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“BLOODY immigrants eh? They don’t come over here when it would be politically advantageous and then they capsize and drown in their hundreds at the most awkward times, it’s just plain inconsiderate.”
That, reading between the lines, is pretty much the government’s exact response to the appalling and preventable tragedy in the Mediterranean which saw an estimated 800 men, women and children drown as a direct result of EU policy.
And it wasn’t just the Tories either. Both they and Labour attempted a difficult juggling act yesterday of appearing rabidly xenophobic, blatantly jingoistic and yet at the same time feigning compassion for the suffering of the less fortunate.
Millions of ordinary English people of all backgrounds consider the cross their own — abandoning it, and its left-wing history that includes the peasants’ revolt, concedes vital ground to the right, argues SIMON BRIGNELL
As global fascism grows, ROGER McKENZIE urges the left to reclaim May Day’s revolutionary roots — not as an act of nostalgia, but as fuel for building a ‘community of resistance’ against exploitation and the rise of fascism
