come off the back of the expenses scandal (didn't the Tories' fiddle their expenses more than any other party?), not to mention the whole "Pleb-gate" debacle, where we discovered our own Police Force has corrupting influences.
While I am not suggesting that we should not point fingers and out those groups in our society that we know to be dodgy, I do think that those pointing the fingers should at least have clean hands whilst doing so.
