A Tory candidate says that uncontrolled immigration has irrevocably changed the country as Enoch Powell said it would, and bemoans 'foreigners' getting 'red carpet' treatment at the expense of locals. This results in Government ministers saying it exposes the "racist underbelly" of the Tory Party.
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister and his Government talk of "British Jobs for British Workers" - a calling card of the white supremest BNP for the past 30 years - and the same Government ministers don't brief against the Prime Minister talking about his underbelly of racism, as such policies are 'devoid' of racism?
In order to understand this you have understand that for the Left it is believed they are incapable of racism. Whilst for the Right it is considered an inherent characteristic. However, the truth is, racism is not the exclusive ownership of one particular conceptual wing of politics, which is why racists can and do exist across the spectrum. Don't expect many politicians to ever admit that though, such dispassionate honesty wouldn't be politically expedient .
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It's also worth remembering that 'British jobs for British workers' is completely illegal.
Having said that, why didn't the Conservative Party go on the attack when Brown originally made those comments - surely they would have been on safe ground by accusing him of being racist?
"The truth is, racism is not the exclusive ownership of one particular conceptual wing of politics, which is why they exist across the spectrum."
Except that, by no stretch of the imagination, could the candidate's remarks be considered 'racism'.
And the ones shouting loudly about it are the ones that know this best.
The two-faced under belly of NuLabor?
Whatever we may think of Brown's remarks and however we slice them up - and don't think that the LP at large are overjoyed at them - your man raised the spectre of Powell on Powell's old stamping ground.
And Powell wasn't saying "There'll be guest workers doing the jobs you don't want to and paying taxes for your old age" he was talking of "Rivers of Blood" was he not.
Powell was a Class A foaming at the mouth xenophobe and trouble maker. And he was of course completely and utterly wrong.
NuLabour is endemically racist - to its own country.
Get this...Hazel Blears accused the Tories of "dithering" over whether to sack him. After the election indecision - pot kettle black?!!
Whilst the Conservative Party has another moment remarkably similar to its grammar schools implosion, due to the unPC nature of selection, the Labour party is having a field day. Why does Cameron even bother to talk about immigration if his party is not going to take it seriously? Is capping the number of immigrants not a lot less PC than agreeing with Enoch?
Since when has it been racist to voice the concerns of your voters,it just exposes the hypocrisy of the political parties but then the concerns of voters only matter on voting day,the rest of the time its P.C. garbage.
I read that Enoch Powell effectively won us the 1970 election with his forthright honesty and straight-talking.
I don't think this person will have the same effect though.
IIRC, the biggest BNP gains of recent times have been in traditional Labour-voting areas - Barking & Dagenham, Burnley, etc, etc.
Which party really has the racist underbelly?
Perhaps Neil could explain why people in Barking and Dagenham turned to the BNP if they thought Labour was also racist?
I assumed the reference to the 'racist underbelly' was referring to the party, not the electorate.
Does that mean you accept it as a truth? Because I would never dream of saying the same about Labour yet I know a few Labour people who come out with the most dodgy racist comments.
The "taking our jobs" mentality is certainly left wing.
Jobs don't 'belong' to anyone.
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