In this clip from a longer interview for the discussion show "So What You're Saying Is...", Lord Green, a retired British Ambassador and currently the chair of the think tank “Migration Watch”, quotes directly from a 2009 article in London's Evening Standard by Andrew Neather, a top aide in the UK Labour Party. In it Neather admitted a major motivation for Mass Migration was to "Rub the Right's nose in Diversity". This policy was embarked upon despite the potential impact large-scale immigration might have on “Labour’s core white working-class vote.”
Andrew Neather was a senior speechwriter and adviser in the Labour Government of Tony Blair intimately involved in the discussions surrounding the policy.
Reading from the article, Lord Green quotes Neather:
“It didn’t just happen. The deliberate policy of ministers from late 2000 until at least late last year [2009] was to open up the UK to mass immigration.” Andrew Neather noted this was a major shift from the policy of previous governments.
"I [Andrew Neather] wrote the landmark speech given by then immigration minister Barbara Roche in September 2000, calling for a loosening of controls... …the earlier drafts I saw also included a driving political purpose: that mass immigration was the way that the Government was going to make the UK truly multicultural", he went on to write.
"I remember coming away from some discussions with the clear sense that the policy was intended - even if this wasn't its main purpose - to rub the Right's nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date. That seemed to me to be a manoeuvre too far. …
He concluded that "there was a reluctance elsewhere in government to discuss what increased immigration would mean, above all for Labour's core white working-class vote. This shone through even in the published report: the 'social outcomes' it talks about are solely those for immigrants."
Lord Green could not say whether Labour's initial mass migration policy was also motivated by a belief that these immigrant communities might later become Labour vote.
Andrew Neather's revelation, backed up by other sources, was clearly a huge embarrassment for the Labour Party of the time. Indeed, despite implementing such a fundamental change to the demography of Britain, the former Labour PM barely mentions immigration in his memoirs, says Lord Green.
Lord Green and Peter Whittle believe this remarkable revelation did not receive due attention at the time due to the BBC's reluctance to draw attention to the subject.
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