Labour says it will up-skill UK workers to cut immigration. When?

And why bother? The use of workers from foreign countries has long been part of the UK’s economic system. They are cheap and allow indigenous people to take better-earning jobs. (And yes, that means it’s a racist policy. Did you not know?)

Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has said Labour would cut reliance on foreign workers in sectors including construction, IT, social care, health and engineering.

If it wins power, it will pass a new law to force different parts of the government to draw up skills improvement plans in high-migration sectors. It is not yet clear how these plans would be enforced.

This would reduce inward migration into the UK, she said.

And it might – but not immediately. Also, she has acknowledged that random issues – like the Covid pandemic and the decision to accept Ukrainian refugees – would affect annual migration figures, meaning any achievements in bringing it down may be hidden.

But why bother?

Immigration is only an issue because the Tories have been stoking racism in the UK for the past 14 years.

Tories keep power by “divide and rule” politics – they invent enemies, who are usually people of different ethnic backgrounds from white English people – and encourage us to demonise them.

The simple fact is that the UK has needed immigrant workers for longer than This Writer knows; they keep our system going.

And the fact that there are more of them in the UK now than before the European Union membership referendum proves that the xenophobia stoked by the likes of Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson in order to achieve Brexit for their funders was in the service of a pack of lies; leaving the EU has not stopped people from coming here to work.

Up-skilling workers is fine if it means they’ll be able to demand higher pay afterwards. But it won’t cut immigration in the short-term, and it is unlikely to do so in the long-term. You should not believe anybody suggesting it.

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