Britain has a long tradition of economic migration. Over the past five hundred years England led the world in the colonial project by resettling people from the British Isles in far-flung parts of the world in the formation of the British Empire. In more recent times Britons have continued to migrate for economic and other reasons. For many of the same reasons people from the other countries migrate, and some of those come and settle in Britain. This is nothing new. French Huguenots, Eastern European Jews, people from Ireland, Italians and a whole host of others have come to live in Britain, and as a result have made Britain a richer, more diverse collection of nations. In the past twenty years, however, this time-honoured and routine process has been labelled ‘a problem’ by politicians and a media seeking to make political capital and create a smoke screen to cover other, more serious issues.
In the past twenty years, the same period in which public attitudes to migrants have taken a rapid shift to the far-right, the highest earners in Britain have more than doubled their income, while the wealth of the bottom ten percent has halved. This is never reported by the BBC, and yet they speak of migration in highly emotive terms with words like floodgates and crisis. There is no immigration crisis in Britain, and there never has been. What has changed in the last number of decades is the ethnic profile of those coming to Britain. In terms of pure statistics the evidence shows that the overwhelming majority of recent immigrants to Britain are in gainful employment and pay their taxes. It is simply absurd to blame an employment shortage or a housing crisis on these people. We all pay our taxes, and it is with this tax money that we all employ the government to create employment and build houses. Neither of which is being done. What is happening is that more and more of the wealth of the country is being gathered to the top, and the top is doing its best to give native Britons somewhere else to lay the blame.
Operation Ore was the largest single criminal investigation in the United Kingdom, and led to almost four thousand arrests across Britain in relations to online child pornography. Britain was brought into this international collaboration by law enforcement in the United States which later criticised its British counterparts for their serious mishandling of the investigation. The plot thickened with the investigation and subsequent conviction of Peter Righton on charges of child pornography. Tom Watson MP raised the question of missing police evidence of a high profile paedophile ring, including statements linking it to members of the government and Number Ten. Both Watson and former West Mercia detective Terry Shutt have claimed that this information in a dossier vanished in a cover-up during the Brown administration. A number of Labour MPs have come forward to verify the existence of this dossier, but have been prevented from speaking out by the Official Secrets Act. It must then be assumed that former Prime Minister Gordon Brown is aware of the contents of the dossier, but has kept his silence, and ensured the inaction of the law, to this day.
It is not so much the policies of an organisation or political party that give them away as a group of bigots, homophobes, sexists or racists. Organisations have time to edit what they put before the public. Only when we listen to the casual conversation of the movers and shakers within these organisations do we get a clear sense of who these people are, and what it is that they wish to achieve. The United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) has no shortage of loud-mouthed figures who are more than willing to spell out the true nature of Britain’s most successful far-right party. We have had the party whip, Stuart Agnew MEP, calling women “sluts,” Nigel Farage, party leader, claim that women are less-well-off because they choose to have children, and Godfrey Bloom MEP describe the whole of Africa as “Bongo-Bongo Land.” Not exactly the most enlightened group of politicians England has ever seen, but this is only the old guard. It is troubling to think that the more they are openly criticised for their twisted opinions the more they learn to hide them from public scrutiny. The result that we are beginning to see is a more publicly acceptable political party. What is more frightening is that the BBC and other British media outlets have been doing everything in their power to polish up the image of this new right-wing. Even when the mainstream parties were out to get UKIP the BBC was hard at work making them good. Now the mainstream of politics is sideling up to them looking for future parliamentary alliances.
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