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Default Tory election position. Scum.
[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13072509 ]Cable says Cameron immigration comments 'very unwise'[/url]
"I do understand there is an election coming but talk of mass immigration risks inflaming the extremism to which he and I are both strongly opposed."Mr Cable has spoken out on several occasions about the economic dangers of a cap on immigration and is seen as having secured some concessions on the policy.
"Much of the remaining immigration from outside the European Union is crucial to British recovery and growth," he added.
"That's why the cabinet collectively agreed to support British business and British universities by exempting overseas students and essential staff from the cap on Non-EU immigration."
Right Wing Government in Not Being Very Tolerant Shocka!!!
Lowest Commom Denominator politics as usual from the Tories. Specifically tagtetted at not-very-bright people.
They must be desperate to win over a few potential BNP votes in Blackburn and Oldham at the local elections eh? In the vain hope that it might stop them from being completely wiped out in any constituency north of Watford. Pathetic and nasty. Same old, same old.... 🙄
Yep, Tory policy is and always been to prey on the weak/disadvantaged/non white and support theorems classes.
Agreed - unprincipled opportunist scum, but it was ever thus.
Also, I have to say Labour (whether new, old or merely mouldy) has been almost equally prone to this kind of jingoistic claptrap, and wrapping itself in the union jack.
The real question is how we go about developing an internationalist alternative which is more than just pious - ie why it is in the interest of British workers to see foreign workers as friends, and our own home-grown bosses and rulers as the real problem.
Now this should start the hare running...........
They ere indeed our friends. I just wish they wouldn't leave their Tyskie tins all over the place.
I know what you're saying dekadanse. There's a rich irony here. One of the main reasons for large scale immigration recently has been skills shortages in key areas during the boom. Hence Polish plumbers etc. So the route of the problem lies in better training and education for 'British' people
So while palying the immigration card, what are this shower simultaneously doing
• Cutting the EMA, discouraging young people staying on at college
• Pricing University education out of reach of all but the upper middle/upper classes (or ironically foreign students who can afford the fees)
Teh trouble is that the kind of people who will go for this xenophobic claptrap are exactly the people who Tory policy will hit hardest
dekadanse - just for you...
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Also, I have to say Labour (whether new, old or merely mouldy) has been almost equally prone to this kind of jingoistic claptrap, and wrapping itself in the union jack.
Really ? ....... where do you get that from ?
The first waves of immigration in modern times occurred under Old Labour and Tory One Nation governments. The Empire was surrendered mostly without a fight, in what Harold Macmillan described as the "Wind of Change". There was no jingoistic claptrap and wrapping in the union jack by either Old Tories or Old Labour. That all changed in 1979 when Thatcher very successfully pulled the rug from under the National Front with a highly opportunistic reference to Britain being "swamped".
Soviet propaganda aside....
...standard Tory oversimplificaiton. Damian Green was far from convincing on the Today Programme this morning. He did the usual trick of extraploating a genral rule based on a singular example.
It's a cheap tactic - we're kicking you in the heads, poor people, but it isn't reall our fault it's the darkies and Poles coming over here taking all your jobs.
Every year I age, every year I loathe more the arrogance of the Tory mindset.
To be fair, the only reason that the tories even got a sniff of power was because labour had been so poor for so long. But it was a bit like turkeys voting for christmas.
well there are elections coming up you can bet the 'average' recently unemployed guardian reading civil servants wont be voting torry so its time to try and get the bnp/edl muslamic infidel haters on board!