Well it had to happen one day. A Conservative MP (or rather a candidate) would not be able to resist stating that Britain would 'end up this way'. Allegedly overrun with foreigners and immigrants 'Enoch was right...' he claimed in a recent newspaper article. Now Nigel Hastilow, due to contest a marginal West Midlands seat at the next election, has apparently resigned his candidature. Good.

There are ways to say things without them being taken as racially motivated. I am racially motivated or rather 'multi-racially' motivated and I agree that Britain has changed forever and for the better.

Maybe Enoch Powell, who first stated among other inflammatory remarks, ‘…that the country will not be worth living in for his children…’ in a speech on 20 April, 1968 as cabinet minister and member of parliament for Wolverhampton South West, was hoping for a better press than he got at the time. He also lost his cabinet post over the affair.

So just how do you say there are too many immigrants coming into the country without racially offending? Well before you open your mouth you have to understand the issues at stake.

There are still many individuals , and it would seem that Mr Hastilow is one such person, together with some institutions in Britain that believe in the existence of what I always refer to as the 'village culture'. If it exists at all then it must be in a parallel universe and its inhabitants are suffering from acute delusion.

If you are stupid enough to refer to Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech, then you are exposing yourself to all sorts of mis-interpretation and reprimand. I do not believe though, that Mr Hastilow is stupid. To refer to Powell in this context, you are in effect appealing to your fellow 'village people' to be counted not least at the next election.

Timed to coincide with the Tory leaders efforts to distance themselves from racially motivated immigration control, Hastilow has at least been honest in his endeavours to 'curry' favour with the 'village people'.

The issues at stake for Hastilow, are too real. His apparent contempt for multiculturalism (he has been outspoken before on Islam) and all the values it has brought Britain, was too great for him to stay silent. Like those remarks I commented on from Switzerland and Germany, deep-seated prejudices are surfacing in Britain too and it is down to the inhabitants of that parallel universe: village culture!

I am little fooled by Tory rhetoric concerning immigration. We do have to control it there is no doubt, but I mistrust the motives of not necessarily the leadership, but of all those ‘village people’ that form its core.