A polity must have control of its borders and of migration. Free movement of labour and low wage competition is a bosses agenda and no form of workers solidarity should have anything to do with it. To then bless this with the moral license of multi-culturalism is to add idiocy to naivety.

Glasman privileges a politics of collective action over a legal order of individual rights and this makes it hard for many left-liberals to fit him into the political spectrum. Furthermore, English political culture lacks a common vocabulary for talking about race, class and religion in political terms (our history is one of bitter struggle to de-politicise these) and Glasman has been insensitive to this cultural context. That is unfortunate because he and Blue Labour are trying to speak about things new Labour was embarrassed by: ethics, class and the British socialist tradition.

Glasman’s critique of the commodity does not originate with Polanyi, and it predates socialism. The critique of the commodity first appeared in the West as a critique of the idolatry of money; a critique of the belief that money can produce things of itself, and thus in particular a critique of usury (and it is worth noting that one of Glasman’s campaigns with London Citizens was for a cap on interest). That critique can be found in Aristotle (one of Glasman’s common reference points). Aristotle wrote of wealth creation that "The most hated sort and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself and not from the natural object of it”. This criticism overlaps with a religiously inspired critique of the belief that money can create something out of nothing (a power reserved only for divinity). Or, as Glasman puts it, “the pressure of commodification violates a fundamental notion of the sacred common to all the Abrahamic faiths concerning the integrity of the human being, the divine status of nature and the limits of money…”.

Someone who's committed 15 previous offences without a custodial sentenced ever imposed, who then commits a 16th after coming out of prison is supposed to prove that prison doesn't work?

I reckon the Trots will soon re-classify the endangered toffs as a scheduled, ethno-cultural group. Let’s give em tax exempt schools and ensure their bizarre little beliefs (fox hunting, the British empire, Christianity, Kate Middleton) are granted official ‘respect.’ Hang on, it’s already happened!
‘Toffophobia watch’ to follow?

Some general pointers - 'diversity' in the context of political correctness means the abolition of the nation state with it's unique ethnic/cultural identity and traditions, and it's replacement with something closely resembling an airport, where people from all over the world are jumbled together, each group having little in common with the other (often not even being able to communicate with one another). It means taking a step towards a managed global state, where the human race is reduced to cattle for the benefit of the elite.

Human Rights law is actually based on existing English law, but it is easier to use because English rights, which grew up higgledy piggledy but are a world wonder, are like our Constitution - not written down on 10 sides of A4 or whatever.