Mer om Glasman:
Daily Mail utnämner Glasman till "the voice of reason":
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/ar...n-control.html
Citat:
In two succinct sentences, an influential thinker sums up the feelings of millions whose views on mass immigration have been vilified by the political establishment for decades.
Calling for a freeze on inward migration in all but exceptional cases, Lord Glasman declares: ‘Britain is not an outpost of the United Nations. We have to put the people in this country first.’
And, no, this is no xenophobic Right-wing maverick speaking. On the contrary, Lord Glasman is one of Ed Miliband’s closest advisers – a man of impeccable anti-racist credentials, who owes his seat in the Lords to the Labour leader.
Yet he goes further than any Tory front-bencher, demanding that we renegotiate our EU membership to stem the free flow of workers from eastern Europe.
Isn’t this pure logic? For how can the Government keep its promise of cutting net immigration to just tens of thousands each year, if it leaves the door wide open to our European partners?
Only last week, the Office for National Statistics reported that more than three quarters of new jobs go to workers born overseas – while other estimates put the figure as high as 85 per cent.
At a time when millions of able-bodied Britons are on benefits, how long can we continue with this madness?
Needless to say, Mr Miliband is pedalling fast to distance himself from his adviser. But it’s progress of a sort that Lord Glasman is allowed to express his views without being attacked as a racist.The real breakthrough will not come, however, until the political establishment finds the courage to confront the EU over immigration – and truly starts to put the people of Britain first.
Från en intervju med Glasman i The Guardian:
Citat:
"We've tended to accept a neo-liberal, globalised view of the movement of labour," he tells me. "Labour is seen as a transferable commodity that moves around the world seeking higher wages, and no thought is given to the fact that these are human beings with families and relationships. This works against any wage controls and wage settlements at the lowest end. The free movement of labour is a bosses' agenda that overwhelmingly benefits the highest earners. They benefit from cheap nannies, who they often exploit, and from the general supply of cheap skilled labour. We also haven't given enough thought to the people who live here, whose wages have been forced down. Immigration has been a de facto wages policy for the past 30 years."
Citat:
There is, though, the little matter of free movement of labour under EU law. Glasman's answer is to remake the EU. "I've got a problem with the way the EU has gone, often under great pressure from British governments," he says. "It's gone from a union between France and Germany on pig iron and pig farms aimed at resisting commodification to free movement of labour and capital. It's administrative, it's legalistic, it's anti-political. People say: 'You can't do that, it's against EU law.' The EU has become a block on politics. It's full of lawyers, and that's not my kind of politics." He favours free movement of goods, of "real commodities", but not of what he calls "commodity fictions" – labour, land and capital. He supports a renegotiation of treaty obligations and a strengthening of labour rights in individual countries.
Hela den mycket intressanta intervjun här:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2...traditionalist
Glasman tycks ha fått ett mycket stort genomslag och hans initiativ kan få en oerhört stor betydelse för den politiska utvecklingen i Europa. Bollen ligger nu hos Ed Miliband.
