Derbyshire On ECONOMIST Immigration Piece: "I Have Rarely Seen Elite Contempt So Brazenly Expressed."
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The Open-Borders nation-haters at The Economist have come out with one of their strangest pieces yet.
Titled "A bad day for foreign scroungers," it reports on how Britain's political class is being dragged towardsimmigration restriction, very much against its will, by ─ ugh! ─ voters.
The subtitle of the piece is: But a worse one for David Cameron, as the prime minister panders to the xenophobes.
The piece goes downhill from there.
Who are "the xenophobes"? The Economist huffs:
For Phil [one of the constituents of Ben Gummer, a Conservative Member of Parliament], his neighbours and almost every resident of the four Ipswich streets Mr Gummer was canvassing, that is part of the problem. Immigrants, they said, were taking their jobs, their benefits and their children’s future.
So...pretty much everyone, then. ...
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