White Britons deserting Blair for far right
White, working-class Britons feel so furious about immigration that they are deserting Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour Party for the far right, a key Blair ally told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper.
Employment Minister Margaret Hodge said that 80 percent of white people in her east London constituency of Barking were threatening to vote for the British National Party (BNP) in the May local elections.
Former voters for Blair's governing centre-left party were angry about a lack of affordable housing and blamed their worries on Labour neglect and immigration, she told the weekly broadsheet.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. "They can't get a home for their children, they see black and ethnic minority communities moving in and they are angry," Hodge said.
"When I knock on doors I say to people, 'are you tempted to vote BNP?' and many, many, many -- eight out of 10 of the white families -- say 'yes'. That's something we have never seen before.
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