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.”

Rebel MPs up pressure on Lord Mandelson over Royal Mail sellout

From The Sunday Times December 28, 2008
by Jonathan Oliver, Political Editor

Lord Mandelson is preparing to make concessions over the part-privatisation of Royal Mail after warnings that up to 100 Labour backbenchers will rebel against the government over its plans.

The business secretary is expected to offer a statutory guarantee that no more than about a third of the postal service will be sold to the private sector.

Labour rebels have been concerned that Mandelson’s plan, rushed out just before parliament’s Christmas break, is a “slippery slope” towards full-scale privatisation.

However, last night a senior government source said Mandelson was ready to give ground to the rebels: “The potential for rebellion is huge. There need to be clear reassurances that we have no intention of pushing further.”

Under Mandelson’s scheme, between 25% and 33% ( *For Now just watch this change when things are quieter) of the postal service will go to a foreign buyer. The government would take on responsibility for Royal Mail’s £7 billion pension deficit, making the business more attractive to a potential private investor.

THE BIG SELL OFF OF THE UN-UNITED KINGDOM

Well after todays secret SALE of our nuclear production plant to the US we don’t seem to have much left.

UK’s Atomic Production SOLD to an American company.

The government has sold its last remaining shares in the Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment in Berkshire to an American company.

The move means Britain no longer has any stake in the production of its Trident nuclear warheads.

We Sell Off yet another vital UK Asset

Opposition MPs have criticised the sale, but the Ministry of Defence said Britain’s “sovereign interests” had been protected.

The fee paid by California-based Jacobs Engineering has not been disclosed.

The sale of British Nuclear Fuels’ stake means Jacobs has control of one third of Aldermaston’s operating company, AWE Management.

The other two thirds were already in private hands. They are split equally between American defence giant Lockheed Martin and the British plc Serco.