Now we have Phil Woolas saying that immigration has been allowed to grow so high that the BNP is picking up votes ; Hazel Blears has discovered that political correctness has gone too far ; Jack Straw has accepted that sharing people 's private data across Whitehall might not be a good thing ; David Blunkett , of all people , has voiced his concerns about too much surveillance ; and sundry ministers have tut-tutted about the amounts of red tape and regulation that businesses and charities have to cope with , as though these were imposed by some outside force .