Emeritus Prof Christopher May on Nostr: Kenan Malik on #immigration: 'If the government wanted to reduce the numbers of ...
Kenan Malik on #immigration:
'If the government wanted to reduce the numbers of foreign workers, it could easily do so by increasing spending on social care to help raise scandalously low wages. That it refuses to do. It is the government that is undercutting the living standards of British workers – and then it has audacity to pin the blame on immigrants'!
and this is before we discuss their complicity in the push factors driving #migrants out of their counties!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/10/the-wests-dumping-of-migrants-on-poor-countries-is-a-grisly-echo-of-penal-transportation
'If the government wanted to reduce the numbers of foreign workers, it could easily do so by increasing spending on social care to help raise scandalously low wages. That it refuses to do. It is the government that is undercutting the living standards of British workers – and then it has audacity to pin the blame on immigrants'!
and this is before we discuss their complicity in the push factors driving #migrants out of their counties!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/10/the-wests-dumping-of-migrants-on-poor-countries-is-a-grisly-echo-of-penal-transportation