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January 11, 2009

On your bike

Communities Secretary Hazel Blears - who is quite clearly a Slitheen - is alarmed by white working class voters turning away from Labour and toward the British National Party, saying they should be allowed to voice their worries "without fear of being branded racist". She might usefully have added, "and without fear of being subject to criminal charges".

In the furore that followed, Frank Field, Labour MP for Liverpool's Birkenhead and joint chairman of the Cross-Party Group on Balanced Migration, agreed that the Government was riding roughshod over the working class at its peril. He predicted that Labour policies on housing would turn local people to Far Right parties in the next general election, echoing a dire warning he gave last year.

'Slowly, but determinedly, the white English working class - and I guess, some black Britons, too - are voting against unlimited immigration by embracing the BNP,' he said back then.

Note to Labour: This is not just about housing, it is about a multi-generational sense of entitlement; the idea the white "working" class can lay about with no education, no qualifications and - one hesitates to suggest otherwise - no job and be handed a home at the expense of everyone else. That said, the white "working" class has a point, the fact one in twelve council houses are occupied by "migrants" - whoever they might be - while 1.7 million fester on waiting lists is an abomination. End the occupation, by all means.

The shame of this is not that the white working class are turning to the BNP; give the BNP a few seats and they will be at the trough with any other political party no matter their current line or their Brown Shirt history. The shame is that the white working class is outraged at the perceived loss of their space on deck, not that the ship is sinking. They are outraged to have to wait for housing to be given to them, rather than getting a job, putting money aside and getting a home for themselves. People worry they will be called racist for pointing a finger at the gentleman named Mohammad cutting the queue. They should try suggesting everyone in the queue fend for themselves and see what happens. Our culture is so enervated by cultural Marxism that actual Marxism no longer has a look in with England's proletariat; someone might expect them to, you know, sell their labour.

Or perhaps I am a fool for thinking this way and a dupe of an out-dated conservative ideology (for example, Marxism). I could put my own name on the list, piss about in Thailand for a few years then move into my new flat in glamorous Salford in no time. Throw in a few wives and blood-curdling threats against Christians, Hindus and Jews, and I can expect a free people-mover; never mind the bike.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at January 11, 2009 06:57 AM