Asinine article on immigration by Maya Goodfellow on LabourList: http://labourlist.org/2015/01/its-time-labour-challenged-the-toxicity-of-the-immigration-debate/
Immigration has profound social costs.
Studies (by for instance Harvard's Robert Putnam) have shown that immigration drastically reduces trust within society - both trust between indigenous and immigrant communities and trust within indigenous communities. Without trust the welfare state becomes much more difficult to sustain as the fortunate are less willing to subsidise the less fortunate. Therefore Labour's policies of redistribution have become impossible as a result of mass immigration.
Of course the Labour party does not understand this.
Which is why they cannot be trusted with immigration policy.
And by the way Ms Goodfellow the debate on immigration only became toxic because people like you screamed "racist" whenever anyone tried to discuss it.
Immigration has profound social costs.
Studies (by for instance Harvard's Robert Putnam) have shown that immigration drastically reduces trust within society - both trust between indigenous and immigrant communities and trust within indigenous communities. Without trust the welfare state becomes much more difficult to sustain as the fortunate are less willing to subsidise the less fortunate. Therefore Labour's policies of redistribution have become impossible as a result of mass immigration.
Of course the Labour party does not understand this.
Which is why they cannot be trusted with immigration policy.
And by the way Ms Goodfellow the debate on immigration only became toxic because people like you screamed "racist" whenever anyone tried to discuss it.
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