Yesterday Pat Glass came under fire after she described a voter — who expressed concerns about a ‘scrounging’ Polish family — as a ‘horrible racist’. With the Labour MP since criticised for refusing to listen to voter concerns about immigration, the topic was at least up for discussion on last night’s Question Time.
As David Dimbleby chaired a panel — which included Amber Rudd, Ukip’s Paul Nuttall and Paul Mason — in Walsall, an audience member raised concerns that immigration in the UK disproportionately effects places like Walsall and Toxteth rather than Islington and Morningside.
At which point Mason — a former member of the Trotskyist Workers’ Power group — interjected, telling the man that the reason there are a high number of immigrants in Toxteth is down to slavery:
‘Do you know why there are so many immigrants in Toxteth? Do you know why there are so many black people in Toxteth? Because that is where they were taken as slaves when Liverpool was a slave port.’
However, while Toxteth did become home to wealthy slave merchants and slaves when Liverpool was a slave port in the 18th century, the influx of immigrants to the area is largely put down to the mass immigration after WW2.
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Paul Mason has just exposed himself and he knows nothing about post-war migration in the UK #Slavery
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