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Cameron’s speech is lazy, ill-informed and inflammatory.

From Munich to Hampshire. David Cameron's speech in front of a Conservative audience later this morning will argue that immigration "threatens our way of life", in the non-inflammatory headline of the Torygraph. (You can read the full text by clicking here.)

There are (obvious? cynical? valid?) questions about the timing and tone of the speech. Is this a tactic to divert attention from the coalition's blunders on NHS reform and the nurses' attack on the hapless Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley? Did the Prime Minister's earlier denunciation of Oxford University's manifest failure to admit black students provide him with the requisite "cover" to take a potshot at immigrants? Is his (renewed) focus on forced marriages and English lessons a legitimate and proportionate intervention in a vital area of public policy or a crude dog-whistle to the Tory right and BNP-type voters? I'll leave you to make up your own minds (below the line?) but I can't help but note this tweet from ConservativeHome's Tim Montgomerie:

Increasingly nervous about core Tory vote, Cameron makes immigration speech

Hmm. That's very "responsible" of him. Perhaps the most frustrating and irritating claim that the PM makes in the speech is that Labour ministers "closed down discussion" of immigration. Yawn. As I noted in a post for Comment Is Free during the general election campaign last year:

One of the hardiest myths in British public life is that there is a conspiracy of silence on immigration. Liberals and leftists, it is alleged, have banded together to prevent debate or discussion of "mass immigration" into the UK, caused by Labour's "open-door" policies.

Really? Tell that to the Daily Mail, the Daily Express, the BBC, Channel 4, Michael Howard, Phil Woolas, MigrationWatch – the list is endless.

And in an excellent and informative post this morning, Sunder Katwala of the Fabians says:

The idea that debate about immigration has been silenced and closed down in Britain is a pervasive myth.

But, as a matter of fact, it can be easily disproved if one goes and looks at what politicians said and did throughout the period, or reviewing the endless noisy public debates about immigration, and volumes of legislation on immigration (broadly in a restrictive direction) under almost every postwar government, whether Conservative or Labour. I published a Comment Is Free post, "The Enoch myth", in 2008, offering chapter and verse, which proves beyond any reasonable doubt just how noisy these decades of supposed silenced debate always were. (Cameron, perhaps prey to the myth, says in his speech: "I remember when immigration wasn't a central political issue in our country – and I want that to be the case again." I wonder if he could cite any five- or ten-year postwar period which he has in mind when he claims that?)

It is interesting to reflect on the drivers of the sense of political disconnection which means that this is widely believed but that is a very different thing from the myth being true.

Cameron directly echoes Michael Howard's election posters in 2005, which proved somewhat less effective than the Conservatives hoped at the time, and which had the rather odd aim of starting a debate about immigration which will not be distracted by allegations of racism by starting a debate about racism and being silenced, rather more than to start a frank and rational public debate about immigration itself.

It was rather odd to claim that the other major party was treating all discussion of immigration as verboten – because I clearly recall that Labour had election posters in 2005 which proclaimed in bold, primary colours "Your Country's Border's Safe", and it would be to rewrite history rather spectacularly to claim that Labour home secretaries such as Jack Straw or David Blunkett did not speak about immigration.

But, let's be honest, or "frank", as the Prime Minister likes to say: this isn't about immigration. This is about Cameron.

As Anthony Painter notes over at LabourList:

David Cameron is in trouble. And when he's in trouble, he panics and presses the race, identity, welfare and immigration buttons.

125 comments

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Mr. Divine's picture

hiya stu, did you accept my invitation?

Stuart Hatfield's picture

I agree with you fully that immigration has had many positives. England has always welcomed immigrants, but not in the numbers we have seen over the past decade.

The majority of British people feel that immigration is out of control - why ? because we don't have the resources or the organisational will to provide all newcomers with a house, a job, a hospital bed when needed, a doctor,
a dentist, a social worker, a "diversity champion", a "mobility awareness officer". etc etc. Half a million people are entering the country every year. With 2.5 million unemployed, we don't need any more potential job seekers.

The majority also feel that too many people have been allowed to come to the UK - there was an open door policy that Labour now deny ever existed. The same Labour that now want to know why the people they allowed in
are not getting the same opportunities as someone who was born here. Even foreigners who arrived here more than a decade ago think we allow too many people in. Ask around and see how indians and pakistanis have
reacted to the influx of Eastern Europeans into Bradford.

