Many Labour supporters see this as a turning point. To me, the moral gush feels calculated and insincere.
This May, the Prime Minister said the UK was becoming “an island of strangers”, then later said he regretted using the phrase. Starmer and his team are adroit shapeshifters.
But all is not what it seems.
She will be harder than anyone on migrants crossing the Channel. She reaches out to people who feel “the country doesn’t work for them”. The country doesn’t work for us minorities either in the present climate. But you know, we are second-class Brits, here on sufferance, always and forever.
Imagine Spain imposing these conditions on Brits who settle there, insisting that they speak Spanish or integrate. Or if Zimbabwe brought in new citizenship tests for settled whites.
She could have acclaimed invaluable immigrant contributions to the nation from when the welfare state was created to now. She could have said sports, medicine, science, construction, business and other sectors depend on those who came to stay.
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In 1968, when Powell was at the height of his popularity, the Labour Government tried to placate his followers by passing an overtly racist act. British passport holders with bloodline links to this country were free to move to the UK without visas; all other subjects had to apply for visas.
The immigration debate has always been about colour, not numbers. Blair and Brown coolly admitted countless EU nationals but clamped down hard on those outside the Union.
I, for example, would not shed a tear if groomers holding dual citizenship were deported. I don’t think it is racist to say that some communities maintain values and lifestyles that should not be tolerated in a liberal democracy.
Labour will need determination and clarity to curtail antisocial forces, protect the democratic rights of all citizens and renew our country.
Starmer and Mahmood did attempt to change the immigration narrative at the conference. But like previous Labour Governments, their policies and doublespeak told another story.
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