Bernard Dineen: Labour's secret ploy that changed Britain

The cat has been let out of the bag by a former government adviser and speech-writer to Tony Blair, Jack Straw and David Blunkett. He has revealed that there was a 2000 Cabinet Office report outlining a strategy to open Britain to mass migration. "The driving political purpose was that it would make the UK truly multicultural" and it would "rub the Right's nose in diversity". The report was kept secret at the time – "there was paranoia about it reaching the media". It was released a year later, but only after mention of its "social objectives" had been removed. Six out of eight references were deleted.

The policy would have been overwhelmingly opposed by the British people if they had known about it. That is why it had to be kept secret. None of it was mentioned in Labour's manifesto of 1997 or 2001.

We only know now because the pressure group Migrationwatch used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain the policy paper from October 2000. Migrationwatch has done sterling service in exposing Labour's immigration deception over the years.

Labour even set up a group of civil servants in the Home Office to combat the group's claims: it had to be disbanded after reporting that the group's claims were all true.

The policy certainly worked. In the past 12 years, three million immigrants have arrived: under Labour there have been an additional 300,000 from the Old Commonwealth and a million from the new Commonwealth. Half the births in London are now from foreign-born mothers.

In Reading, as many as 150 languages are spoken by children in their homes and pressure is put on schools because many of them have little or no command of English.

The languages include the Ghanaian dialect of Akan, the Aztec tongue Nahuatl, and Chichewa from central Africa.

For Labour, there has been an electoral benefit because the

ethnic communities vote overwhelmingly in their favour: At least 20 constituencies will be decided by Asian votes, including Jack Straw's, according to the former minister Chris Mullin.

How did Labour get away with it? Because anyone who dared to raise the issue was shouted down and accused of racism. So the whole make-up of British society has been changed by Labour and it is far too late to reverse the process.

I TEND to believe judges when they talk about the law but not when they pontificate about anti-terrorist measures. The head of MI5 is right to hit back at comments which discredit his organisation.

Foreign intelligence services look with astonishment at the way our courts are used to undermine the fight against extremism. Far too many elements in the news media are prepared to believe any allegation by former detainees.

The hullabaloo over Binyam Mohammed is a godsend to MI5's enemies. For some reason, the Government went to endless lengths to bring him back from Guantanamo, even sending a private jet.

Why? He is not a British citizen. He is being referred to as a "British

resident" but on what grounds? He is an Ethiopian who stopped over in Britain for a short time but then opted for Afghanistan where he said he wanted to see if the Taliban was running a nice regime. There are allegations that he attended a training camp there.

We rely on MI5 and the other security services to protect us and they have thwarted many attempted terrorist attacks. Discrediting them is exactly what the extremists seek.

THE trial of the crooked police officer Ali Dizaei exposed the way he was able to run wild because his bosses were scared to discipline an ethnic-minority officer.

Amazingly, while he was actually on bail awaiting trial, he travelled to Iran as the honoured guest of President Ahmadinejad, the Holocaust denier who wants Israel to be wiped off the face of the earth and is building a nuclear bomb. Members of the Revolutionary Guard queued to meet him.

How could this happen? Because Dizaei was travelling in his capacity as a member of the National Black Police Association. And the Metropolitan Police paid 590 towards the cost of his trip to Tehran.

Years ago I told a senior police officer, now a Chief Constable, that they were piling up trouble by allowing such an association to be set up. Does anyone now doubt it?

WHEN Labour politicians start weeping on television, it's time for crocodiles to look to their laurels. No one would diminish grief from any bereavement but if Gordon Brown feels like weeping, let him weep also for the soldiers who died because he starved the Armed Forces of funds when he was Chancellor. Like the tank

sergeant from Yorkshire who was killed after he gave his body armour to a comrade because there wasn't enough to go around.