There’s no benefit in being white and working class That is why its immigration policy, with its insistence that every immigrant has exactly the same rights as long-standing members of British society, has come into such sharp collision with the views of the white working class.

Labour’s obsession with an open-door immigration policy has hit its core vote hardest, writes Alasdair Palmer

The Labour leadership seems finally to be waking up to the fact that the party’s immigration policy has not been popular with what has traditionally been seen as its core vote: Britain’s white working class. The development appears to have taken Hazel Blears, the Communities Secretary, by surprise. She reacted to a report commissioned by her department that found that many working class whites feel “betrayed” by saying that “the report shows there are real complexities around perceptions [of Government] held by the white working class.”

The Jaguar Land Rover dilemma

Jaguar Land Rover's Indian owner Tata bought the marques in March

Sorry but there not British any longer -

“Jaguar Land Rover is in trouble. Nothing new there. Ford sold the two British carmakers for reasons beyond its own dire finances.

But what is causing jaws to drop is how readily the Indian industrial giant Tata is going cap-in-hand to the UK government asking for financial assistance, less than nine months after acquiring the brands”.

Royal Mail stake to be sold to private foreign firm in £3bn deal

Extracts from BBC NEWS Friday, 18 February, 2005, 00:01 GMT

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Royal Mail loses postal monopoly

The Royal Mail’s 350-year monopoly is to end at the start of 2006, 15 months earlier than previously planned.

The UK’s postal service market will be fully liberalised from 1 January 2006, regulator Postcomm announced, following three months of consultation.

From that date, any licensed operator will be able to deliver mail to business and residential customers.
Royal Mail, which controls 99% of the market, welcomed the news but the main postal union said it was “ill-advised”.

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) warned the decision will place “the country’s cherished universal service in jeopardy”.

The CWU also criticised what it said was a “competition at all costs” ethos which it says will put the Post Office at a serious competitive disadvantage to its European rivals.