Amazing incite (insight) by this Nigerian Englishman – Rioting causes

yup Dave B.

Dele Ogun came to Britain from Nigeria aged 7. He is now a lawyer,
practising in London and a keen campaigner against the top/down
federalism imposed on Nigeria by British civil servants and against the
top/down federalism imposed on Britain through the EU by British civil
servants and politicians. He has given his permission for this letter to
be circulated.

Edward

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> From: Dele Ogun >
> To: Edward Spalton <edward@spalton.me.uk>
> Subject: RE: [Fwd: [Fwd: Re: Fwd: Rioting - the real reasons]]
> Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 18:35:02 +0100
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> Dear Edward
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> The Nigeria experience shows that it is hard enough to integrate
> cultures within a shared race, it is harder still to integrate races. A
> permanent under-class with a colour badge is always a dangerous thing to
> leave lying around. This was my mother’s take on the matter when I spoke
> with her earlier today (although her words were not so high-browed).
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> These troubles have come as no surprise to me. The seeds were sown in
> the short-sighted post-colonial policies that sponsored and propped-up
> crooks and bad leaders in the former colonies just so that the gravy
> would continue to flow. The Foreign-Office failed to see that the
> children of the lands thus blighted would be left with no alternative
> but to find their way to the Mother country and that unless
> opportunities here were opened up quickly (i.e through affirmative
> action) to absorb the new arrivals, resentment would simmer. If their
> were opportunities in the West Indies and Nigeria etc most of those on
> the streets would not be here.
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> These riots happened on a smaller scale in Tottenham 25 years ago. There
> is every certainty that they will happen again and again with increasing
> incidence and intensity if all that is done is to offer more grants to
> fund youth-centres and mentoring schemes. The solution needs to be much
> more far-sighted. The solution lies where the problem was created, in
> the Foreign Office. It requires a truly ethical foreign-policy that
> recognises a shared interest in a peaceful Britain and in viable former
> colonies. It requires recognising that the tide of immigration is best
> arrested, and then reversed, by advice and support that will leave these
> former colonies viable so as to attract their people back home (which is
> where they really want to be). This is not to be done by DFID giving
> Nigeria, for example, with all our wasted oil-billions, “financial aid”
> but by sharing political experience such as the Devolution Bill to
> manage our own internal contradictions that were created by the colonial
> encounter.
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> Dele Ogun