Home Office ramps up its hostile environment
JVL Introduction
As we learn that Children seeking asylum were ‘kidnapped from Home Office hotels’ the government has decided to ramp up its punitive hounding of migrant workers already in highly precarious circumstances.
Failed policies which simply put such workers at increased risk of abuse, are being dredged up in a vengeful return to utterly discredited Windrush-day polices.
AS Jacqueline McKenzie who represented many of the original Windrush victims said: “The hostile environment never really went away… this is not the time for the government to be reinstating the very systems and policies which have been thoroughly discredited.”
This article was originally published by the Guardian on Sun 22 Jan 2023. Read the original here.
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Migrant workers, aka economic migrants aka cheap labour are usually not or journalists nor teachers nor solicitors, they are usually male & unskilled. Jaqueline McKenzie (partner at law firm Leigh Day) states “….the gov’t is peddling the idea that migrants are stealing the jobs of British people, but have not offered any evidence or data to support their claim”. This is a class issue & in poor working class areas it is a self evident truth that only a low skill casual labour gig economy exists……if you want proof, go live in these areas & see the ‘black’ economy at work where no official statisics can exist.
The Guardian is a ‘Liberal’ newspaper & has always had contempt for the white working class, representing the ideologies of the comfortable bourgeoisie, so it is not surprising that it now quotes that great Socialist MP Stephen Kinnock to support their argument but the greatest falsehood is the assertion by Daniel Sohege that “the irony being the immigration is essential in resolving the very issues, such as staffing shortages…….” Why does this not lead to a massive rise in wages but only the stock exchange is booming? The promise of cheap labour is most appealling to all 3 major political parties who all support re-entry into the European Union & believe that the working classes were too ignorant to vote the right way in the referendum. Social mobility was the goal of education in the ’60s but now the universities make their money via foreign students & the NHS depends on overseas staff. Why should employers invest in British people, when they can cherry pick abroad? Print that if you believe in Freedom of Speech!