UK Armed forces racist - John Smith an enlightened NULabour MP

UK armed forces 'institutionally racist' - so says John Smith (NuLabour MP) .

""The UK's armed forces are failing to recruit enough ethnic minorities because they are institutionally racist" he claims.

John Smith - who spent four years in the RAF - said it was the only explanation for the fact that less than 10,000 of the UK's 200,000 personnel were from ethnic minorities."


The only explanation!

He added: "I am not saying that people in the armed forces, individuals, are racists. I have no knowledge of that.
"What I am saying is that the armed forces are, by definition, de facto institutionally racist and it's about time this Parliament did something about it."

I tell you what you should do Mr Smith, and that is introduce quotas. That will solve your problem once and for all. That will sort out all the institutional racism once and for all. And whilst we're at it, lets have quotas based on sexuality and maybe even religious beliefs.

Of course, that might be a little problematic for this Government, as it seems that organisations can only be truly institutionally racist when they are "hideously white". I wonder if there are any organisations that under a quota system would be found to be not white enough? Hmm, I wonder.