NONE of the three major parties will acknowledge or address this vast change to our country. Most Lancashire and West Yorkshire towns are now predominantly black or Asian and this will only increase.
Nearly all of our inner city schools are the same. Why didn't Labour tell us this would happen ? How is this change a good thing ?
At present, my perception is that 55 million British people are being forced into doing all that they can to fit in with 2 million new arrivals.

Virtually 100 per cent of all resource to tackle racism is directed at white people and our need to understand the new arrivals' culture, language and religion. I see no work being done to address black racism.

Can we talk about knife crime, gun crime, drug dealing, honour killings, muslim efforts to vote in muslim councillors and politicians under Operation Vote Muslim, muslim postal voting fraud, benefit fraud, people arriving
in the UK pretending to be victims of torture, fake university courses, failed asylum seekers that stay anyway, sham marriages, a Human Rights Act that now means we cannot deport murderers, a maternity system 'bursting at the seems', a critical housing shortages despite a falling UK birth rate, arranged marriages, cultural and religious differences that break the Human Rights Act, why are so many new TV presenters Indian women, why do adverts 'produce place' black or Asian people ?

No, it seems we cannot comment on or criticise the huge changes that have happened here without being called racist or bigoted.
How would other countries react to the huge sea change we have seen in the UK ? Would we be shown a level of tolerance ?

With no major party to address this, isn't it about time we had a proper debate on why the majority of British people have not responded in the way the government want us to ? By the way, bussing in black and Asians to shout
at Nick Griffin on BBC's "Question Time" is not a balanced debate.

Mr. Divine's picture

What about you mitchy, do you still want to join that group?

Ben's picture

'Britain can quite easily accommodate another 200 million people without any problems whatsoever. Cameron as Mehdi points out is fear mongering to gain support. The more immigration the better.'

I hope this is sarcasm?

Cameron was right to speak out about immigration. Recent polls have indicated that a majority of British citizens oppose any further significant immigration, and want stricter immigration controls.

But democracy and the will of the people do not sit well for Mehdi and the little gang of multicultural hucksters. They realize that, after decades of failed social engineering, the tide is turning against them, and they can't have that, so they dig in their heels and cry 'racist! alarmist! xenophobic! islamophobic!' and whichever of the latest buzz-words they've invented.

Mass immigration has brought no benefit to the UK whatsoever. Zilch, nada. migrationwatchuk.org has repeatedly banished the myths surrounding immigration. Clearly some migrants bring economic benefit to the UK but, taken as a whole, what they add to production is counter-balanced by their addition to the population. The only major inquiry ever conducted in the UK was carried out by the Economic Affairs Committee of the House of Lords in 2007/08. In April 2008 they reported that "We have found no evidence for the argument, made by the government, business and many others, that net immigration - immigration minus emigration - generates significant economic benefits for the existing UK population." As regards the contribution of migrants to the Exchequer, they concluded that "The overall fiscal impact of immigration is likely to be small, though this masks significant variations across different immigrant groups."

Furthermore, almost all increase in the UK's population between now and 2029 will be down to immigration and immigrant families. The fact is, Europe and Britain's populations are declining, and being remorselessly supplanted by a surging Muslim demographic. Recent studies have shown whites may well be a minority in Britain by 2066 - and this notion was vehemently opposed by the vast majority of Brits in a follow up poll. These shifting demographics, particularly in favour of self-segregating Muslim minorities, is not a recipe for societal cohesion. Mehdi is simply trying to pull the wool over our eyes in the meantime, because this shift in favour of Islam works for him.

He's a lair, a peddler of myths, and in my opinion engages in taqiyya (lying to the disbeliever) in order to wage stealth-jihad. Mehdi is just a closet-Islamist and shouldn't be taken seriously.

He has been recorded, live on camera, stating that atheists are 'people of no intelligence' and that 'the kaffar, the disbelievers' are 'cattle'.

This has been meticulously documented here:

http://hurryupharry.org/2009/07/24/medhi-hasan-exposed-part-...–-atheists-and-disbelievers-are-“cattle”-and-“of-no-intelligence”/

Amit-Atlanta-USA's picture

If at all Europe is serious about safeguarding even REMNANTS of its great Judo-Christian heritage, they should put an end to immigration of UNADAPTABLE people, and NEVER EVER allow Islamic Turkey into the EU. That will only enhance the greater Islamization of Europe and also America by opening the FLOODGATES. Islamic apologists like CNN's FAREED ZAKARIA want just that!!!

