TORY SOCIALISM

Below is an extract of an article in The Observer in which David Cameron plays up his ‘progressive’ credentials regarding immigration:

‘His tone on immigration, however, best demonstrates Cameron's courtship of liberal opinion. Praising the cultural and economic benefits of immigration, he added: 'We will have a big amount of emigration and immigration, but will also recognise that a responsible government needs to look at the level of net migration in terms of also providing good public services and having good community relations.'

Defending the language on immigration in the last manifesto - which he wrote - Cameron admitted there was a 'very deep perception problem' over Tory handling of the issue, but said the politician who got immigration most 'spectacularly wrong' was the former Home Secretary, David Blunkett.

'He was the person who talked about us being swamped: he used irresponsible language at the same time as having a chaotic immigration policy.

'I want the Conservative party to do the opposite: use moderate, reasonable, sensible language, and to have a policy that actually delivers.'

Asked if he would ditch the quota policy, widely criticised for rejecting people who have suffered genuine persecution, he said it would be included in the policy rethink that he recently launched. 'I want these policy reviews not to think "we're committed to this": I want them to think "this is the big challenge facing the country - what are the right ways of meeting [it]"?'.

Cameron said he was committed not just to giving genuine refugees asylum 'but also to taking them to our hearts, and feeding and clothing and schooling them'.’

‘Liberal opinion’ is another term for the politically correct.

Mr Cameron is quite open in that he wants ‘a big amount’ of immigration. He is committed to the continuation of mass immigration.

Net migration is not the issue. One can reduce net migration by increasing the emigration of the indigenous British. That is hardly a proper solution to the immigration problem. What is needed is an end to mass immigration.

Mr Cameron speaks of a ‘very deep perception problem’ regarding the Tory immigration policy. But whose perception is he referring to? One doubts it is the perception of those who recognised that the Tory immigration policy would not work. Those he has in mind are the politically correct.

This is confirmed with his criticism of David Blunkett as using ‘irresponsible language’. This trick is a favourite of the pro-mass immigration mulitculturalists. They quibble the terminology of the case against mass immigration rather than the logic of it.

It is all very well Mr Cameron grandstanding regarding so-called asylum seekers and how he we should be ‘taking them to our hearts’ etc, but he does not make out the case that the best way to help genuine refugees is to pay organised crime rackets to smuggle so-called asylum seekers into this country and then further pay lawyers and so-called human rights activists to try and keep them here regardless of the merits of their claim.

The best and most effective way to help refugees is to help them in their own or neighbouring countries.

All Mr Cameron is doing is grandstanding.