Legitimate concern trolls

We hear a lot about the "legitimate concerns" of "ordinary people" about immigration.  But we hear very little about how those concerns have been deliberately inflamed by an elite clique of well-funded, well-connected propagandists, close to the heart of government.

Here's a brief portrait of the British establishment's favourite concern trolls from the Ducksoap blog:

“We [the Migration Watch pressure group] are an independent, non political body which is concerned about the present scale of immigration into the UK.”

Civil servant Andrew Green created Migration Watch as a tool to be used by governments to help the latter justify anti-immigrant policy. Thus, the words “independent” and “non political” in the think-tank’s declaration are vital to ensure the government can claim, falsely, to be advised by a separate unbiased entity. Green’s assistance to successive governments’ anti-immigration policies was rewarded with a peerage in 2014.

Migration Watch focuses on blaming immigration for all of Britain’s economic woes and consequential issues with the NHS, housing, employment etc. It is standard misdirection, accompanied by comical abuse of statistics.

It is, by now, a bit late to point out that scapegoating minorities for political advantage never ends well, but it's only fair that professional migrant-bashers like Andrew Green at least take their share of the blame for the outbreak of xenophobic self-harm currently paralysing the UK.