"my Dad. 90 next year. Fled Poland to escape the comunist Russia. Didn't stop him, or me for that matter, being a lifelong working class and active Trade Unionist."

Good for him, and for you too Dave. Though I gather from your post that your father was a refugee fleeing an oppressive regime rather than an economic migrant taking advantage of better employment opportunities abroad. As such, are you are making some link between his particular flight from tyranny and recent mass economic immigration? Or just using the example of the failed Russian Communist state to belittle my (admittedly somewhat tongue in cheek) attempt at advocacy for seeing some (as opposed to none) political interest in the welfare and interests of the working-classes of this country?

This is a difficult forum to express the kinds of opinions I have expressed, and not because I am a Daily Mail reader, but because I recognise from personal interaction, a deep disconnect between the middle-income & middle-class liberal left and the low-income working class who having been entirely abandoned by New Labour are increasingly responding to the seductions of the far right.

Now, we can either shout at these people and call them "Racists" or we can actually take their problems seriously. You might not be one of them, but I suspect that most members of this forum would be inclined to do the former, maybe even after a good quality whiskey or three (no ice).