Sir: So 'it is all a matter of numbers' is
it, Mr . Raven (3 January)? Here are some numbers, .then. Assuming that there are four people to every coloured immigrant household, there are ,about 300,000 such households in Britain. Sup- posing that all these households have white ones on both sides, there are 600,000 white house- holds or 2,400,000 white people next door to coloured people, at most.
Thus, if the British people voted, in the referendum Mr Raven proposes, 'for the reduc- lion of the immigration population already here' (a rather euphemistic phrase), it would be entirely on the grounds of prejudice, since such a small proportion of the white population has come into really intimate contact with the coloured immigrant.
I am a first-generation Englishman. I am also a Jew. Someone once told me he hated Jews (including me) because 'They don't eat pork on Sundays, or something.' I hope I would not be obliged to leave the country because the majority of pure-blooded Englishmen thought that Jews 'don't eat pork on Sundays, or some- thing.' I see no reason why coloured people should leave the country because of similarly ignorant misconceptions of them.
Anthony Daniels
8 Kings Court, Kings Drive, Wembley Park, Middlesex
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