Setting Himself Up For The Next Labour Leader

[youngmafbog]

Wow, just wow. Never thought I would see the day a labour person spoke sense

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4089544/ALL-migrants-learn-English-moving-UK-Verdict-Labour-MP-s-time-ditch-failed-multiculturalism.html

[Togo]

Plus they can't call him racist, or fascist.

[mikey4444]

YMB....Umunna is speaking as the Chair of the all-party Parliamentary Group on Social Integration, not as an Labour MP in itself.

This conclusion is therefore the conclusion of the Group, not the views of any one Member.

For the record, I think this conclusion is correct.

[Khandro]

The problem isn't just about language, Anjem Choudary speaks good English.

[ichkeria]

While I agree with Mr Umunna (it hasn't been a good few months for sensible people in Labour, or indeed anywhere) the following is interesting:
"We now need a meaningful integration programme which works for all parts of the UK and an immigration policy which allows all to celebrate and look beyond our differences: a middle way between the laissez-faire multiculturalism favoured by successive British governments and the assimilationist politics of the French burkini ban."

He is right in the principle, but his examples highlight the confusion whenever anyone debates "multiculturalism": arguably "laissez-faire multi-culturalism" is what has happened in France: there, successive governments have adopted a "take it or leave it" approach to their native "culture". This has left other cultures largely ignored. "Assimiationist politics of the burka ban" is such a load of nonsense that I am amazed a clever man like Mr Umunna should utter it:
the burka ban in France applies to so few people that it hardly counts as "assimilationist" - it's just another part of the same approach outlined above. By comparison to countries like France the UK has done pretty well, but of course it is not enough, and his overall conclusion is correct I am sure

[Jackdaw33]

Given the way Labour elects its leaders, Umunna has as much chance of becoming the next one as I have.

[ichkeria]

If and hopefully when Corbyn shuffles off he is likely to take a lot of the carbet baggers with him.
Even Vladimir Ilyitch McCluskey is starting to go a bit wobbly :-)

[ToraToraTora]

I don't often agree with chukka kahn but he does seem to have grasped what seems ungraspable to Labour generally.

[hereIam]

Well said that man.

[Gromit]

Chuka Umunna is terrible. Hope he never becomes leader of anything.

[naomi24]

He's attempting to feather his own nest by saying what he thinks people want to hear. I wouldn't trust him - or any of them - an inch.

[Togo]

Lol @ 3T. Chukka khan.