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In this edition of Analysis, Sonia Soda explores how two of the UK's most multicultural places are managing diversity.

Like most British Asians, I'm and managing diversity.

Like most British Asians, I'm a Labour voter.

I've even worked for the party as an advisor to its former leader at Millerband.

But something has been niggling at me for a while. I'm not sure the relationship

between the Labour Party and its ethnic minority supporters has been an altogether healthy

one and I'm not alone. There is a clear evidence of patronage

client politics within the Labour Party in ethnic minority areas throughout

Great Britain whether it's Birmingham or Leicester, I refer to it as rotten multiculturalism,

you know, basically recreating the rotten burrows of the 18th century of piling up votes for favors.

I think far too often particularly labor councils in certain areas have allowed segregation

to take place.

Their politics has been a politics of working with the leaders of

minority communities on the basis that those leaders then deliver the

massive votes of that community at election time.

They haven't put sufficient emphasis on integration.

We are dealing with a problem that I'm afraid too many local authorities are allowed to fester.

Strong stuff there from Matthew Taylor, chair of the Social Integration Commission and a former advisor to Tony Blair,

and from Professor Gropal Singh, an expert in inter-religious relations.

But it's not the first time I've heard people

express these concerns, sometimes openly, sometimes behind closed doors. I'm

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