Jo Bole So Nihal

With the Sikh New Year this week, and although the BNP has rather amusingly alienated its base by reviving this scheme and thus attacking the race relations legislation, there was a few years ago an admirable Sikh proposal for a Sikh Regiment of the British Army, a proposal which was found to be illegal under that legislation.

It is time to return to this one, with all necessary legislative amendments according. The alternative, if it can be so described, is David Cameron's ruinous plan to give "local community leaders" the right to determine the public holidays and who knows what else, in return for ensuring that their mates fill in all the postal ballot papers in their households so as to benefit the Bullingdon Boys. From the ends of the earth would flock those who would thus entrench for ever these little Khalistans. As well as little Caliphates and little Hindutvas.

So, regiments also based explicitly on other specific ethnic groups originating in the Subcontinent? Why ever not? The British Army has certainly had them before. Very effective they were, too. In fact, the Army still has an entire Brigade like that, and those serving in it certainly were not born and raised in Leicester or Bradford.