Immigrants? We Sent Out Search Parties to Get Them to Come... and Made It Hard for Britons to Get Work, Says Mandelson

MAIL ONLINE: Former minister admits Labour deliberately engineered mass immigration / Between 1997 and 2010 net migration to Britain totalled 2.2million

Labour sent out ‘search parties’ for immigrants to get them to come to the UK, Lord Mandelson has admitted.

In a stunning confirmation that the Blair and Brown governments deliberately engineered mass immigration, the former Cabinet Minister and spin doctor said New Labour sought out foreign workers.

He also conceded that the influx of arrivals meant the party’s traditional supporters are now unable to find work.

By contrast, Labour leader Ed Miliband has said his party got it wrong on immigration but has refused to admit it was too high under Labour.

Between 1997 and 2010, net migration to Britain totalled more than 2.2million, more than twice the population of Birmingham.

The annual net figure quadrupled under Labour from 48,000 people in 1997 to 198,000 by 2009.

Lord Mandelson’s remarks come three years after Labour officials denied claims by former adviser Andrew Neather that they deliberately encouraged immigration in order to change the make-up of Britain.

Mr Neather said the policy was designed to ‘rub the Right’s nose in diversity’.

He said there was ‘a driving political purpose: that mass immigration was the way that the Government was going to make the UK truly multicultural’. Read on and comment » | Tim Shipman | Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Jackboot Jacqui’s a Nazi Piece of Work
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MAIL Online: George Orwell's 1984 was supposed to be a warning about the dangers of totalitarianism, not a blueprint for government.

No one seems to have told New Labour. Barely a day goes by without another assault on our civil liberties, another extension of state snooping, another exciting ruse for meting out punishment for the most trivial offence.

This week’s outrage is the news that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is creating a whole new vigilante class of quasi-policemen, drawn from the ranks of Town Hall jobsworths, security guards and car park attendants.

They’ll be allowed to wear uniforms, patrol the streets with dogs, confiscate property and hand out fixed-penalty notices for everything from littering to under-age drinking.

It’s emerged that there are 1,400 of these Accredited Persons out there already, and their numbers will soon swell into the thousands.

They have the power to stop cars, take photos of people, demand names and addresses and issue fines.
For now, they wear badges sewn onto their tunics by their employers.

But the Home Office wants to see a uniform standardised across the country. How about peaked caps, jodhpurs, jackboots and black shirts with swastikas on the sleeves? Jackboot Jacqui’s a Nazi Piece of Work >>> By Richard Littlejohn | August 29, 2008

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Queen Said to Be Left “Exasperated and Frustrated” and “Deeply Concerned” Over 'Meddling' Tony Blair
THE SCOTSMAN: THE Queen has been left "exasperated and frustrated" by Tony Blair's legacy after a decade in office, friends have reportedly told a newspaper.

The Prime Minister's perceived lack of understanding of countryside issues has been a particular grievance, close confidantes disclosed, while many New Labour policies left her "deeply concerned".

Royal sources said that the Queen also believes privately that Blair and his government have meddled unnecessarily in Britain's heritage, including the reform of the House of Lords.

Concerns from military leaders that the armed forces have become "overstretched" by foreign commitments have also said to have worried her.

She suspects that Blair has spent too much time courting the favour of the United States at the expense of her beloved Commonwealth. Queen reveals’ exasperation’ over ‘meddling’ Tony Blair (more) By Nicholas Christian

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Londra, la regina "delusa e irritata"
per il bilancio dei dieci anni di Blair

Mark Alexander

Taking the 'New' Out of 'New Labour' - unceremoniously

Photo of Blair ‘the Showman’ courtesy of Google Images

THE TELEGRAPH: Labour set the stage for a new era under Gordon Brown yesterday by unceremoniously dumping Tony Blair's "New Labour" brand within minutes of the Prime Minister delivering an emotional and stage-managed resignation statement.

As Mr Blair admitted that he had not always lived up to the public's high expectations when he entered Downing Street a decade ago, the "New Labour, New Britain" logo - the defining symbol of his leadership - was removed from the party's website and replaced with plain "Labour" and the red rose symbol.

The move emphasised the determination of senior Labour figures to regain hundreds of thousands of traditional supporters who have come to associate New Labour with a betrayal of the party's values. Mr Blair launched the name at his first conference as leader in 1994 at the start of a relentless programme of modernisation. The end of New Labour (more) By George Jones and Toby Helm

Telegraph Leader: Tony Blair's exit was gracefully done, though the seven-week farewell tour that is to follow will surely test everyone's patience.

This peerless political showman delivered a speech that was perfectly pitched and refreshingly free of maudlin sentiment.
Yet what was most striking about the swansong was its defensiveness, underscored by his rather plaintive assertion that "hand on heart, I did what I thought was right" as he apologised for the times when he had "fallen short". It struck an elegiac note in counterpoint to his predictable roll-call of New Labour "successes". A great showman – but an average statesman (more)

Mark Alexander