No Wonder Labour Is In Favour Of More Immigration?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/10721797/Tories-make-ethnic-minority-voters-feel-like-they-are-a-mistake-MP-says.html

Will this mean that the minority will soon be the voice of the majority?

/// Labour has cornered the votes of ethnic minority communities, according to the self-reported vote shares in the Ethnic Minority British Election Study. Some 31 per cent of white voters said they supported Gordon Brown at the 2010 election, against 61 per cent of people of Indian descent, 60 per cent of Pakistanis, 78 of people black Caribbean voters and 87 per cent of black African voters. ///

[LazyGun]

Where do you get the idea that Labour is "in favour of more immigration"? Have you read their policy statements on immigration recently?

And why does this article imply that the "minority" will be the voice of the majority? And how soon is soon?

The point of the article is that some within the tory ranks think that the rhetoric over immigrants and ethnics has gone too far and they risk alienating ( ooh pun there somewhere) a cohort of potential voters who may actually share some values in common with the tories.

Seems a perfectly sensible observation, and one that has been made before.

[youngmafbog]

I have always found it odd that so many Asian people vote labour.

I have met many in my travels and by far the majority make me look like a liberal with some that would make Atilla the hun look like a commie.

They believe in freedom to run a business, get on in life and have a good life, educating their kids (often privately) and many are borderline racists. Not quite the profile of your average labour voter.

Of course most of the ones I have met are from the upper echelons of society not the dregs so maybe have a different viewpoint.

[New Judge]

“…many are borderline racists”

Many are a bit more than borderline. A lot of those that I know are out and out racists having a rabid hatred of Africans and Afro-Caribbeans, and even some of thier fellow Asians (who happen to come from the wrong side of the Khyber Pass). A number that I know are none too fond of white people either. “Borderline” gives them far too much credit. Racism is by no means the exclusive preserve of white English people.

“Have you read their policy statements on immigration recently?”

Er…no. Much as I’d love to when you look at the Labour Party’s website (which is where I would expect such things to be made available) there are no statements on any policies whatsoever:

http://www2.labour.org.uk/home

Plenty of opportunities to join or donate. Lots of information about individual senior members. But policies came there none. Not as I can see, anyway.

[sp1814]

It is indeed odd that Asians vote for Labour, because those that I have met are far more likely to have what I consider to be traditional conservative values.

Perhaps this is the reason we only see a certain type of person on programmes such as Skint and Benefits Street?

Who knows?

[douglas9401]

The gulf between conservative and Conservative is ever widening.

[emmie]

i have found the same, whilst in work, and socially, that their core values as such are more conservative, and some were racist, against fellow Asians, fellow Africans, its not just a white thing, as some seem to suggest. I know Muslims who don't like Hindu's and vice versa. And i have to say that Black Afro Caribbean people who didn't care for others, who were darker skinned, heard this some years back, from a friend, i always wondered why.

[Svejk]

i think your op is wrong aog. labour have 're-branded' themselves as the 'tough on immigration party'. ;-) some of their adherents on here dont seem to have caught up with the new programme yet.

[emmie]

no one is tough on immigration, no one who counts that is.

[Old_Geezer]

It occurs to me that maybe many immigrants are not arriving 'well off', and most therefore experience not having a high income. And that those who feel disadvantaged in that way are more inclined to be community minded and want a more even distribution of the country's wealth to the lower paid; and consequently support the party most likely to move that way. Whist those able to 'rise' in the system and attract much wealth to themselves are more inclined to want a political system than tells folk they should fend for themselves.

If the above holds that would suggest a general trend for immigrants to naturally lean towards the left once here.