Throughout today (and through into the early hours - for the third time in a week!) I worked on a funding bid to the CEHR on behalf of the Herts BME Partnership. I also worked through some redundancy options to present to our two colleagues next week. I do not look forward to this.
The results from last Thursday’s election provide only a small distraction. We heard on Friday that in the local elections, the Labour Party has almost disappeared apart from in their urban heartlands. Today we learn that in the north of England the BNP has won two seats to the European parliament. This is distressing news and Gordon Brown is at least partly to blame for his stunningly stupid comment about “British jobs for British workers”. Thanks to Gordon and others, stupidity, bigotry and racism have increasingly become an accepted feature of public life; not to me they haven’t.
