Posted: Jun 22, 2012 6:14 pm
I always meant to start this topic as a counterpart to the Coalition Watch thread, now in its 65th page of febrile angst and hyperbole. After all, there's so much more to say about the people who wrecked the country's economy than the people who have the Herculean task of fixing it. But here it is now, better late than never, as I'm sure you'll all agree 
First up: Labour is reverting to populist type and "getting tough" on immigration.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/co ... 73414.html
First up: Labour is reverting to populist type and "getting tough" on immigration.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/co ... 73414.html
This week, Labour is re-engaging with the immigration debate. So yesterday we saw the Shadow Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, apologising for her party's failure to introduce tougher controls on migrants while in office. We did not do enough to address people's concerns on the subject, she bleated, while inevitably attacking the Government and demanding tighter restrictions.
This is an important moment. Here is a party, remember, that had a Home Secretary who talked of Britain being "swamped" with migrants and a Prime Minister who borrowed the language of the British National Party. At the last election, it had the most hostile manifesto on the subject. Yet still it feels compelled to say it has been too weak.