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Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]
[quote=ZIMMY]Unlike lefties I don't believe that all cultures are equal in (their) values.
Do you support the free market?
Are Jeffrey Sachs and Milton Friedman lefties? Was the Shock therapy in Poland a plan of the left?
As for Blair's government allowing the new EU members in ,well!
Former Conservative Prime Minister Sir John Major today suggested that Labour leader Tony Blair was more right wing than him.
At the end of the Second World War there were work shortages in Europe and labour shortages in Britain. The government began looking for immigrants.
Legislation had allowed people from the Empire and Commonwealth unhindered rights to enter Britain because they carried a British passport.
Under political pressure, the government legislated three times in less than a decade to make immigration for non-white people harder and harder. By 1972, legislation meant that a British passport holder born overseas could only settle in Britain if they, firstly, had a work permit and, secondly, could prove that a parent or grandparent had been born in the UK. (Was this legalization introduced by the right?)
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/uk/2002/race/short_history_of_immigration.stm
Immigration policy seems to be driven by profit / the free-market and short-sightedness and the opportunistic ambitions of the power that be. The political parties swing to the left or right depending on what the spin-doctors prescribe for electoral victory. Whatever slogan works, remember Peter Griffiths.