Amit-Atlanta-USA

Stuart Eels's picture

A bit damp and cold down there in those tunnels the last time I was there Mr Divine, lets get off down to Ehtch Tee's have a cuppa and talk about his coal mines.

Ben's picture

A liar* (typo).

Mr. Divine's picture

Britain can quite easily accommodate another 200 million people without any problems whatsoever. Cameron as Mehdi points out is fear mongering to gain support. The more immigration the better.

la potenza della speranza's picture

Luddite

Certainly in his economic policies and his decimation of the state.

Stuart Eels's picture

Hello Mr Divine, I would love to accept such an invitation but but being an old cynic I'm thinking whats the catch. what is the catch?

Going back to the debate which as usual has degerated into name calling, I reckon that Aussie could take, well lets say 200 million such a vast land.

jie4v7i14's picture

Luddite, Mr. Divine is a sheep farmer in Oz, while now have to put up with the blarrr from nes born lmbs behing me.

Song for you Luddite, to show my love for sheep,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UbSmSpfyt4

Luddite's picture

la potenza della speranza. An all suffocating state is not socialism.

One should asked ourselves a question, with around 1 million young people between the ages of 16-24 out of full time employment or actively seeking work, is it right to allow mass-immigration of any economic migrants into the country at all?

Stuart Eels's picture

Mr Divine

Maybe we can Dan Hodges to bring the Fairy Liquid and Ms Penny the hot air to dry them over to you Ehtch Tee for hot water.

sianushka's picture

If David Cameron cared about forced marriage the govt cuts wouldn't be leading to cuts to domestic violence support services. They also just cut the post dedicated to ending FGM in the UK. It's just a rhetorical device to make us think that he cares about women's welfare. it's BS.

sianushka's picture

Sorry, i know that it isn't really the point, but i am sick of women being used as a rhetorical device by the government when they're policies are doing so much harm.

In other news, this post is spot on.

David Vinter's picture

Since the UK only grows half its own food, by definition every extra immigrant reduces food for the rest of us!

SR819's picture

I don't like Cameron but he's spot on with his comments. And my opinion is not a fringe one, you only need to read the comments section of any article on the Guardian, and you can see that the majority of comments are anti-immigration, and this from the bastion of liberal thought in this country. Look at this article from John Harris, in the Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/13/gillian-duffy-nick-c...

The vast majority of comments underneath are anti-immigration. There was another article by Madeleine Bunting that had many anti-immigrant comments underneath it.

Face it, immigration has been had unpleasant consequences for this country. It has led to white, working class males being undercut in the labour market, intense pressure being placed on public services and the NHS, and a deep sense of unfairness has developed amongst the indigenous population of this country, seeing ethnic minorities jump the housing queue ahead of people who've lived in their communities for 20 years or more.

We need to have an honest debate on immigration, and people who are concerned with immigration shouldn't be branded racist. I am not a racist, I have nothing against anyone of a different skin colour, but I don't know why the rights of immigrants should be placed above the rights of the indigenous population. Moreover, the reasons why many (not all) immigrants come to this country is selfish (i.e. to make more money than they could back home) so why should the so called "left" defend them?

What I find most embarrassing are the Trade Union leaders, all of whom are unashamedly pro immigration, even though immigration has had such an adverse effect on the people they're supposed to represent, the White working classes.

Sciamachy's picture

SR819 - you ask what good immigration does for us. According to the Right-wing Libertarian think tank, the Adam Smith Institute, who are usually very ready to back up the Tories & who monitor economic trends closely, immigration pushes wages *up* in the long term, not down. The effect on the UK of immigration is equivalent to a drop of 1% in the income tax rate, because bottom line, immigrants pay more into the Treasury than they use up in welfare/healthcare etc. They bring technological innovation, a can-do attitude & a decent work ethic. If a right-wing think tank like ASI are agreeing with the Lefties, and the Tories are left isolated with only the EDL & BNP for company, who d'you think's right?

RK's picture

la potenza, last I checked all those employers who had money trees from where they could pluck money and distribute were hanged by the same tree.

Are there any left, those you know and i dont?

Mr. Divine's picture

Make it 900 million Stuart.

Mr. Divine's picture

Plenty of space for people in the West Country around Dartmoor. Huge underground tunnels of inhabitation powered by solar, wind and thermal energy. Coming to where you live now.

Mr. Divine's picture

You tell me what's the catch?

Rob's picture

Sciamachy, there really is nothing "left wing" (as far as I understand the term) about high levels of immigration.

