[kabar]

In the UK there is actually a political consensus that immigration must be reduced drastically. It started from the BNP's slogan, "British jobs for British workers." Amazingly every major British party now supports reduced immigration.

A recent poll found that the party that supports the working man is now UKIP, not Labour. If the Stupid Party, the GOP, would be smart enough to let the Dems own amnesty and increased immigration, and instead, become the party of the working man echoing the slogan American jobs for American workers, they would flip the electoral advantage now held by the Dems.

Both parties have abandoned the American worker. There will be a third party if the Dems and GOP maintain their current stances on immigration. The GOP wants more guest workers to satisfy the demands of their corporate paymasters. The Dems want more immigrants to make them the permanent majority party. The ball is now in the GOP's court on how they handle Obama's amnesty and what solutions they propose on legal immigration.

[Nextrush]

In the special election last week UKIP took 2/3 of the Conservative voters and 40 percent of the Labour voters in winning with 42 percent of the vote.

UKIP has been drawing in the British National Party voters and even one percent of the voters who supported the small Christian Party in the UK.

If they can pull that all together nationally on May 7th, 2015 in the General Election, they could hit 38 percent of the popular vote, which would get them a majority and victory in the election.

Nigel Farage has a more realistic goal of building UKIP into the party holding the balance of power focusing on 100 or so of the 650 seats in Parliament. We’ll see how that plays out.....

The Democrat and Republican politicians are both making big special interests that line their pockets happy. They are for the big business elites and not the small business owner or average person.

[Dagnabitt]

An American "Immigration Reduction Party" would have to go a bit left on some issues to have a chance of doing anything besides taking GOP votes. Like - Immigration reduction for the environment! Or something about prioritizing U.S. blacks over new migrants.

Gotta scare both parties to actually achieve something.

[nathanbedford]

You are absolutely right and Chuck Schumer knows it that is why he was at the National Press Club telling them the Democrats are going to make this pitch for the middle-class and instructing them on how to present the strategy to the public.

Meanwhile the stupid party will take its money from Wall Street and fulminate for the benefit of the base and prevaricate for the benefit of Karl Rove's constituency.

[wiggen]

i think, as the article illustrates, the parties all say that they’re for reduced immigration. Say is a bit different from actually being for it. Much like our Dems and too many pubbies, what they say about immigration and what they believe is quite different. To many it’s simply a numbers game and a perpetuation of their positions of power.