They ALL Scapegoat Migrants

EXTRACT: Now, we are obliged to point out that Duffy’s remark about “flocking” eastern Europeans did indeed express bigotry or, put another way, chauvinist prejudice. Perhaps they were even reminiscent, you could argue, of Margaret Thatcher’s infamous January 1978 World in action interview, where she talked about how the British people are “afraid” that the country might be “swamped by people with a different culture” - thus undercutting electoral support for the then resurgent National Front. But the plain fact of the matter is that Duffy’s comments differ in no essential way from Brown’s own “British jobs for British workers”. Rather, in reality he helped to sow bigoted ideas, along with all the other mainstream politicians who have promised to ‘get tough on the illegals’ - are we supposed to forget the spectacle of Brown and David Cameron during the leaders’ debate rounding on Nick Clegg in order to denounce the Liberal Democrats’ proposal to offer an amnesty to some illegal migrants? Not that the ‘nice’ Nick Clegg would behave any differently from his two rivals if he were to find himself in a governmental position. Over the years we have witnessed a grotesque Dutch auction of bourgeois politicians outbidding each other in demanding stricter and stricter controls over immigration, Gordon Brown being no exception".
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