The parts they’ve quoted seem pretty much right on the money to me. You often see anti-immigrant types spouting bollocks like “immigration might be all well and good for you well-off Guardian-reading liberals, but what about how it affects the ordinary working class people who actually have to live with it?”

But then why aren’t those who live with it actually complaining for themselves? Are we supposed to think the working class are too stupid to express their own opinions? That they need newspaper columnists and rich arseholes like Sir Andrew Green (quoted in that Telegraph article implying that Labour being explicitly pro-immigration would cost them working class support) to do it for them?

I’m from Manchester, and I know several white working-class people (including my dad) who live in areas of the city with a large immigrant population. And none of them have a problem with it. In fact, the last time I talked to someone who *did* have a problem with it, it was a taxi driver from Stockport. Which is just about the whitest place I’ve ever been. But I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt here – maybe he isn’t actually racist, maybe he was just speaking out of a misguided concern for his fellow man. After all, there was a copy of the Express in his cab. If that shite serves as his main source of news, I wouldn’t blame him for having a skewed view of the subject.

Maybe, just maybe, this is because the ‘story’ is a pile of shite. When only Migrationwatch, the Mail and Express have it and no-one else touches it with a bargepole*, it probably means someone is making 2+2=67

*Apart from the BNP of course.

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