You Can't Talk About Immigration? 8 Moments That Show You Can

'We Can't Talk About Immigration'? Here Are 8 Moments That Show You CAN

Immigration is a topic you cannot discuss without being shouted down as a racist, some say.

The audience member told panellists that "we are in a minority" who get "nothing", insisting: "We've been tarnished, we're not all racist..."

His criticism echoes what Prime Minister David Cameron said in March 2013 when he attacked "those who say you can't have a sensible debate because it’s somehow wrong to express concerns about immigration."

So is it really true that we can't talk about immigration? That it's a taboo issue?

Here are 8 big moments, since the last Labour government came to office in 1997, in which all we seemed to do was discuss how supposedly awful immigration is.

Blair fretted about "genuine" refugees

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