If you thought the Leader of The Opposition calling economic concerns about taking in thousands of refugees “far right” was as far low as Labour would go, then you would be deeply mistaken. In the recent Labour weekly magazine the member for Clydeside accused my party of having a program to “benefit white people” and accused us of being racist.
I as a proud immigrant will take no lectures from the metropolitan elite in the Labour Party, the LPUK has a diverse set of representatives from a range of backgrounds and the notion that we are racist is pure fantasy. For years we treated European migrants as above non european ones by having an open door to Europe but a different set of rules for everyone else. Someone from Germany who had equal skills to someone living in Pakistan would get in purely based on their nationality. Under a points based immigration system we would treat everyone equally based upon skill and would essentially apply what we have for non-EEA migrants to the EU, leading to a fair immigration system.
The Labour Party proposed free movement for countries with ¾ of our GNI per capita which would have benefitted mainly white wealthy countries. The policy of having free movement for some and not having it for others is discriminatory. RedWolf clearly doesn’t have the slightest clue about his parties policies or the current migration system in the UK.
He already embarrassed himself in the house of commons when talking about green belts as some massive boon to the environment when in fact much of the green belt is environmentally costly and protections could be put in place for land of environmental beauty. I can guarantee he has not read the member for Surrey’s brilliant white paper which abolished tier 1 and tier 2 visas, opening the UK up to talented workers from across the world. It unlike labour’s policies treated people equally, ending the discriminatory immigration policy him and his fellow euro fanatics supported for years.
If this wasn’t enough,according to Redwolf apparently questioning the costing of a universal childcare programme and opposing over £30bn of taxpayer money going towards is “far-right” and makes you comparable to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi’s (let’s forget that the so called “far-right have more economic policy in common with Labour than they ever would with me and my party). Anyone who dares to question ARichTeaBiscuit and their hard left cult on the numbers is labelled as far-right. Point out that climate refugees do not fall within the scope of the Rome treaty? Far-right. Believe that we should have some control on immigration? Far-right. Believe that we should have a childcare similar that we had prior to 2018 or other countries like Norway or Spain? Far-right.
The Labour Party, by allowing these views to be published are showing nothing but outright disrespect to those who suffered under fascist regimes and should be ashamed of themselves. I am confident that they won’t feel an inch of shame as they love to make virtue signals and paint anyone who dares oppose their fantasy economies as a facist. Labour are poisoning our politics and are spreading toxicity into political discourse in this country.
ARichTeaBiscuit and RedWolf may think they are entitled to the votes of minority groups but they can take it from me, that Labour do not speak for all immigrants and for a lot of hard working immigrant families such as mine. Many immigrants believe in Libertarian and conservative values and the LPUK are proud to stand up for immigrants who have come to this country, worked hard, contributed to our economy and we will defend them from the tax rises Labour has planned. Hard work and aspiration are values that many immigrant families hold and it’s a key factor why many of them vote for the LPUK. No doubt Labour will call them traitors for daring to vote for someone who disagrees with them. I would not be surprised if BAME right wing representatives were labelled as “tokens” by the Labour Party. They only care about minorities if it suits their agenda otherwise they could not care less.
In the same fashion that Labour feel entitled to the votes of minority groups, they feel entitled to Liberal Democrat support and if the Lib Dems dare not work with Labour they are painted as evil austerity or tory enablers. It is somewhat bizarre that Labour attacked the Lib Dems for working with my party on issues that the Lib Dems have compromised on before or indeed share values with us. I would note the Leader of the Liberal Democrats voted for our child care proposal, will Labour condemn him as far-right? With a Shadow Chancellor who wants to leave NATO and slash defence spending below 2% and a Labour Party that wants to abolish our nuclear deterrent I would argue that the Libertarians and Liberal Democrats have far more in common than the Lib Dems and Labour. Labour’s man in the treasury is a self proclaimed marxist, a man who is open about his desire for socialism, let’s be under no illusion that a Labour government is a threat to the liberal market economy that has existed for decades. It has never been more important for parties on the centre and centre-right to set aside their differences to prevent economic disaster.
The Liberal Democrats are a party which descends from Gladstone, we share values on economic liberalism, free markets, free trade and free enterprise, do we disagree on some areas? Sure but we fundamentally agree on the economic system. When it comes to civil liberties or the green belt our parties share common ground. Labour are scared of a new alliance of economic liberalism which is willing to take its backward outdated regressive ideas head on. As always they throw around accusations of racism but I know many of my friends in the Liberal Democrats will not be swayed by Labour’s gutter politics, I have thoroughly enjoyed working with them and working in the national interest.
This whole ongoing debacle shows how out of touch Labour are with the public and the working class,the LPUK are surging in the polls and my determination is unaltered. The LPUK will continue to fight Labour’s toxic brand of politics and push for common sense immigration and economic policy. It’s important we take them head on and dismantle their pathetic arguments and fallacies one by one.
/u/friedmanite19 is the Leader of the Libertarian Party United Kingdom and is the MP for Somerset and Bristol.
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