NOW, IT SEEMS, WE HAVE the great migrant cover-up orchestrated by the last Labour government. It comes in the form of three reports commissioned at a cost of over £100,000 of public money, only to have them each in turn ‘sat on’ for fear that their conclusions would lead to social tensions.
The three reports concluded what the ordinary men and women in the street could have told the previous government for nothing: that migrant labour depressed wages, put pressure on schools, housing and hospitals.
The reports, that were commissioned between 2008-2010 are now about to be made public by the Coalition, and they will stand as testimony to the utter ruination of our social cohesion by the previous Labour government.
We can all remember the spin that emphasised the economic benefits of large scale migration; and how, following EU enlargement in 2004, we could expect, according to the then Labour government’s estimates, a mere 13,000 East European migrants (mainly from Poland) would come to work here. But as it turned out some 600,000 migrants arrived on our shores; at which time we were spun the economic benefit lie. So it is no wonder that the CBI supports immigration when it depresses the wages having to be paid by its own members.
Immigration was a deliberate attempt at social engineering that came with the added benefit of silencing the party of Enoch Powell. The last Labour government actively encouraged and supported the influx. New Labour had by now turned away from its historical demographic - the white working class. Instead it had become the party representing ethnic minorities, gays and feminists. The white working class was being, in electoral terms, dismissed (usually as bigoted) by New Labour.
New Labour was hoping to harvest the votes among second generation as well as newly arrived immigrants - once the latter had established themselves. By being the party that represented all immigrants including those that had established themselves among us since the end of the Second World War, New Labour hoped to rely upon this multi-million constituency to keep them in power now the white working class had outlived their historical usefulness to the party of labour.
THE WHOLE POLICY TOWARD immigration adopted by Labour was far more than just a mistake as Ed Milliband, the Labour leader, now admits. His admission falls well short of what is required. The last Labour government tried to alter for its own end, the demographic make-up of this country. It replaced Clause IV with the new doctrine of Multiculturalism, that unworkable and much despised template of political correctness that has angered and forced into silence so many people today.
A mistake implies an error; but there was nothing erroneous about New Labour’s decision to embark upon large scale immigration. The Multicultural society was and still is the format by which Labour seeks to govern, and by which all other parties have to comply if they wish to remain electable.
The last Labour government believed at its beginning, that its own working class constituency was in decline; that the party would therefore become historically obsolete, just as happened with the old Liberal Party that preceded them. Unless the party could justify its existence to sufficient numbers of the electorate in the hope of remaining on the political stage as a headline performer, it would suffer the same fate as the old Liberal Party - thus modernisation was born. The party had to reach out beyond its traditional base, and this, over the past 13 years, it has attempted to do.
So any talk of mistakes in the context of immigration, is like comparing immigration with an embarrassingly misplaced comma in an important diplomatic correspondence.
Immigration has become the most important of the public’s concerns about the country they still call their own. We are in a mess that we may never be able to free ourselves from. A mess that in the future may lead to the spilling of much blood as the demographics weave their magic on the stability of the nation - and the Labour Party conjured up this whole mess, for what? A new demographic?
What the Labour Party did between 1997-2010 has effectively to keep themselves alive electorally and find a long term purpose for its existence. Remember, the Labour Party was the child of the trade unionism that was effectively diminished in the 1980s by Margaret Thatcher.
The Labour Party has used immigration as a club to beat the Tories with and to silence with charges of racism any questioning of their immigration policy. They created in their 13 years in office a climate of fear among those of us who dared question, not only such large influxes of migrants, but also the erroneous dogma of Multiculturalism.
THE LABOUR PARTY SHOULD never see government again for what they did with immigration while in office.
Ed Milliband cannot easily dismiss what may turn out to be a revolution in this country’s history, as a mere ‘mistake’. Blunders and slip-ups occur all the time in politics, but they usually amount to nothing more than a resignation.
What is now seeping out with these reports, is the determination of the last Labour government to continue with the process of immigration despite the report’s findings. Why else would they do so if they did not believe wholeheartedly in Multiculturalism?
I believe that New Labour embraced Multiculturalism as the future, while hoping, nay, believing, that large scale influxes of people would garner them, over time, millions of votes.
Tony Blair believed that immigration was the seed-corn for future New Labour prosperity. Immigration was Blair’s answer to the old working class politics that New Labour had outlived; and Multiculturalism, like socialism before it was to become the Party’s new ideology.
We live in interesting times.
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