The great white backlash: Working class turns on Labour over immigration and housing

Labour's Hazel Blears has finally admitted the white working class feels betrayed and abandoned as immigration surges. The Mail went to her own constituency - and found a seething anger that should worry us all...The official at the housing office was typically blunt. His third customer of the day, a blonde with a northern accent, the pinched face of poverty and a baby in a buggy, looked crestfallen when she heard the news. 'You'll have to wait between one and ten years for a flat from us,' he said, blithely, from behind his desk. 'There are 18,000 people on the waiting list and, as of today, only 30 homes to go round.' No wonder that when the young woman left, pushing the buggy out of the door into the sleeting rain of the shopping precinct in Salford, Greater Manchester, she looked near to tears. In her haste, she almost collided with Jason Hedgecock, a 20-year-old chef, who has also been queuing at the city's Home Search office.

This is an excerpt taken from today’s Daily Mail; the full article can be read here. This should make very worrying reading for Labour Party members. Judging from their postings on this blog in relation to the Newton by-election, one could easily be forgiven for thinking they are desperate to win it, in fact so desperate that they mobilise over 60 people on just one day, something that even they admit is a record, to help in a campaign in a fairly non descript ward in an election that sees the winning candidate elected into office for less than fourteen months. I personally think Labour is exposing their weakness by focusing so much effort into this campaign. I have had no leaflets sent from any other parties contesting this election yet, however, I would expect the Conservatives and BNP to put in a strong campaign and in light of this article in today’s Mail; the BNP would foolish not to actively target the parts of the ward which is ‘natural’ Labour territory.
Tameside Citizen