Hodge helps the BNP cause, again.

Yet again government minister, Margaret Hodge, has assisted the BNP cause, this time by calling for British families to be favoured over immigrant and asylum seekers, when it comes to the allocated of council houses.

This, she claims, is because British families feel they have "a legitimate sense of entitlement" to the limited amount of social houses, and stated that the rules should "promote torlerance, rather then inviting division." Now maybe I am being a bit stupid here, but how does implying that the shortage of council house is the fault of immigrants "promote torlerance..." I would have thought personally, that making such claims would invite division and encourge more people to vote BNP, rather then create unity and encourging people to vote Labour.

The fact is, policies of discrimination, be it agaisnt British people, or immigrants, will not help the council housing crisis that many people in Britain face today, what should be done to try and help improve the sitution is revoking the right to buy for the short term (however the right to buy is not a bad thing in itself), and also build more decent quality council homes (even if it means building over"green field" sites) and also more help for people to get onto the housing market, so the social housing system us not over burderned because house prices are too expensive.

We must not pander to the far-right to try and counter them, we must offer clear alternatives that can work, and it is not the fault of the immigrants that there are a lakc of council housing it is the fault of New "Labour" in the failure to build new houses, provide the funds and make sure that councils build them, its the failure of New "Labour" to make sure that people can afford to buy houses and get onto the housing ladder, however the government still has time to sort out the problem, by building new good quality council houses and by making sure that people can get onto the housing ladder, and not by pandering to the BNP. The fact is immigrants and asylum seekers do not get that much help from the state, they are not entitled to council houses and they have already got restrictions on their benifits.

It is a dangerous path to go down, when you start rationing services on the base of where people are from, how long before immigrants are denied NHS treatmet in favour of British people?, or places in state schools favour British pupils and not immigrants, and how long is it before immigrants end up as second class citizens, in the underclass of our society?

However it is not suprising that Margeret Hodge has made such statemetns, as she has made simular ones reguarding the BNP before, she should be offering real solutions to these problems, not trying to boost her own popularity by spouting off vile claptrap like she has down, and not by possibley floating ideas that may possibley be planted by some elements to test the water, prehapes, not saying that is the case though, but it is not unknown.

However such claims as the ones made by Margeret Hodge will only cause more racism and more resentment amoung people who feel that they are being negelected by the British government and will only serve to drive them into the arms of the BNP, for that Hodge should resign and not stand in the next election.