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02/22/2009: "Side with foreigners, says peer"

Politicians must start defending foreign workers to prevent extremist parties gaining sway during the recession, Britain's new European commissioner says today, in what will be seen as a veiled warning to the British government not to whip up nationalist sentiment.

Lady Ashton, who was until last autumn leader of the Lords under Gordon Brown, acknowledged in an interview with the Observer that there was a risk of significant advances in this spring's European elections for extremists in the present economic climate. She said mainstream politicians must be careful not to fan the flames: "In any kind of economic downturn, it is incumbent on us all to be putting across exactly the same message about the value and importance of having... diversity in communities; about the value and benefit of people from different countries coming and creating wealth.

"There are reasons we have to support that and not to get trapped into what the extremists would like, which would be to take their simplistic approach and fit it into a very complicated situation. So I hope that people will just reject as nonsense the idea that the solution lies in some kind of xenophobic attitude to people who live, work, study or travel in our country, because they bring the economy far more than they take out.

[ It has been quite well established that immigration in fact damages the economy with just a few extra rich entrepreneurs making up for some of the cost of crime, welfare payments, medicine etc. But in any case the economy doesn't serve the nation, the money being spent on foreign aid and various wasteful and treasonous purposes. ]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/feb/22/bnp-recession-job-losses