Remember this from 2009: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/dont-listen-to-the-whingers-london-needs-immigrants-6786170.html http://www.standard.co.uk/news/dont-lis

Remember this from 2009: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/dont-listen-to-the-whingers-london-needs-immigrants-6786170.html http://www.standard.co.uk/news/dont-listen-to-the-whingers-l... > I remember coming away from some discussions with the clear sense that the policy was intended - even if this wasn't its main purpose - to rub the Right's nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date. That seemed to me to be a manoeuvre too far. > Ministers were very nervous about the whole thing. For despite Roche's keenness to make her big speech and to be upfront, there was a reluctance elsewhere in government to discuss what increased immigration would mean, above all for Labour's core white working-class vote. > This shone through even in the published report: the "social outcomes" it talks about are solely those for immigrants. The politicians knew what easing immigration restrictions would be unpopular, but they did it anyway.