NLV - I have to interject and say that Labour's immigration policies weren't entirely the culture-destroying mistake that they're being presented as today.
Immigration boosts the service sector, ups the demand for goods, and provides so much of the skilled workers we rely upon. A few years ago, for example, I remember reading that over 15,000 foreign nurses came to work in the UK, half of them from the Phillipines.
Between 1997 and 2007, the UK's GDP growth rate eclipsed other G7 nations; much of this was facilitated by the patching up of labour shortages - a fix made possible by incoming foreign workers.
Then there were the increased tax revenues. Immigrants are a small burden on state infrastructure, as, on average, they are able-bodied and young -- and most return to their own countries in a matter of few years.
If anything, Labour's mistake was to heed the often racially motivated calls to limit the "influx", which led to contradictory or plainly harmful policies (making free English tuition harder to access, say, while joining in the populist ranting against foreigners' refusal to assimilate).
So there'll be a cap on non-EU workers now that Con-Dem-nation has taken No 10. Will this help? I doubt it. Even "that woman" Gillian Duffy's main beef was with eastern Europeans (who, as I say above, were a positive force).
To get back to topic, I think the rampant Islamophobia in the mainstream press is absurd and insulting, not just to Muslims but all who believe in fairness. My point in this blog was to shine a light on McDonagh's outrageousness - which most of you picked up on (I thought it was obvious . . .). Anyway, have a good day.

No, not blind. Just like all our other politicians, they don't have to live in a immigrant infested sink hole estate!

What a joke of an article, are you a pro Zionist by any chance? Has is not occurred to you that most of the demonstraters are British born and many are not Muslim. Your just another Muslim hater trying to create a climate of hate and fear.

... Is on us. Being concerned about mass immigration doesn't make one a 'Pro-Zionist'. Except perhaps on the comment boards of the New Statesman where issues get conflated in such a facile and ridiculous manner.

The next time I try to write something funny, I'll signal the joke with this: "[!!!!!!!!!!!!]"

It's the first time I've been called a "pro-Zionist . . . Muslim hater"!

" Ha ha. Blind people are funny because they can't see. Another gem from the Telegraph."

And I thought its only the right-wing that makes generalizations.

The Telegraph must be trying to expand into the Daily Mail`s reader base again!!!

Time for guide dogs to be trained differently - one woof for white and two woofs for the rest!

Anyone for 'blind mans buff' ? !