[YeGoblynQueenne]

>> Like the Democrats in the US, they wanted immigrants from all over to change the political landscape and keep them in power. Regardless of native population.

You're being downvoted to unreadability anyway, but I feel I should clarify this just for the sake of people who are unaware of it: immigrants to the UK don't get a vote in parliamentary elections and therefore Blair's Labour could bring in the entire population of Asia, he still wouldn't have got a single vote out of them.

And he couldn't have just given them all British citizenship either: in general one needs to have residence before being elligible for citizenship.

Residency is obtained automatically after five years of living in the UK (if you can prove it anyway). Parliamentary elections happen every four years. We now have a Tory government, the second after ten ish years of Labour. Clearly, if Blair had a cunning plan it wasn't cunning enough.

And even if the numbers don't move you, think of it this way: if immigrants had any say in the governing of the UK, the country would not have just jumped off a cliff with a weight tied around its neck (a.k.a. Brexit).

[KaiserPro]

Just to make even clearer, residents cannot vote in general elections, unless they are from the commonwealth.