Interesting news out of Germany this morning as the authorities there finally accept that multiculturalism doesn't work. One wonders whether the German people are smart enough to realise that Angela Merkel is just trying to tag the issue and has no intention whatsoever of doing anything about it.
Multiculturalism has failed, says German Chancellor Merkel
As an anti-immigration wave is sweeping in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel has made controversial remarks on multiculturalism.
"The approach to (build) a multicultural (society) and to live side-by-side and to enjoy each other has failed, utterly failed," said Merkel.
She said this to a gathering of youths of her party Christian Democractic Union, in reference to German President Christian Wulff's recent remarks that Islam was part of Germany like Christianity and Judaism.
Going with the present anti-immigration sentiment in Germany, where over 30 per cent people in a poll felt Germany was being run by foreigners, Merkel said immigrants should learn to speak German
In wanting to provide you with an example of Britain's utterly failed multicultural regime, the pages of this morning's Sunday Telegraph do the job rather well. The irony is that none will face prosecution despite the sums involved whereas the EHRC is using public money to try and put me in prison for campaigning to stop multiculturalism.
Expenses scandal: three face suspension from House of Lords
Three peers investigated over their expenses claims face suspension from the House of Lords and repayment of tens of thousands of pounds, The Sunday Telegraph has learned.
Lord Paul, Baroness Uddin and Lord Bhatia – two Labour peers and a cross-bencher – are expected to be officially recommended for censure in a statement tomorrow by the House of Lords authorities.
Baroness Uddin, a Labour peer and the first Muslim woman to be appointed to the upper house, is set to be suspended from the Lords for between a year and 18 months, and has agreed to pay back £125,000 in wrongly claimed expenses.
Lord Paul, another Labour peer and a major party donor, has been recommended for a suspension of between four and six months and has agreed to pay back £40,000.
Lord Bhatia, who sits as a cross-bencher but has also donated money to Labour, faces a ban of between six and 12 months and is to repay voluntarily £27,000.
