The result was - Delete - There is a clear consensus that the article is a synthesis of reports that create an article that is not encyclopedic - Peripitus (Talk) 03:00, 18 November 2009 (UTC) reply
The subject of this article does not exist – there is no such thing known as “Labour Party immigration scandal”. For a couple of days there were a couple of media reports picking up on a purported admission by a former no10 speechwriter about one small aspect of UK immigration policy. Briefly the topic fed into the usual political and media knockabout, which two days later moved on to something else, as usual. WP:NOT#NEWS, and WP:NOTABILITY (quote –“ it takes more than just a short burst of news reports about a single event or topic to constitute sufficient evidence of notability”) surely apply here. We do not need or deserve individual articles detailing every criticism of some aspect of every government’s policy or of a party’s policy platform. Nor do we need a running commentary on the cut and thrust of daily politics in every country.
The page exists, it would seem, simply to provide a platform for tabloid outrage and to push the views of editors who believe that the Labour government’s immigration policy is part of some nefarious conspiracy of some sort, contrary to WP:SOAP and WP:NPOV. Content has also been added to the page above and beyond anything to do with the original alleged “scandal”, eg the two sections here, presumably in a bid to push that view yet further. Those who questioned whether this brief minor spat needs a whole page to itself, as opposed to a brief passing mention in a wider encylopedic entry about immigration into the UK (such a page already exists), were told that the article is needed because “all the naive liberal-leftists have a hard time swallowing how disgracefully they have been violated and used for political gains by a corrupt political elite”, here, and that they were engaged in a “left wing attempt at a cover up job” and that this is “not the Soviet Union”, here. Yes, there are sources for most of the material, but that does not of itself confer notability, and of course they mostly reflect a couple of days of news reporting, primarily in tabloids such as the Daily Mail and Daily Express. Nickhh ( talk) 16:59, 10 November 2009 (UTC) reply
When Neather read some of the comments about his original article, he wrote a second in which he complained that his meaning had been distorted and that "there was no plot" to make Britain multicultural; the main goal of migration policy was to solve skills shortages. This second article is not referred to at all. ("How I became the story and why the Right is wrong", Evening Standard, 26 October 2009, p. 15.)
It may be contended that, if these POV problems are ironed out and a firm NPOV razor applied to the article, and it is moved to a neutral title (it is not by any reasonable terms a 'scandal'), that it might become acceptable. Unfortunately I do not think so. Migration policy is a continuous stream rather than a series of atomised policies. The events described in this article can fit better if integrated in the text of Immigration to the United Kingdom since 1922 but they need to be rewritten from scratch rather than starting with anything in this article. Sam Blacketer ( talk) 20:27, 10 November 2009 (UTC) reply