Famed Rocker Slams Liberal Immigration Policy: 'I Will Never Forgive Them

The Who frontman Roger Daltrey has slammed the British Labor Party for its lax immigration policy which he says “destroyed the jobs of my mates."

In a candid interview published this weekend in The Sunday Times magazine, Daltrey said he would never forgive the party which he used to support for welcoming the influx of immigrants, a policy he blames for the unemployment among Britain’s working class.

"I will never, ever forgive the Labor Party for allowing this mass immigration with no demands put on what people should be paid when they come to this country. I will never forgive them for destroying the jobs of my mates, because they allowed their jobs to be undercut with stupid thinking on Europe, letting them all in, so they can live 10 to a room, working for Polish wages,” Daltrey told the Sunday Times.

The Who frontman Roger Daltrey blasted liberal immigration policy for "destroying" his friends' jobs. (Getty Images/Rick Diamond)

“I've got nothing against the Poles at all, but that was a political mistake and it made me very angry. And the people who get it in the neck are the immigrants, and it's not their fault," he said according to The Daily Telegraph.

The vocalist and songwriter laid blame not only on the Labor Party, but also the European Union as a whole for its “detrimental” bureaucracy which he said he “can’t stand.”

The United Kingdom joined the European Union when it was established in 1993, but opted out of adopting the euro as its currency, with British public opinion firmly against abandoning the pound sterling. Joining the E.U. meant citizens of other member countries willing to accept lower wages could enter Britain to legally work.

Daltrey has previously expressed his opinion on immigration policy. According to the Daily Mail, Daltrey in 2011 said the last government left “the British working man screwed like he’d never been screwed before.”

Besides immigration policy, Daltrey also offered his opinion on the negative effects of Twitter and modern technology overall which he believes has taken the joy out of life.

“I find it really worrying that politicians tweet. That really worries the f*** out of me,” he said. “They should be sitting there thinking about doing a good job rather than telling us what they had for breakfast or what color suit they're wearing."

The Sunday Times interviewer described the 69-year-old’s cellphone as “a Nokia from the Jurassic pre-predictive text era, the sort, he happily admits, you’d see on the Antiques Roadshow.”

Despite the advances in modern technology, “we're just busy doing nothing now,” Daltrey lamented. “We've got no time to contemplate, no time to dream.”

(H/T: The Daily Telegraph)

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