CONGRATULATIONS on your call for Burnley and Pendle Racial Equality Council to sort itself out. (LET, Opinion, July 23).

I am tired of the bully-boy tactics of the REC. It is nothing short of a dictatorship, run by a 'racist' minority.

Only 29 per cent of its staff is white; the rest are from the ethnic minorities. Thus the REC practises racial discrimination itself.

In 1995, the costly Commission for Racial Equality produced a 'factsheet' on racism faced by ethnic solicitors in England. They dropped the pamphlet when their errors were pointed out.

After 30 years, increasing numbers of Americans want to be rid of the USA's equivalent of the REC, accusing it of sowing discord instead of promoting racial harmony.

When will our MPs wake up to the damage being done to our society by these race relations entrepreneurs?

BERT HARDWICK, Warner Street, Accrington.

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