I'm a labour voter, but surely the anti Ukippers have to come with something other than "you're racist" slogan when I know for a fact that non whites vote for them.
And please a little less of the patronising tone in relation to non whites and immigrants, please (my family consists of that make up). We are people, not little exoticals who are there to make people feel better about their perceived "advantage" in life. We want to know how we are going to eat, if we can send our children to a school in our catchment area, too.
Thank God for multiculturalism, but from my view, aint nothing sexy about it if we all sit around (well the lower middle and working class, not to speak of the underclass), all different shades, singing Kum By Yah, whilst we are all broke as a joke.
To me, the "uncontrolled immigration" mob are as racist as the what they perceive Ukippers to be. How can it not be racist (and self hating) to love low skilled immigration so much to the point that it encourages employers to always have a back log of staff (zero hours flourished under Labour. I know this as an ex care worker) so as to discourage unionisation and promote the fake superiority complex of an immigrant by saying "the Brits are lazy", whilst these same immigrants are encouraged to slave away for doing damn near twice the work for minimum wage? That isn't an immigrant who is superior, that is an immigrant who has come here for economic reasons!
Immigration needs to talked about in bare faced economic, infrastructural terms. Take the emotion out of it. Most immigrants come here with "how am I going to live?" on their minds. So there is nothing wrong with working class people asking the same when they have seen their communities change drastically within a fifteen year time span. Having access to plantain and cassava is all well and good, but when you are fighting for access to services and see with your own eyes the quick turnover in transients in these "communities", the "racist!" rhetoric (funny how most non white immigrants live in working class areas) must jar.
Labour need to put some of those too learned, armchair warriors to the back of the furthest bench, apologise for inhibiting social mobility (which the Tories are now capitalising on), stop the politics of jealousy (whilst they are rolling in it), get rid of Ed Miliband, give Harriet Harman a golden handshake and a quango to run (too many people just don't like her. She's my local MP and she's shiny skinned and insincere, but talks "nice". Labour and too many of its supposed supporters need to stop with the "white working class are the great un learned, unwashed rhetoric" when opinions don't gel with theirs. Nobody else could get away with that line, but it must cut to the soul to hear it from people who support a party that was built off the working class, yet turned into Neo liberalism PLC. There are too many non white , "unlearned, unwashed", too. As one of them, I take exception to being seen as superior to the white ones, only because a self hater doesn't want to appear racist. I don't need that particular cuddle. Good thing my ancestors didn't need it, too. We'd still be in fucking slavery.
Labour need some grit and need to come out of their irony towers. it would not surprise me if they managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, such is their lack of passion (but one needs to be truthful or at least believe what is coming out of their cakeholes to be "passionate"). It all feels a bit Neil Kinnock/ Michael Foot, to me. UKIP is not Labour's problem (have they got any seats?). Labour is Labour's problem. And like a mother who can't countenance that her child is fucked up, I'll vote for the fuckers anyway. Maybe people like me ARE the fools.