English Labour MP Calls For End To Mass Immigration

Frank Field [1] is the Labour Party, (i.e. left-wing) Member of Parliament for Birkenhead, in England, which is where I grew up. [2] (Stop me if you've heard this before, but I'm an immigrant myself. [3]) He said recently of Britain's dramatically increased immigration:

"The revolution is on a par with Stalin's forced migration of Ukraine. He set out to transform Ukraine by forcing out the existing population [4]and replacing it with citizens loyal to the Soviet Republic.

"The Ukrainians did not vote for Stalin's brutal policy. Nor have voters here agreed to the transformation of England."

icLiverpool - Birkenhead MP calls for end to mass immigration [5]

The interesting thing about this is that it's a left-wing MP who's talking like this. Enoch Powell, [6]who was the unofficial opposition to the center-left consensus [7] after his great speech on immigration [8], was a Conservative.

The Labour Party, for ideological reasons, couldn't speak out against the mass immigration of Indians and Jamaicans, although Harold Wilson, fearful of the electoral consequences [7]of doing nothing about it, actually passed into law an immigration reform act in 1968. [9]

In fact, one reason why Powell's prediction of demographic disaster didn't come true sooner than it did is because the Labour Party, while speaking out against him, had done a good deal of what he asked.

But if a Labour MP is actually saying this publicly, the times have changed. They must have--few Labour MPs of the 50s and 60s would have criticized Stalin, either.