More racists attacks from the Tories

Michael Howard is playing the race card again. And again he forgets to mention that the "problem" he sees is actually a result of Tory policies.

Councils used to have a duty to provide sites for travellers, but the Tories abolished that responsibility when Michael Howard was Home Sectretary. Now Tory Councils like Brentwood refuse to provide council owned sites and refuse to help identify sites that travellers can purchase (at no cost to the taxpayer). The inevitable result is that travellers have to park up illegally, providing the Tories with an ideal opportunity to hurl racist abuse and sterotypes at travelling people.

Even the local Tory candidate admits that the anti-immigration posters run by the Tories a few weeks ago were "insensitive", but it seems that the Tory leadership are set on whipping up imagined threats for the Daily Mail to rant about. It just goes to show that the Tories don't change their spots and however pleasant individual local candidates are, a vote for the Tories is a vote for racism and xenophobia.