Previous Labour government had secret immigration plan

A former adviser to the UK Labour Government has alleged that Tony Blair and Jack Straw made secret plans to develop a multi-cultural Britain by allowing easy access to immigrants due to fears of widespread backlash if the move was made public.

The ‘dishonest’ strategy was announced by Andrew Neather who worked under Jack Straw during his time as Home Secretary who said the move was designed to deliberately humiliate the leftist government’s right-wing opposition to immigration. Neather claimed that a secret report from 2000 planned for mass immigration to change the cultural make-up of Britain as a snub to conservatives.

Neather suggested that the decision to open the country’s borders to foreign workres was a part of a complex scheme to fill shortages in the labour market and was politically motivated.

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants were allowed into Britain in the years since 2000 spearheading the role of Blair’s think-tank on Performance and Innovation (PUI) which argued the benefits of migrants to the UK economy. The result saw a huge influx of Eastern-European and EU nationals travel to work in the UK at a time when the strong pound made Britain an attractive option.

Neather said that reports preceding the PUI findings that were never revealed publicly showed a definite trend towards wanting to make a political statement against anti-diversity arguments by the Right and to make their policies seem outdated. The movement also decided to label Tory leaders Michael Howard and William Hague as racist to prevent them from publicly criticising the initiative. Hague accused Blair in 2001 of turning the UK into a foreign land which he in turn was accused of ‘playing the race card’ for. Howard was labeled a racist after criticising Labour’s position on asylum seekers in 2004.