Same old Tories

A Conservative parliamentary candidate recently campaigned for an asylum seeker and his family against a Home Office decision to deport them. He was pictured next to the asylum seeker holding a banner saying "LET THEM STAY".

But then an election was called. While not being overtly racist, the Tory party needs to subliminally remind it's core supporters that - wink, wink - they needn't worry about too many Johnny Foreigners coming over here and taking all our jobs and houses.

So when the picture is reprinted in a campaign leaflet the banner no longer reads Let them Stay but CONTROLLED IMMIGRATION.

It's sickening. People only fear immigration because the tabloid media, most noticeably The Daily Mail and The Express, and the Conservative Party tell them that we are being flooded and they are all dishonest, lazy spongers. The truth is that immigration is falling. Unemployment has fallen, the numbers of homeless has fallen. The number of racist attacks is going up though. Ignorance and bigotry are on the rise. And the blame must be laid at the door, to a greater or lesser extent, of the Conservative Party. They disgust me.