Casual Racism Is Fine If You’re Labour

The Dark (Glasses) Lord Returns – Paul Waugh
Miliband Gives It Two Barrels, On His Own Feet - The Commentator
Even Miliband Knew He Had Lost – Speccie
Miliband As Strong as Balsa Wood – Dan Knowles
Huhne Just Can’t Escape Pryce – The Mole
European Commission Backs Osborne’s Plan A – FT
Huhne Could Cause Unwanted Re-Shuffle – Ben Brogan
The IMF’s Plan B is Faster Deeper – Paul Waugh
What If Weinergate Was in the UK – Charles Crawford
Don’t Let Ed Balls Bore You Into Submission – Andrew Lilico
Climate Models Go Cold – Financial Post
Northern Ireland is a Beggar – Shane Greer
End This Drug Madness – LabourList
Balls Met Cooper on Hampstead Heath - Total Politics
Another Failed Declaration of War by Cable – Harry Cole

Casual Racism Is Fine If You’re Labour

Imagine the outrage if a Tory MP had said“migrant workers do things like picking strawberries and digging potatoes“. They would be rightly slammed as hideously out of touch and bigoted, yet barely an eyebrow was raised when Glenda Jackson said it at the Work and Pensions Select Committee meeting this morning. Glenda should do her homework. Despite her patronising comments, via the ONS, we learn that agriculture has one of the lowest migrant employment figures of any sector:

Guido isn’t sure many of Britain’s foreign-born multi-billionaires got rich picking fruit…