Jacobtm
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« on: October 26, 2009, 12:38:46 AM » |
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« edited: October 26, 2009, 01:59:26 AM by Jacobtm »
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So if you watched Question Time, you heard everyone lining up against Labour for getting the policy on immigration wrong. They estimated something like 60,000 immigrants would come from central and eastern Europe if they opened their borders to all EU members, but more than 700,000 came.
The representatives for the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives both scolded Labour on this point, though weren't willing to verbally elaborate why this is such a big problem.
To me, it seems like the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives were saying to Labour: If you hadn't let in so many Poles, we wouldn't have had this problem with the BNP gaining support.
I understand that in any country, especially during an economic downturn, you have people complaining that immigrants are taking their jobs. But is racism against Poles and other central/eastern European immigrants particularly strong in Britain, compared to say, racism against Carribeans, South Asians, Africans, etc.?
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