Tim Newark
“real pressures on services and wages”. But wasn’t it Blair who unleashed mass immigration from Eastern Europe in 2004?
He headed the Government that assured us that only between 5,000 and 13,000 migrants would come to our shores every year to 2010. Instead, it was more like 250,000 annually.
Those apologists for New Labour now like to portray this as just a mistake for which they are sorry. However, in my book Protest Vote, I revealed that this was in fact a deliberate economic policy to create a cheap wages service economy like the US. Ironically, Blair’s open-door migrant policy triggered a series of developments that brought the Labour Party close to ruin.
Mass immigration across the country encouraged the rise of Ukip, which in turn put pressure on then Prime Minister David Cameron to call the referendum on EU membership.
Just as Blair thought he could shut down complaints about mass immigration by falsely labelling its critics “racists”, so Cameron believed his Project Fear would intimidate voters in to compliance. But the bold, courageous British population saw through it. Millions of Labour voters were freed from party loyalties to back Brexit. Labour is now
IN HIS latest speech Blair turned to the language of revolution. Irresponsibly, he calls on British Remainers to “rise up”, when instead, as an elder statesmen, his role should be to calm the situation by calling on everyone to respect the result of the referendum. A result that has now been overwhelmingly endorsed by the House of Commons. How much more democratic can you get?
But Blair is a classic baby boomer brought up on the legend of the street-fighting era of 1968. What he fails to understand completely is that period of liberal revolution is at an end partly thanks to his own poorly judged policies. Now 2016 was the new year of revolution that brushed aside his own pious beliefs and is gaining momentum both sides of the Atlantic.
By standing up to deliver his speech yesterday he may be hoping to resurrect his active role in British politics but in truth he reveals how little he regards the will of the people.
He calls for information to show in “easy to understand ways” how Brexit will be a disaster. That is code for saying that most of us who voted Leave are too dumb to understand what we voted for. That patronising phrase alone should be enough to remind us how totally out of touch Blair is with the mood of the nation and many of Labour’s own voters.
We understood very well that a Leave vote was not just about the EU but about saying goodbye to a generation of arrogant elitist politicians like him.
Carry on Tony, you’re doing a great job for Brexit.
‘He unleashed mass immigration here’