The commentators                    22-05-15

...on UK politics

The Labour party has been slaughtered but it was not the SNP that did the deed and it was not Ukip. They were accomplices to the act but it was carried out by the mortal enemy of the Labour party, the Conservatives. Yet if Labour MPs are any guide to the membership, the Labour party is going to select a leader on the assumption that it needs to refight all the battles it won and abandon the battle it lost. The party is preparing a political strategy of quite unfathomable stupidity.
- Philip Collins, The Times
Fraser Nelson
The surest way of cutting immigration is to crash the economy; a task that Ed Miliband would easily have managed. But Mr Cameron has chosen a different path: that of economic success and the headaches that accompany it. The UK has become one of the most successful melting pots in the world, a country so open-minded as to be colour blind. It emerged this week that ethnic minorities in Britain are, if anything, more likely to hold the top jobs (doctors, lawyers, bankers) than whites.
- Fraser Nelson, Daily Telegraph
Labour appears to accept that voters don’t know what Labour stands for, but it can’t help that Labour doesn’t know what Labour stands for. To find something to stand for, the candidates could have looked at yesterday’s papers. It turns out that the banks, despite all that’s happened, have still been fiddling currencies, jeopardising the global economy to make themselves even richer.
- Mark Steel, The Independent
Immigration is largely out of the UK Government’s control, under EU rules about the free movement of labour, and that the high immigration figures are a mark of the Government’s success. It was the expanding economy, with its wealth of job opportunities, which drew people here. And the result was not that British workers were put out of work: the number of Britons in work went up.
- The Independent
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Comment archive, 2015

Ed Miliband
March 27 Prince Charles's letters
March 26 UK politics
March 25 Cameron's exit strategy
March 24 Lee Kwan Yew
March 23 UK politics
Jim Murphy, Scottish Labour party conference
March 13 UK politics
March 12 Jeremy Clarkson
March 11 UK politics
March 10 UK politics
March 9 UK politics
Rifkind and Straw
February 27 UK politics
February 26 Minor party leaders
February 25 Natalie Bennett
February 24 Rifkind and Straw
February 23 World affairs
Merkel and Putin
February 13 UK politics
February 12 UK politics
February 11 UK politics
February 10 UK politics
February 9 Politics
Alexis Tsipras
January 30 Rape law
January 29 UK politics
January 28 UK politics
January 27 Greece
January 26 UK politics
Hebdo demo
January 16 World politics
January 15 Election debates
January 14 Charlie Hebdo
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George Osborne
March 20 UK politics
March 19 The Budget
March 18 UK politics
March 17 Race in Britain
March 16 UK politics
Boris Nemtsov
March 6 Scotland and the election
March 5 Isis
March 4 UK politics
March 3 Radicalisation
March 2 Russia
Copenhagen
February 20 UK politics
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February 6 UK politics
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January 23 UK politics
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January 20 Anti-semitism 
January 19 Religion and freedom
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January 9 Charlie Hebdo
January 8 Charlie Hebdo
January 7 UK politics
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