Genocide by another name? Blunkett, assimilation and the 'Roma question'.

From Pipopotamus

"We have got to change the behaviour and the culture of…the Roma community, because there's going to be an explosion otherwise. We all know that." – David Blunkett.

Change a culture – what does that mean? Assimilation, I expect. Indeed, in recent months the ‘Roma question’ has been at the centre of political debates, media campaigns and televised debates. Fuelled by the impending expiration of the restrictions on Bulgarians and Romanians freedom to live and work in the EU, attention has fallen on the Roma community. It was without surprise that the likes of Nigel Farage, the Daily Mail and the Express have used this as opportunity to foster an anti-immigrant and antiziganist sentiment, yet, when these words come from the mouth of a supposedly ‘left wing’ Labour MP, it is, perhaps, time to start worrying.

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