Miliband admits immigrant workers in pole position

So, like squeezing blood from a stone, Labour has at last admitted that unconstrained immigration from what was once called Eastern Europe made life a lot harder for many British people. Ed Miliband said the following:

“What I think people were worried about, in relation to Polish immigration in particular, was that they were seeing their wages, their living standards driven down. Part of the job of government is if you are going to have an open economy within Europe you have got to give that protection to employees so that they don’t see workers coming in and undercutting them.”

Of course, one of the things you are not supposed to do if you are the Labour Party is drive down the wages and living standards of the very people you were set up to represent. But back then anyone who raised the issue was castigated as a “raaaaaacist”. There was still no word from Ed, mind, on what he would do to reduce the subsequent waves of incoming immigration – so presumably he believes driving down the living standards of the working class is still preferable to any form of immigration cap.