Over at Burning our Money today is a good post on our governments peddling of lies on the subject of immigration into the UK. It seems that their oft repeated assertion that it was just to make us all richer and to fill vacant jobs is just a cover for the real reason of wanting to change the nature of UK society for good.

There is also an additional benefit to the government in that immigrants from certain parts of the world are more likely to vote Labour than for any other party so the government get more votes from their policy too. From todays Telegraph :

So why take such a big risk with their traditional supporters? Could there have been a political prize to justify it? Here, I suspect, is the key.

According to research conducted for the Electoral Commission in 2005, the ethnic communities vote heavily in favour of Labour. Labour gets about 80 per cent support from the African and Caribbean vote, compared with 2-3 per cent for the Conservatives. For Asian voters, it is about 50 per cent to 10 per cent.

Since 1997, new Commonwealth immigration has reached nearly one million, almost all of it in England. Even if only half were to vote, this would mean roughly an extra 325,000 votes for Labour.

At the 2005 election, the two main parties were neck and neck. The new Commonwealth voters would, to some extent, go to Labour-held constituencies but even so, extra votes on this scale are not to be sniffed at – especially if you can get away with it.

It was, however, the introduction to the BoM post grabbed my attention :

“In the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves… would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.
Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.”

That sounded to me like a surprisingly truthful politician or an academic with an interest in psychology so imagine my surprise when the source of the quote is revealed as Mein Kampf, vol1, chapter 10.