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Anyone remember Gordon Brown's infamous 'British Jobs for British Workers' speech? Two years later the BNP had won two seats in the European elections and Labour came third behind UKIP.
Trying to appropriate the language of the racist parties to appear tough on immigration backfired last time and will again.
Prole.
Just going to re-post this for emphasis:
There are some signals from the Labour Right that yet another sop to anti-immigration politics is called for, but this hardly amounts to a coherent solution either for Labour's dilemmas, or for the coming economic and social crises. All it will do is cultivate ideological terrain for the far right, who will duly seize it when their time comes.