Labour and immigration (even more revelations)

Following the David Teather revelations, The Mail reports that:

"Labour censored a hugely controversial report on immigration to remove details of its possible links to organised crime, street fights and begging, it emerged last night.

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yesterday the row took a twist when it emerged that key passages which may have harmed the case for Britain adopting an open-door immigration policy had also been airbrushed from the report.

They included a section headed 'criminal behaviour', which warned of possible links between mass immigration and some crimes.

The passages were allegedly removed when the report was being finalised in 2000 by the Cabinet Office's Performance and Innovation Unit, which has been described as a Blairite 'think tank' operating at the heart of Whitehall.

One of the sections missing from the final report, which was published in 2001, said: 'There is emerging evidence that the circumstances in which asylum seekers are living is leading to criminal offences, including fights and begging.'

A second section warned: 'Migration has opened up new opportunities for organised crime.'

It stressed that migrants were not more likely to be criminals, despite more foreign nationals ending up in prison.

The prison figures were down to foreign visitors being held at airports and ports for drug smuggling, and did not relate to migrants looking to settle in the UK, the report said. But Downing Street allegedly removed the section because it was 'nervous' about how it would be received.

Other crimes linked to migration included 'marriage rackets', drug and people trafficking and fraud.

Another passage proposing a cross-government communications strategy on migration to inspire a more positive public attitude was also pulled.

The draft, leaked to London's Evening Standard, also claimed that racism towards black migrants had come 'not just from extremists or working class communities, but from politicians and policy-makers at the highest level'. This was not included in the final report."

This story is a big one, but the BBC is doing its best to minimise coverage in an effort to protect both its friends in the labour government and the multicultural agenda that it has been promoting for so many years.


As I blogged earlier this morning:

"Melanie Phillips thinks David Cameron should raise the subject of David Teather's revelations about Labour's immigration policy and I agree, but I would say it most unlikely that he will. If he does then he risks Gordon Brown labelling him and the Conservative Party as "racist"; do remember that Gordon Brown has nothing to lose and also seemingly has no regard for the truth these days."