Nice of you to notice at last, Ed. A bit late now, though.
We cannot deliver the welfare provisions and the other public services that our people have rightly come to expect unless we know how many people there are in this country, unless we control immigration properly, and unless we insist that everyone use spoken and written English to the necessary level.
Past Labour Governments took action to arrest the importation of a new working class whose members understood no English except commands, knew nothing about workers’ rights in this country, could be deported if they stepped out of line, and, since they had no affinity with any particular locality here, could be moved around at will. Such action was also taken against the enforced bilingualism or multilingualism that transfers economic, social, cultural and political power to a bilingual or multilingual élite, to the exclusion of the English-speaking working class, black and white.
The trade union-based No2EU – Yes To Democracy list at the 2009 European Elections was headed both in the East Midlands and in Yorkshire and the Humber by leaders of the Lindsey oil refinery workers. This recalled the historic role of the trade union closed shop in preventing such abuses, as surely as in guaranteeing to working-class Tories a moderating influence in the selection of the Labour parliamentary candidates for the safe Labour constituencies in which they lived.
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I think part of the problem is that middle-class and upper middle-class people like the cheap labor that immigration brings. Nannies, home nurses, tradesmen, landscapers, etc., all at a low price. They could care less about the working-class people from their own country, in the minds of the affluent or relatively affluent, those folks should have gotten a better education and became professionals or managers. That is the mentality I think we are dealing with.
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