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Two Minute Hate: Criminals and Immigrants
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No responsible politician or political party would have a section of their manifesto for the coming election entitled ‘Crime and Immigration’, thereby lumping the two issues (and sets of people) together in an unholy juxtapositioning that plays right into the hands of the BNP, Migration Watch and their kind.
But that is exactly what Labour have done. They may as well have called it ‘Criminals and Immigrants’. All part of the Two Minute Hate.
On a slightly happier subject, there was an excellent article by Phillip Legrain on Saturday entitled Foreigners have not ‘taken’ new jobs, a response to Daily Mail claims in which he explains (again) that the idea there is a finite number of jobs in the economy is economic nonsense. There was also a good analysis piece by Jamie Doward in The Guardian on the misuse of statistics employed to justify such headlines.
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Is it possible to get rage fatigue from the political positions taken by the respective main parties on the issues surrounding immigration?
Undoubtedly. But “crime and immigation” is a winner in the rage stakes, for my money.
I thought I’d ask my local Labour candidate by email. I’m told that, and I quote: “both are dealt with by the Home Office and Ministry of Justice together and it has been common practice over the years that these two subjects are discussed together at Policy Forums. There is nothing to suggest that the two are linked or that one causes the other.”
Nothing to suggest that they are linked. But they are discussed in tandem!
I’m currently enjoying the IPL 20 20 on ITV4.
Its apparantly not the only place where SPIN is perceived to be effective.