The 1966 Sample Census (on which all British figures in this article are based) showed 403, 450 Irish-born in the Greater London Council area and 57,000 in the West Midlands conurbation, against only 20,200 in the Merseyside and 22,990 in the Clydeside conurbations. Only the South-east Lancashire conurbation (52,370) is still attracting Irish immigrants to a 'historic' Irish area. Of course these figures exclude 'second generation Irish' who are likely to be more politically influential. 10 per cent Sample Census of England and Wales, 1966 (London, H.M.S.O., 1967).
2.
See 1961 Census of England and Wales: Commonwealth Immigrants in the Conurbations (London, H.M.S.O. , 1965),
3.
and J. Zubrzycki, Immigrants in Australia (Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1960).
4.
See P.Y. Medding, From Assimilation to Group Survival (Melbourne, Cheshire, 1967),
5.
for Melbourne Jewry, and J. Gould and S. Esh, Jewish Life in Modern Britain (London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1964).
6.
For a brief reference to the political views of Polish and other East European post-war settlers in Britain see London—Aspects of Change (London, McGibbon and Kee, 1964), p. 325.
7.
For comparisons of the voting support of British, Australian, American and Canadian parties see R.R. Alford, Party and Society (London, Murray, 1964).
8.
For party programmes and organisation in Australia see J. Jupp, Australian Party Politics (Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1964).
9.
See W.G. Runciman, Relative Deprivation and Social Justice (California, University of California Press, 1966), pp. 165-6, suggesting that self-perception of manual workers as 'middle-class' is most pronounced in the Midlands.
10.
Sheila Patterson, Dark Strangers ( Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1965) p. 19.
For a discussion of attempts to organise immigrant voters in Australia see J. Jupp , Arrivals and Departures ( Melbourne, Cheshire-Lansdowne, 1966 ) Chapter Five.
13.
See also N. Deakin (ed.), Colour and the British Electorate 1964 ( London, Pall Mall Press, 1965).
14.
Graham Thomas, 'The Council Election in Southall—May 1968' in Institute of Race Relations'News Letter (July 1968).
15.
In the 1965 and 1967 municipal elections in the Melbourne city of Fitzroy, where over 40 per cent of the population were born outside Australia, Greek independents were returned against official Labor nominees. There seems to be no British, nor other Australian, parallel. For attempts by immigrants to secure municipal election in Bradford see Chapter Seven by Maurice Spiers in Colour and the British Electorate 1964 pp. 120-56.
16.
For an attempt to correlate voting patterns with immigrant concentration in Melbourne see Charles A. McCoy, 'Australian Democratic Labor Party Support' in Journal of Commonwealth Political Studies, Vol. III, no. 3 (November 1965), pp. 199-208.
17.
The failure of the Wolverhampton bus branch of the Transport and General Workers' Union to support the campaign of its Sikh members for retention of their turbans, is the latest in a long line of similar failures by unions to stand up for their immigrant members. See also P.E.P., op. cit., pp. 132-40.
18.
For an outline of the current position see 'Who's Who in Race' in Observer (3 March 1968 ).
19.
Guardian (25 July 1967).
20.
See especially W. Kornhauser, The Politics of Mass Society (London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1960);
21.
N.J. Smelser, Theory of Collective Behaviour (London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962); and
22.
W. Record, Race and Radicalism (Cornell University Press, 1964).
