The numbers game around immigration statistics has turned into a bloody battle.  There is a sense in which debates which solely contest the statistics of immigration miss many of the points
of anti-racist campaigning. Behind the statistics, are unsavoury politics. The political polls are suggesting the Con-Dem Coalition is, thus far, successful in both creating and exploiting commonsense racism and xenophobia. Such a climate would, of course, encourage a new wave of dangerous extremist violence. In the short term, though, lies, damn lies and statistics seem to be a useful marketing strategy for the far-right populist party British Conservatives are becoming.
Read the full article: By John Grayson, IRR, 9th February 2012