Years of scaremongering by the press, successive governments and opportunist politicians have ensured immigration has become nothing more than a fetid, toxic swamp. Its rotten stink permeates politics as it competes to scapegoat and appear “tough” on people who come to live and work here. Basically, it’s who can fall furthest, fastest into a bottomless […]
Posts Tagged ‘immigration’
Whatever happened to Labour resistance to the Tory rampage?
Oct 22nd, 2013 by Michael Meacher.In case you were wondering, there is no 3-line Labour vote in the Commons this week. It’s true that on two of these days there are four debates organised by the elected Back-Bench Business Committee, though all of them concern important and worthwhile issues. But today (Tuesday) there is a highly contentious debate on an […]
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British Jobs for British Workers?
Aug 14th, 2013 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.One thing’s for certain, Tony wouldn’t have stood for it. The shambolic bungling of today’s “big speech” by shadow immigration spokesperson, Chris Bryant lacked the smooth running of a Blair-era media operation. But Labour getting a handle on employers’ preferences for East European workers from a recognisably labour movement point-of-view would never have passed muster […]
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Countering lies of immigrant scapegoating
May 16th, 2013 by Callum Smith.What do we talk about when we talk about immigration? Better yet, how should we talk about immigration with voters in the run up to the 2015 election? At a recent Next Generation Labour event, titled ‘Challenging the Tory scapegoating of immigrants’ there seemed to be a great deal of consensus around the need to […]
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Can David Cameron ignore the Right of his party for much longer?
Mar 12th, 2013 by Carl Packman.A new set of results from a Guardian/ICM poll has found that the Conservatives would be more appealing to the electorate if they took more hardline positions on social affairs, which will come as a great disappointment both to the political left, as well as loyalists to David Cameron who take a more liberal stance […]
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On the “Connected Nation”: Why Ed Miliband’s speech was on message
Dec 14th, 2012 by Carl Packman.There has been a lot of chat about Ed Miliband’s speech this morning on the social media networks by people who have not read through or heard the speech, so now I’ve read through the transcript I feel in a better place to add comment. Firstly, were this really dog whistle politics designed to please […]
