And as Barbara Castle, that great Labour campaigner of yesteryear once argued, outside the EU we will no longer be discriminating in favour of Germans, Spaniards or Belgians and against Indians, Australians and Canadians as is required by our membership of the EU. Britain can become a proper citizen of the whole world again through a colour-blind immigration policy, and not one that serves a “little Europe” and only our closest geographical neighbours
I also wish my Labour colleagues would have more pride in our party’s reforming history and the good sense of the British people. It was Labour governments that introduced the vast majority of the rights that workers enjoy.
From holiday pay to the minimum wage, Clement Attlee, Harold Wilson and Tony Blair didn’t need European bureaucrats to impose them on us. Again and again, Britain’s social rights have been world-beating. I’m absolutely confident that if any Tory government was foolish to attack our fundamental rights they would fail in their ambitions to gain support in the north of England and in the cities
howabout I am a HUGE Fan of Frank Field, he speaks so much sense to me, and has always struck me as a human, kind, sensible, listening MP. It saddened me when he was called Racist on one of these threads
and he was called a liar as his ward doesn't have any immigration according to the stats. Interesting article Thanks How.