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A week or two ago, I fell into conversation with a constituent,
a middle-aged, quite ordinary working man.
After a sentence or two about the weather, he suddenly said,
If I had the money to go, I wouldn't stay in this country.
I have three children.
I shall be satisfied till I have seen them all settled overseas.
In this country, in fifteen or twenty years time,
the black man will have the whip hand over the white man.
I can already hear the chorus of execration.
How dare I say such a horrible thing?
How dare I stir up trouble and inflame feelings by repeating such a conversation?
The answer is that I do not have the right not to do so.
Here is a decent ordinary fellow Englishman, who in broad daylight in my own town says to me,
his Member of Parliament, that this country will not be worth living in for his children.
I simply do not have the right to shrug my shoulders and think about something else.
What he is saying,