It’s not racist to talk about immigration
At the last election, Labour rubbished our immigration policy as racist. Now, Labour is changing its policy. Why?
Frank Field, the Labour MP and former Labour welfare minister pointed out on today’s Daily Politics that even Labour cannot now ignore the growing concern in the country about the large levels of immigration. A column by Martin Wolf in last month’s Financial Times made the most compelling case about the need to discuss immigration and come up with a credible policy.
So Labour have come up with a “tough” immigration policy, with quotas and work permits. But sadly they have not done their homework, as a superb briefing note from Open Europe points out. Sadly, this is another case of Labour talking tough but acting soft.
H Bray said on October 24th, 2006 at 5:20 pm:
What’s wrong with a plain old single/common market for goods, services, capital AND people. I thought that was the one bit of the EU that yourselves were genuinely keen on?