Its funny, the right usually wants to have few controls on the movement of capital, but strong controls on labur movement, and there are sections of the left (all urban middle class, I suspect) who want to oppostite: control capital but let people migrate.

Of course, the truth is that unrestricted immigration, or "hot money" can both cause damage to society.

I am not convinced about the economic arguments in favour of high immigraton. In any case the increase in GDP is marginal. The costs - over crowding, more pressure on public services, turning London into a giant conurb from Brighton to Birmingham is not acceptable.

This is without even touching the even more sensitive issue of who come in. Here, it is clear that certain groups and cultures have beliefs and practices which are not compatible with modern day Britain. The role of women is a crunch point here, and I would argue that there should be no compromise with our hard fought for equality.

If you, or anyone else can explain to NS readers the benefits of bringing illiterate spouses from Pakistan to Bradford, or unemployable Somalis to parts of London, I would be interested to hear them. I think the pro immigrationists need to start providing some answers, because screaming "racist" will no longer work.

Mr. Divine's picture

Stuart, haven't you heard, me and ET are one and the same according to Luddite. I love to go to ETs but with all those millions those people in his living room drinking tea I don't think I'll be able to fit.

Its still perfect weather here. I lit a fire in the back field and burnt some thorny weeds. The high is about 24 C and the smoke goes straight up into a clear blue sky. It's still the best weather in the world.

SR819's picture

He will say that real communities are bound by "common experiences, forged by friendship and conversation, knitted together by all the rituals of the neighbourhood, from the school-run to the chat down the pub".

How is this statement any different from the comments made by Jon Cruddas, Glasman, Goodhart etc? And yet the NS seem to give a lot of room for these Labour affiliated thinkers to make their views. Yet when Cameron makes the exact same points, he's pandering to racists?

There have been several studies that show that the more homogenous a society is, the more secure people feel, the greater the sense of solidarity and community, the stronger the bonds that hold people together etc. Just read the works by Sociologist Robert Putnam, or the book "Happiness" by the economist Richard Layard.

Bengali Visa Scam 2009's picture

The fear of the right-wingers over people from other countries and culture is just unbelievable, especially when they spent all day yesterday gorging themselves over the spectacle of a mass family riddled with 'foreign blood' have a humongous wedding ceremony paid for at tax-payer expense!

jie4v7i14's picture

Loads of room in Wales too, for say, twenty mill?

Bring them in, I'll put the kettle on.

Andrea Osbourne's picture

Just read your comment in Saturday's Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/16/david-cameron-immigr...

Hear, hear! When will people stop blathering on about the downside of immigration and look at the positives? Yes, there are problems in lots of areas outside of London (Bradford, Burnley to name a few), but these are not caused by immigration, but by the demise of traditional industries and lack of investments in these areas. London is a case apart and always will be, but I for one would not like to live in a country or city that hadn't experienced the benefits of immigration, both culturally and financially.

Yes, let's talk about immigration. It's marvellous!

CB's picture

It's not like the NS to trot out a good conspiracy theory! So, Mehdi claims that people aren't trying to shut-down discussion on immigration policy, but in the same article claims that it's only the Tory right and BNP voters who have concerns about forced marriages and immigrants not being able to speak English. Yeah, tell people that if they have concerns about immigration then they're either a Tory right-winger or a BNP voter - way to make people forthcoming Mehdi!

Raheel's picture

@ SR819

I am of Pakistani descent. My father came as an immgrant in the 1960s worked non stop until his retirement. I have 2 sister in laws not in work but are being supported by their husbands (my brothers). Both worked before for long periods but now care for children. Economically inactive but not living off tax payers.

I can't see how you can stop Asian Britons from bringing in wives from the subcontinent if they wish to do so. Though I agree of course they must learn English and try to be economically active.

jie4v7i14's picture

Mr. Divine - bring their own!?! That is not done in polite society, my dear man. Well, not down my way it isn't.

Shed loads of cakes will be there too, and tons of polite gormless talk, no doubt. Bronte sisters plus, it'll be.

But bring a chair, that might help things. Plastic garden chairs are quite expensive on ebay.

This thread is right ludicrous now.

Sciamachy's picture

Rob - TBH I don't mind immigration as long as it's as easy for people to come & go as it is for their jobs to. It's only fair that if the economy is run by multinationals & they'll move our jobs elsewhere that we can go & find jobs worldwide too. European immigration is less contentious because of this reciprocal right to emigrate.

