Not any more

Tomlinson has always placed ? and still places ? great store by being a working class man. He feels very strongly that the rights of workers have eroded steadily since the Thatcher years. At the time of his BNP involvement, he saw the culprits for this as immigrants. Today, he sees weak union leaders, government policies and the rise of the corporation as those to blame. However, at all times, his intention has been to support the worker. When you see this, his actions are more understandable, despite one's initial revulsion. He explains it better than I do:
"I am not the brightest guy in the world, but sitting on an upturned bucket on a building site, eating a cold cheese sarnie and worrying about where my next job would come from, some of the right wing arguments seemed dead easy to understand. All the ills of the country ? the overcrowding and the lack of jobs ? had been caused by too many people coming in. If we could stop the flood there would be plenty of houses and jobs to go round."

"It took another four years before I realised that by attacking immigration I was looking for a scapegoat for this country's ills. When you're at the bottom of the greasy pole, mired in s**t, you're always looking for someone else to blame."

Posted By: Black Creosote Time on December 30th 2009 at 17:41:34

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