White British people are being stopped and searched by police under terror laws for no other reason than to provide ‘racial balance’ to their statistics.

This shocking news – evidence of yet more politically correct anti-white madness gripping our nation – was revealed by terror law watchdog Lord Carlile.

The police are “targeting people they have no real reason to suspect to avoid being accused of prejudice,” said Lord Carlile, a Liberal Democrat peer and QC.

“Their self-evidently unmerited searches are a waste of money, a breach of civil liberties and almost certainly unlawful,” he said.

“It is totally wrong for any person to be stopped in order to produce a racial balance in the statistics. There is ample anecdotal evidence that this is happening,” he continued in his annual report on anti-terror laws released yesterday.

Lord Carlile said the arbitrary stopping and searching of white people just to fill in the boxes was a clear misuse of Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 (which allows the police to stop and search anyone in a specific area. Before Section 44, the police could only stop and search individuals if they had ‘reasonable grounds’ and certain criteria were met).

He wrote of cases “where the person stopped is so obviously far from any known terrorism profile that, realistically, there is not the slightest possibility of him/her being a terrorist, and no other feature to justify the stop.”

Lord Carlile later told the BBC, “If, for example, 50 blonde women are stopped who fall nowhere near any intelligence-led terrorism profile, it’s a gross invasion of the civil liberties of those 50 blonde women.”

Officers used the powers to search 125,000 people in 2007/8, up from 42,000 the year before. Only one percent of searches led to an arrest, leading to claims it is being overused.

Black people were eight times more likely and Asians were twice as likely to be stopped and searched as whites.

Muslim and black groups have often complained that they are searched more often, but Lord Carlile said the “ethnic imbalance” was a “proportional consequence” of the fact that the main terror threat was from Islamic extremists.

Last year, the number of whites searched under anti-terror laws went up 185 percent from 25,962 to 73,967, making up two thirds of the total.

* A comment on a daily newspaper’s website sums up the situation: “Next UK idiots will require police to arrest some extra white people without reason to make the prison statistics look OK. Where will this idiotism lead you?”