Britain's Racist Election

So much for there ever having been a taboo against discussing immigration. When was that, exactly?

Moreover, as recently as 2003, New Labour, as it then was, refused even to go through the selection process for fear of allowing me to stand as a local council candidate. You see, I was, as I still am, mixed-race.

A somewhat unthinking, but impeccably Caucasian, member of the then Government Chief Whip's staff was imposed instead. He was humiliated at at the polls, but later served (or, at any rate, was salaried) as Regional Director of the Labour Party, from which he has since been demoted.

He was not shortlisted for the parliamentary seat from which his former employer was retiring last time. Indeed, an all-women shortlist was imposed in order to stop him, even though the seat had voluntarily had a woman MP since 1987. That shortlist, it must be said, has given us a first rate parliamentarian.

For several years, he regularly posted, or sought to post, racist abuse on this site, along with hilarious errors such as that The Sound of Music could not have been based on facts because Austria was landlocked, and that "the conservative Colbert" was a reference to The Colbert Report.

He had his relatives assault me in the street. There was also some sort of tie to the Ku Klux Klan, although the details escape me through the intervening years of major surgery and of heavy medication. But I must emphasise that he has not caused any of my illnesses. He wishes.

He later gave up his seat on the Parish Council, after having been given its Chairmanship as a consolation prize and in order to suck up to his boss, over the heads of almost every other member, most of whom would have had prior claims to it if it were to have passed out of the usual hands, as it did.

But, at 38, his chance of ever again holding elected public office is now effectively nil.

My heart bleeds.