It suits a disreputable group of scaremongering right-wing politicians that migrants are wrongly blamed for our problems
Blaming the stranger nearby is the politics of hate.
Immigrants who have travelled to Britain are not responsible for low wages, poor working conditions or bad housing.
They often fall victim to bad bosses, evil gangmasters and slum landlords who exploit the newcomers in dirty, unpleasant jobs.
But it suits a disreputable group of scaremongering right-wing politicians that migrants are wrongly blamed for our problems.
Spreading prejudice lets Ukip’s Nigel Farage, and increasingly, alas, David Cameron with his “Go Home” vans, to divide people who are ALL being devoured by an economic system that sucks the lifeblood out of families as living standards plummet.
The woman from Pakistan who dresses differently or the hardworking Pole shopping in the local supermarket are seen and heard by those dealt abad hand.
Hidden behind blinds in Mayfair or security guards in the receptions of City of London office blocks are the financial establishment responsible for the poisonous economy. City trader Farage and stockbroker’s son Cameron protect their own while deliberately inflaming relations between communities.
You could paper your sitting room with reports proving that migrants more than pay their way in Britain.
Yet Cameron’s Cons create vile myths about benefit tourism.
Turbo Tory Farage knows 29 million Romanians and Bulgarians aren’t heading for Britain.
But his party still pushes leaflets through letterboxes which mislead the public. The Nuns-on-the-Run disappearance of terror suspect Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed in a burka was hideously ill-used by a Tory faction to demand a ban on the garment.
I’m no fan of the burka and would love women not to wear face masks. But we wouldn’t set them free by threatening to fine or jail those who, for whatever reason, defy a clothes ban.
Ed Miliband, a son of two migrants, must confront head-on a politics of
despair which thrives on poison.
And it took a decent Conservative, Broxtowe MP Anna Soubry, to show how best to deal with Farage.
The Defence Minister went on the attack on BBC1’s Question Time with her brilliant “you put fear in people’s hearts” denunciation.
The nauseating “Hate not Hope” of the Right withers when confronted.
The low-paid, whether born here or in Timbuktu, have much in common. It’s time for decent people to unite.
You can read more from Kevin Maguire here.
Mirror
Immigrants who have travelled to Britain are not responsible for low wages, poor working conditions or bad housing.
They often fall victim to bad bosses, evil gangmasters and slum landlords who exploit the newcomers in dirty, unpleasant jobs.
But it suits a disreputable group of scaremongering right-wing politicians that migrants are wrongly blamed for our problems.
Spreading prejudice lets Ukip’s Nigel Farage, and increasingly, alas, David Cameron with his “Go Home” vans, to divide people who are ALL being devoured by an economic system that sucks the lifeblood out of families as living standards plummet.
The woman from Pakistan who dresses differently or the hardworking Pole shopping in the local supermarket are seen and heard by those dealt abad hand.
Hidden behind blinds in Mayfair or security guards in the receptions of City of London office blocks are the financial establishment responsible for the poisonous economy. City trader Farage and stockbroker’s son Cameron protect their own while deliberately inflaming relations between communities.
You could paper your sitting room with reports proving that migrants more than pay their way in Britain.
Yet Cameron’s Cons create vile myths about benefit tourism.
Turbo Tory Farage knows 29 million Romanians and Bulgarians aren’t heading for Britain.
But his party still pushes leaflets through letterboxes which mislead the public. The Nuns-on-the-Run disappearance of terror suspect Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed in a burka was hideously ill-used by a Tory faction to demand a ban on the garment.
I’m no fan of the burka and would love women not to wear face masks. But we wouldn’t set them free by threatening to fine or jail those who, for whatever reason, defy a clothes ban.
And calling for burka bans often sounds like a cloak for
Islamophobia, just as denying the Holocaust is a cover for anti-Semitism.
And it took a decent Conservative, Broxtowe MP Anna Soubry, to show how best to deal with Farage.
The Defence Minister went on the attack on BBC1’s Question Time with her brilliant “you put fear in people’s hearts” denunciation.
The nauseating “Hate not Hope” of the Right withers when confronted.
The low-paid, whether born here or in Timbuktu, have much in common. It’s time for decent people to unite.
You can read more from Kevin Maguire here.
Mirror
