http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophobia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination
It's very easy to point fingers at conceptual for his comment - I'm not anyone's advocate to determine if they were right or wrong - and most possibly I have done some myself in the past and I could almost bet that most of you that are posting your judgemental comments did it also.
What surprises me here is how out of context it is: this is a thread about whether one should clearly state if it's a fact or an opinion, not a discriminating thread against what British law and attitude was like 200 or 300 years ago and how it reflects after quite a few generations.
Egos, and big ones, that's what it is...