A post today on the Ethnic Politics website (the on-line Centre for Ethnicity in Politics) tells us that "all ethnic minority groups show more interest in politics than those from white backgrounds" (excepting Pakistani and Bangladeshi heritage people who have presumably become disillusioned by the Iraq war).
http://www.ethnicpolitics.org/2013/02/18/ethnic-minority-interest-in-politics-a-data-roundup/
This is a statement of the bleeding obvious.
In a Newsnight discussion last year one of the participants (from the West Indies) said: "The first thing we were told when we arrived was vote Labour".
The organisation of immigrant communities into bloc votes for the Labour Party has been an extremely successful technique, and one that has undoubtedly delivered marginal seats (both wards and constituencies) into the hands of Labour candidates.
Evidence from the last American presidential election indicates that this strategy can bring about a permanent left-wing majority in any democracy where migration is unrestricted and uncontrolled.
The organisation of immigrant communities into Labour-voting blocs is not without drawbacks, including psychological implications for the immigrant communities themselves (psychologically eternally under siege, displaying a paranoid resentment of perceived ubiquitous "racism", reminded constantly through the implications of equalities legislation that they are "other" - indeed their "otherness" becomes their principle identity that they are unable to break free from).
The effects of the migrant bloc votes on the functioning of democracy is of course so obvious that it hardly needs pointing out.
To paraphrase Dr Johnson: the effects of immigration are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
http://www.ethnicpolitics.org/2013/02/18/ethnic-minority-interest-in-politics-a-data-roundup/
This is a statement of the bleeding obvious.
In a Newsnight discussion last year one of the participants (from the West Indies) said: "The first thing we were told when we arrived was vote Labour".
The organisation of immigrant communities into bloc votes for the Labour Party has been an extremely successful technique, and one that has undoubtedly delivered marginal seats (both wards and constituencies) into the hands of Labour candidates.
Evidence from the last American presidential election indicates that this strategy can bring about a permanent left-wing majority in any democracy where migration is unrestricted and uncontrolled.
The organisation of immigrant communities into Labour-voting blocs is not without drawbacks, including psychological implications for the immigrant communities themselves (psychologically eternally under siege, displaying a paranoid resentment of perceived ubiquitous "racism", reminded constantly through the implications of equalities legislation that they are "other" - indeed their "otherness" becomes their principle identity that they are unable to break free from).
The effects of the migrant bloc votes on the functioning of democracy is of course so obvious that it hardly needs pointing out.
To paraphrase Dr Johnson: the effects of immigration are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
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