Perambulator's picture

"But, after all, IT IS THE LEADERS of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is TELL THEM THEY ARE BEING ATTACKED, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. IT WORKS THE SAME IN ANY COUNTRY."

Attributed to Hermann Goering. Used by David Cameron. Nuff said.

Mr. Divine's picture

Will they all fit in your front room?

Mr. Divine's picture

And do you have enough cups?

Extranea's picture

Pathetic article with little of interest. The idea that any politician would not try to gain political advantage from their policies 3 weeks before an election is ridiculous http://bit.ly/eE13rY

Stuart Eels's picture

The NS must thought so as well Mr Divine they've deleted my comment!

Steven's picture

Considering 73% of people in Spain do not speak English, should British people who move to Spain also be made to learn Spanish?

Julia Harris's picture

Cameron is correct, you cant speak to truth for fear of being misinterpreted by the likes of Medhi. If the immigrants where white Americans that noone would give a damn and Medhi would be on the other side. Because they are of other ethnic backgrounds the left cranks into gear. Lets face it, most of us will never speak to a women in a Burkha, never be able to share anything with her as she probably never decides to learn the language and probably holds all of us in contempt for being infidels. We dont need people like this living here, scrounging and causing divisions.

jie4v7i14's picture

Stuart Eels, coalmines are a bit thin on the ground down my way these days, but there is always the Big Pit museum experience the other side of Wales. Don't forget, bring your own shovel.

And Mr. Divine, after a review, I can happily announce that Wales can in fact easily accept 25 mill - I forget that the more hills there are, the more acreage there is. And my order for 25 million teacups has just been put on ebay, plus a load of cheap chinese kettles. And I'll get some marquees in, but my kichen isn't that small though.

This thread is getting very Spike Milligan/monty python...

la potenza della speranza's picture

@Julia Harris

2 Lets face it, most of us will never speak to a women in a Burkha, never be able to share anything with her as she probably never decides to learn the language and probably holds all of us in contempt for being infidels. We dont need people like this living here, scrounging and causing divisions"

Been reading the sun again?

Fraziel's picture

One of the few times i have ever agreed with cameron although i think what he said does not go far enough. There is absolutely no benefit whatsoever to this country from mass immigration and everything possible should be done to reduce/curb/stop it.

Its all very well for middle class liberals and lefties to say we need it and welcome it but they do not have to like in the shitty areas where huge numbers of these people end up, unable to speak english, unwilling to integrate and hoovering up , in many cases i have seen personally, 30, 40, 40k a year in benefits per family.Not to mention making it harder for people to get jobs in an already difficult market and driving down wages.

We cant afford it and it causes huge distress in the areas where large numbers of immigrants move to.Just ask the people of govanhill in glasgow.

Can anyone also tell me why so many people from Africa come here anyway rather than go to other African countries that are much closer? one reason and one reason only, benefits.

The governments plan to limit the maximum you can claim in any one year to average salary of 25k is a brilliant one. It will also encourage personal responsibility.he should have gone further as the average salary is 25k before tax.

I would really love someone to tell me, specifically, how 200000 immigrants to the uk a year is good for us.And no, I am not voting BNP but i have seen areas in Glasgow blighted by immigration and i have seen through my work the enormous sums of money paid out to immigrant families. It has to stop and the sooner the better, even if it means leaving the EU.

Mrs Nobody's picture

The 'immigration debate' is divide and rule politics. The ruling elite have used this ploy to good effect for centuries.

The truth is the masses are being dumped on from a great height regardless of their colour. Fight for the rights of the many and the problems of housing and jobs will be addressed.

hugh markey's picture

Look, Britain can't be such a bad place. Millions of the world citizens are willing to make quite hazardous journeys to reach its shores.
Non-doms find it the perfect habitation for their families, servants, and wealth.
Shortly, a human tide of newly liberated North Africans will be heading this way. Thanks Twitter|! Thanks Facebook! Thanks iPhone and clones! By the way, who taught these people how to do the 'V' sign? The wrong-way round and it's very rude.
Welcome Mat

hindle-a's picture

The governments plan to limit the maximum you can claim in any one year to average salary of 25k is a brilliant one-including receivers of industrial injuries payments and receivers of Carers Allowance-the most personally responsible group imaginable without which the alternative financial cost would be far more to Society-it is totally ideological and financially counterproductive and demonising benefit receivers all at one stroke and sums up the Tory nastiness well.

