Migrant workers: Ed Miliband’s dangerous rhetoric
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He seeks cover from the left by claiming immigration should be seen as a class issue. He claims the slogan “British jobs for British workers” is wrong – not because it is divisive and poses the problem as one between nationalities, but because “We cannot tell people things we cannot deliver”.
The only conclusion to be drawn is that “Red Ed” would like to deliver this, but is barred by anti-discrimination laws.
This slogan gained prominence not when Gordon Brown first ill-advisedly spouted it, but when it became the rallying call and slogan of the construction workers around the Lindsey Oil Refinery strike of winter 2009.