Monthly Archives: April 2010

A Talk About Immigration

April 29, 2010 – 6:33 pm

Tweet Yesterday I tried to point out that the whole notion that immigration was something that we were not as a society allowed to discuss was beyond ludicrious. I updated that post with today’s front page of the Daily Mail to demonstrate that the right-wing press are as keen as ever to portray immigration as [...]

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‘You Can’t Talk About Immigration’

April 28, 2010 – 6:37 pm

Tweet ‘You can’t talk about immigration’. I seem to be hearing this phrase all the damn time lately. Isn’t the world a strange place sometimes. I could have sworn that a huge amount of time this election has been spent talking about immigration. I was absolutely certain that both TV debates featured all three leaders [...]

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Your Local Candidates: who are they?

April 27, 2010 – 9:37 am

Tweet This election is supposed to be exciting because we have seen the leaders on TV having a carefully staged discussion. A discussion that allowed some pretty inane questions to be asked and answered without any further questioning from the person asking the question or others in the audience. It says a lot about the [...]

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Emma Moore, Conservative Candidate for Ogmore and her dishonest leaflets

April 25, 2010 – 9:40 am

Tweet On Saturday morning I received a personal message (addressed ‘Dear Resident’) from Emma Moore, my local Conservative candidate for Ogmore. In this personal message she outlines ‘why we need change in Britain today’, and I was immediately struck by a a series of tabloid lies being wheeled out by Emma in an attempt to [...]

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Ignoring the evidence on immigration, part 2

April 24, 2010 – 9:45 am

Tweet A while back I wrote about the destitute Gurkhas who moved to the UK expecting help and support but actually found out that they were not entitled to benefits, housing and so forth. I argued that as the story was in the Daily Mail it should demonstrate to Mail readers that the idea that [...]

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