Segregation is just not the British way

THE FRIDAY THING: WHAT is happening to Great Britain?

We have migrants flooding our towns and cities and bringing with them a tsunami of crime; and we have those who would break up our previously stone-solid commitment to fairness and equality with universities adopting a strategy that demands the separation of male and female students.

This is just not the British way. Those who support segregation of students based entirely on outrageously un-British gender selection might seem trivial to some, but it is not a trivial issue. It goes against many things Britain has always held dear.

Those students who want to come to Britain to study should be adopting the cultural norms of Great Britain and not the mind-sets and attitudes of their homeland. If they can only live in a society where females are, at best, second-class citizens, then they should move to those countries where it is the norm. It is not the norm in Britain.

The justification of this recently-adopted practice of treating female university students as second class while the males enjoy the privilege of taking the seats at the front clearly has its roots in Muslim religious protocols that generally see the female as of less importance than the male.

I have great respect for the Muslim faith and for those who practise it, but what would be the reaction if people from other faiths, or none, began tampering with the religious and social norms of those who hold the Muslim faith most dear?



POLITICAL parties have been searching for some time for a system (or a sugar daddy) that would help them to finance their parties.

Up to now money has come from wealthy donors - some of whom have probably dipped deep to effectively buy a knighthood or open the door to riches and a bright future in the limelight.

BUt the main parties have come up with an alternative strategy: taxpayers’ money.

And where did this idea that we should all pay for our politicians and their political ambitions come from? It came from Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats and was, surprise, surprise, gleefully supported by Chubby Dave and Ed Miliband.

Only the three main parties, it seems, will benefit from the taxpayers’ largesse which leaves the minnows where they have always been... on the outside, looking in.