Des Demona's picture

It's political spin because grants have just been cut to the IAS. An easy target but one that has to be pre-empted spin wise before it goes down.
Cameron's political dogmatism disguised as 'we're all in this together' makes me want to vomit.

Sam's picture

Why didn't Mehdi Hasan wait untill after the speech to critisize it?

It turned out to be a very middle of the road speech with no outlandish rhetoric.

I agree with most of what he said, but if he does believe that immigrants shouldn't be blamed for taking most of the jobs created in the last 10 years then immigration is not the problem, but a consequence of a problem. We've needed most of the immigration of the last decade because we have millions of people who aren't even adequately skilled for low-skilled work. If we didn't have such a large underclass who don't provide value to jobs, then there would have been less immigration simply because there would have been fewer jobs which would have would have lead to fewer people from abroad looking for work here.

Whilst welfare may have played a role in encouraging some people not work or get trained in a skill to better their chances of finding a job, it is our education system that has done the real damage.

There is a real prejuidice against people from poor backgrounds in the education system. Rather than holding aspirations for them, most teachers let these kids drop out of school at 13-14 or take easier subjects over subjects that they desperately need to learn if they are to have a chance in life such as maths or science.

Almost from the first day they start school these kids from poor backgrounds are expected to grow up to be failures, and little is done to provide them with the education to stop this self-fulfilling phrophecy.

Immigration is in the end little more than a scapegoat for problems that are caused by primarily because society as a whole has neglected the poorest among us.

SR819's picture

What I find most galling is the way the metropolitan liberal elite are trying to carry out cultural genocide against the English, acting as if "English people" don't exist, and that the only identity white people are allowed to hold is that of "British national". And yet successive governments have bent over backwards to accommodate ethnic minorities and recognise their rights, a lot of time elevating their rights over the indigenous population.
In response to the earlier post, you are a British national and are allowed to live in this country, however, you are not "English" in the sense that you are not of anglo-saxon stock, and it is not racist to say so. You of course have every right to be in this country, but to say you are English would be to say that a white Englishman born in China would be called a Chinaman, which is obviously not the case.

In any case, the main issue is not so much immigration from Europe, or immigration from the USA, Canada, New Zealand etc, because we share similar values, cultural reference points and beliefs, making it much easier for them to become assimilated into British culture. However, immigrants from the Indian Sub-Continent and Africa do not share our values, and are likely to segregate and keep themselves to themselves when they migrate to this country.

This is why most of the tensions when it comes to immigration have been caused by immigrants from these parts of the worlds, because there is too great a difference between their belief sets and our belief sets for them to fit into our society. I know the metropolitan, liberal elite will find it hard to swallow this fact, but it is the truth.

In fact, it seems the metropolitan liberals are actually waking up and smelling the coffee. Majority of the comments I read on the Guardian are strongly anti-immigration, and many of the liberal journalists are making similar points.

Hopefully we have more politicians like Jon Cruddas, who actually recognise that Englishness exists, and is something to be proud of, and is willing to speak up against mass immigration especially when it's used as a 21st century incomes policy (his words, not mine)

C Baker's picture

Now the Murdoch press (Express and Mail) have got on the muslim immigrant bandwagon all weekend, looking for ways to focus on immigration and muslim extremism and the royal wedding. Three for the price of one! Focussing all the issues on Dani Choudray, his Best Training solutions businesses, best computer training etc. His new master-printing.co.uk business and the fact that he used an ex convict Shah Hussain to build him a website.
http://www.pixelsdesign.co.uk/design-portfolio.html

pixelsdesign is registered on the whois database to....Shah Hussain
Why shouldn't dani help out an ex con? Sussex Pathways used Shah Hussain as they help prisoners to rehabilitate and are lottery funded.

Now Shah Hussain's muslims against crusades website (same house style as Dani choudrays master-printing.co.uk)is all over the news.

What makes it worse is that the press have put this all at Vince Cable's doorstep as apparently, the government are funding Shah Hussain's prolific web design skills.

I seriously hope dani isn't working for the murdoch empire.

he may be getting as rich though. As a web designer myself, i've never come across a person with more domain names registered than me. He must have loads of businesses funded by the uk government.

Good lad is what i say. Why not? I know that Shah Hussain has taken his home page down- but he forgot to clear his server! All the evidence of dani choudray, uk business funding and Shah Hussain are there for all to see.http://www.pixelsdesign.co.uk/design-portfolio.html

I just love technology. Enjoy your weekend vince!

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