On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 06:40:20 +0100, Kay
wrote:

In article , Jupiter
writes

My local Council, in its application form for an allotment, requires,
among other intrusive

and unnecessary questions, to know the
applicant's ethnic origins

Usually not compulsory to answer this. It's there to guard against
unintentional discrimination. How do you know you are not discriminating
if you don't know the applicant's ethnic group?

I never answer that kind of question on principle. None of their
business and also facilitiates illegal positive discrimination and
discrimination against white people. I didn't like racial
classification as formerly used in South Africa and I don't like it
here.

and what the applicant intends to grow on
the allotment.

Could be relevant .... suppose I intended to use my allotment to carry
out breeding experiments on thistles? ;-)

Wouldn't be any worse than the Council's own current experiments in
breeding elderberry, brambles, nettles, couch grass, etc. on the
derelict allotment sites.


Possibly unconnected, or perhaps not, there are
several allotment sites around the town completely unused and badly
overgrown.