A complaint has been made to race relations investigators after Newcastle was described as "hideously white".
The remark was made at a conference by Neil Murphy, a Government official who is working on secondment at Newcastle City Council.
At the same conference, the city council's assistant chief executive, Paul Rubinstein, described the Tyne & Wear area as one of the "whitest" in the North.
Newcastle resident Bryan Allen, 49, has now made a formal complaint to the Commission for Racial Equality claiming the remarks were insulting.
Mr Allen, a former restaurant manager, told the Chronicle he would like both men to apologise to locals.
The row follows a conference to discuss progress on the Northern Way, a Government initiative to close the North-South divide.
During the conference it was claimed the famous Geordie welcome is a myth and attitudes to immigration are holding back the North East.
In short his comment about the famous Geordie welcome being a myth shows him to be a total cuntbubble, the north is one of the friendliest places I have been to.
Drive the city forward how exactly? Forward to ghettos? Forward to Sharia law? More migrants yes thats just what we need. Feed the fuckers benefits and hope they vote Labour is what he meant to say.City officers led a session examining the situation in Tyne & Wear and highlighted the need for more immigration to help develop the economy.
Mr Rubinstein said research showed antagonism towards immigration was stronger in the North East than in any other part of the UK.
"There is a real issue for our city region - which is the whitest, with the possible exception of the Tees Valley, among the Northern Way city regions - to see immigration as positive, and something which will drive the city forward," he said.
"There is this mythology about the famous Geordie welcome - I don't buy that, I'm afraid."
Mr Murphy, an economic adviser on secondment from the Treasury, said: "Newcastle is, to coin a phrase, hideously white. What drives creativity? It's immigration."
No Mr Murphy who drives creativity is low taxes, reduced red tape something this government has failed to do.
You can flood the area with a million dusky sandal wearing jihadis and aside from some worried wildlife and oppressed womenfolk and chopped off hands you won't create a single job.
His remarks echoed those of former BBC boss Greg Dyke, who, five years ago, described the corporation as being "hideously white".
Mr Allen is alleging the comments are racist.
"In my view, every civilised country benefits from the influx of immigrants, integrating within that country's culture, but whether people agree with that or not isn't the point," he said.
"As a nation we have always welcomed immigrants and I found the remarks made at this conference insulting. I believe it was a case of the politically correct brigade going totally over the top.
"I'm sure if someone from a council stated for example `Wolverhampton is hideously black' there would be uproar and rightly so.
"I have lived and worked abroad and see people for what they are and not where they're from."
A spokesman at the Commission for Racial Equality said: "We have received a complaint and that will be dealt with in the normal way through the complaints process."
A council spokesman, said: "The two officers spoke on behalf of the city council during a workshop session at the Northern Way Summit which was very positively received.
"The reported comments stemmed from a question and answer session after the presentation during which a question was asked about barriers to competitiveness.
"In the response a MORI report was referred to which had been shared at numerous conferences and revealed the region's lack of diversity in comparison with other regions.
"The reference to `Geordie welcome' was couched in terms of that welcome not always being universally applied - the MORI poll showing that 23% of people in the North East disagreed with the statement `it is a good thing that Britain is a multi-racial society'. That was the highest rate in the country.
"The `hideously white' comment was prefaced by `to coin a phrase' signalled by the officer in inverted commas. These comments were well understood and received by the audience. Only when reported out of context by the media did they cause some offence.
Strange when pulled up the comments are always referred to as "reported out of context by the media"...
"They were not intended to cause offence however and the city council very much regrets if they were misinterpreted through the media."
There was no comment from Mr Murphy or Mr Rubinstein.
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I want to approach this post in a quizzical way, concentrating on a tale of three Cities, that are no more than forty miles apart - They being: - from North to South: - Newcastle – Sunderland - and Durham.
Now until 1997, this area was always a Labour heartland - The old Labour party would always win most seats fought in this area - No matter what - when - or indeed, where.
In both Newcastle and Durham it pains me to report that nothing much has changed - In the forthcoming General elections New Labour will probably still retain the vast majority of their seats.
But heres the thing!
For whatever reason - since 1997, the populations of Newcastle and Durham have remained consistent. In other words - they have yet to be "Enriched" by this vile government.
Sunderland however, neighbouring both Newcastle and Durham, has won a New Labour "award" for a Bangladeshi ghetto within the heart of its City centre. - And of course being of the Islamic persuasion - these enrichers have sectioned themselves off from the rest of civilisation, - yet demand everything that they possibly can.
Now finally - heres my point...
The future for New Labour in Sunderland, and its surrounding areas, is about as blurred as our Dear leaders vision.
His Junta are haemorrhaging votes in Sunderland like there’s no tomorrow - and no guesses for why that is.
Any way, Lets just assume that our white hating Liberal Elite press ahead regardless, alienating the whole damned area with ever increasing Islamic enclaves - Could this not be seen as political suicide? - Especially if the S.N.P. get their wish and reinvent Scotland as an independent Nation - No Scottish votes - An alienated Northern heartland - It would be hard to imagine a future New Labour government! - No matter how piss poor the Tories may, or may not be!
This post does indicate that New Labour see the rank and file of British people, as no more than detestable cash cows that are to be slowly illuminated from view - but I still can't agree with the B.N.P. Fascist third way policies are Fascist third way
Policies, whether they are being implemented by White hating Liberals or Foreign hating Whites.
In my own opinion, supporting the B.N.P. would be no different to endorsing the sewer left politics implemented in the last eleven years by the odious New Labour.
And surely we're all better than that!!
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