Review of Tom Bower, Broken Vows (Faber & Faber, 2016)
Few political indiscretions in Britain have had the effect of the Andrew Neather leak of six years ago. The former speech writer for Tony Blair recalled a a speech on immigration he had worked on and wrote: “Earlier drafts I saw also included a driving political purpose: that mass immigration was the way that the Government was going to make the UK truly multicultural.
“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was intended — even if this wasn’t its main purpose — to rub the Right’s nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date.”
The effects of this slip still reverberate today. Only now as we look back only eighteen years can we really discern the outline of something that had long been suspected – that there was a hostile secret agenda to impose multiculturalism on Britain and to transform the country beyond recognition.
More evidence for this has been gathered in a new book by author Tom Bower called “Broken Vows”. Bower has interviewed 200 members of Blair’s administrations including the civil servants closest to the immigration decision making. The sheer scale of the deception takes the breath away. Blair is said to have told ministers and officials: “Don’t mention the advantages of immigration in public because they won’t even want that.” ...
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