London, May 26: The campaign against the coloured in Britain goes on unabated and if the present trend continues, with right-wing reactionaries making the most of it an explosive situation may develop soon.The coloured community has been stunned into a kind of silence, a silence born of fear. Thousands of Asian families here are seriously considering going back home provided economic circumstances permit.But, with the exception of a tiny minority, most Asian families lead a hand-to-mouth existence. Some live comfortably but save little and a lot of them are exploited by British employers as a source of cheap, disciplined labour. They know that white workers in many menial jobs would tend to be callous and “outright lazy” in the words of a white garment factory owner I spoke to the other day.The recent developments raise many questions about Britain’s claim to be a non-racist liberal society. The British media, which are supposed to maintain “high moral standards” and which regard themselves as custodians of the moral and intellectual values of the world, continue to hammer at the race issue in such a way that public opinion is getting highly prejudiced against the coloured.The Labour government is right now fighting a battle of words with Tory right-wing leaders about the number of dependents of coloured British who want to migrate here. Published - May 27, 2026 03:39 am IST