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Hugh Muir on politics and immigration
My day so far: an eastern European guy picks me up in a minicab and takes me to Londons Victoria station, where more eastern European people sell me a cappuccino. Two black British men check my ticket at the barrier and a Sikh guard is on the platform. The train to Gatwick is full of foreigners.
Last month, a Ukip organiser on Humberside complained to me that we are not even allowed to use the word foreigners any more. Clearly thats not true, as Ive just used it here, but it probably wouldnt have been my word of choice. It feels more like terminology from the past, like labour exchange or wireless used to describe a radio.
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