Don't get fooled again

I see that my friend the Green Arrow has already commented on Home Secretary Alan Johnson's speech at the Royal Society, in which he appeared acknowledged that the Labour government, together with successive previous governments have handled the issue of immigration badly. The Green Arrow is of course quite correct to be sceptical of ex-trade union leader Johnson's apparent Damascene conversion, this is after all the man who, as the Green Arrow points out, said only four months ago that he was more than happy living in a multicultural society, and, famously that he did “not lie awake at night worrying about a population of 70million”.

We would, of course, be mad to believe that Johnson is doing anything other than seeking to deceive the public in the hope of reducing the potential vote for the BNP. For a senior member of the current government to claim that they are no longer in favour of mass immigration is as credible as serial rapist declaring that he has gone gay, their past record exposes their lie.

We will hear more of this, more leading members of the government will start expressing doubts over past immigration policy and be in no doubt, the Conservatives will follow suit, in fact we might even here similar rumblings from the Lib Dems if they get desperate enough, However, that is all it is, desperation. They do not mean it, it is a lie which they have absolutely no intention of carrying forward. Their sole purpose is to deceive the public.

Of course, we have been here before, the last time that our politicians were forced to address the subject of immigration during the months leading up to an election, thirty years ago, in 1979.

Usually, all political parties comply with a secret pact whereby none of them mention the subject of immigration before an election, because they all have the same failed policy, and they do not want it discussed. However, this time, the growing popularity of the BNP, means that they have no option other than to address the subject and start lying through their expensively capped, tax payer funded teeth.

Voters over 50 will have seen this before, in the lead up to the 1979 election, the then opposition leader Margaret Thatcher gave a famous TV interview to the “World in Action” program during which he alluded to the fears in many communities that they could become "rather swamped by people of a different culture".

Thatcher was widely condemned by the, even then controlled media, for using the word “swamped” but she used it deliberately, and as cynically as Johnson used his words at the Royal Society.

Like Johnson, Thatcher had no intention of changing immigration policy, but she fooled enough people into into believing she would, that they voted for her, rather than the National Front and she won with a majority of 43 and the rest is history.

The BNP is not the National Front, but the issues and the Lib/Lab/Con troika are the same. as they were in 1979, just much worse. Do not let history repeat itself, do not be fooled again.