Britain's Workers Need Witch-Hunts, Not Mere Evidence

A study which found that there is little evidence of British workers being deprived of their jobs by immigrants actually vindicates Conservative claims of the exact opposite and is in any case backward-looking and not really worth much attention. Such is the claim of James Brokenshire, the nasty little replacement for the nasty little Home Office flunkey Mark Harper, who resigned when it was discovered he was unwittingly harbouring an unauthorised wog among his servants. Brokenshire, who facially resembles a younger and even less distinguished version of the race-baiting New Labour cockroach Phil Woolas, looks unlikely to find the dead man's shoes much of a squeeze, intellectually speaking. Much like the badger-busting Owen Paterson fumbling with anthropogenic climate change, where the unanimous opinion of a mere ninety-five per cent of the experts does not constitute a certainty, Brokenshire has ruled that "little evidence in favour" means "cannot be ruled out", and that "cannot be ruled out" constitutes ample grounds for the witch-hunt to continue. Doubtless it was this resounding endorsement of coalition policy in the report which motivated the National Liberal British Workers' Party to delay sneaking it out until today.