Today could not go unmarked following the speculation, hype, scaremongering and bitter argument in the run up to the entitlement of Bulgarians and Romanians to live and work without restriction as ‘EU citizens’ in the UK.
The Guardian, as always, chooses to report on Labour’s words of condemnation – that the government has failed to introduce measures to protect the rights of low-skilled British workers whose jobs may be threatened by the new migrants.
The Daily Mail, however, focuses on Labour actions – as their Chairman of the Home Affairs select committee, Keith Vaz, waited at Luton airport to welcome migrants landing on the first flight of the morning from Romania, even buying some a coffee and having a chat to ask why they had come… as if that wasn’t patently obvious.
This is Labour at its hypocritical worst. In one breath extolling the virtues and necessities of EU membership and deeper integration, in the next complaining that British workers are being disadvantaged by cheaper foreign labour afforded the right to come here under EU law.
Similarly, while they want to be seen as standing by the working class they serve so poorly and railing against migration Labour has actively encouraged, they also cynically work to position themselves as the friend of the migrants in the hope of electoral reward in the future.
As always, we should judge these political pygmies not by their words, but by their deeds. They speak louder than words ever can.
Autonomous Mind 
I wanted to leave a comment on the Guardian page about Labour’s hypocrisy, but I could not. I wounder why ?
I didn’t think it were possible to plumb new stygian depths post Bliar and Brown’s Zanulabour party. However, son of a communist dissembler, albeit a passive but mischievous agitator, Miliband Jnr. excels as all the far left do; in double speak, heaping lie upon lie and playing the innocent and hard done by cloth capped working class stalwart – and dash it all – from millionaires row, doncha know.
In my vocabulary – I don’t have the adjectives to describe such open and deliberate duplicity but it is manifest in the one called Ed Miliband.
An alliance, with the Libdems after the next GE would suit both real-scum and jaundiced flotsam red and yellow parties admirably. Further, though I hold no candle nor sympathy for him, because dimwitted but nice – Dave’s very pale blue edged pink party and all, his bat plays rather too straight for they.