Patel’s Orwellian newspeak only highlights the Immigration Bill’s Tory racism
Smug: Priti Patel’s parents arrived in the UK when the country had a working immigration policy; under her new Bill, they would never have got in – because they’re foreign, don’t y’know?
“We’re ending free movement to open Britain up to the world”?
What utter, dribbling, gibbering stupidity!
Priti Patel means: “We’re closing the UK to anybody who isn’t rich.”
Skills don’t come into it.
That’s what the minimum income demand means.
An individual’s value to society won’t matter.
Just ask BAME workers at the NHS.
And it’s bare-faced hypocrisy from Patel, a daughter of immigrants:
If the kind of immigration restrictions and hurdles that Priti Patel is so keen on had been applied to her own parents, she probably wouldn’t be a Britsh citizen today, let alone the Home Secretary. https://t.co/67216wmiGy
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) May 18, 2020
The #ImmigrationBill is a missed opportunity.
We should be ending the #HostileEnvironment, not extending it. pic.twitter.com/rx0k6BwT8p
— Diane Abbott MP (@HackneyAbbott) May 19, 2020
Is there a special clap we can do on Thursdays to make it clear that we only value the NHS workers on more than £25,600-a-year? https://t.co/ii4DGMC8aT
— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) May 19, 2020
Tory 'hypocrites' clap for care workers while launching immigration crackdown – Mirror Online https://t.co/m1CHp4vS3l
— Samuel Miller (@Hephaestus7) May 18, 2020
Just voted against the Immigration Bill. It’s an ugly, flawed piece of Tory legislation. Determining someone’s value to the country by the salary they earn is wrong.
— Jo Stevens (@JoStevensLabour) May 18, 2020
Spot on Nick. In the midst of a pandemic – with hundreds of thousands of migrant key workers risking life and limb in low paid care home, NHS cleaning & food production jobs – the message from this Govt is clear: “You’re foreign. We don’t value you. “ https://t.co/qtITCkwCVA
— Clive Lewis MP (@labourlewis) May 18, 2020
Bereaved families of migrant NHS cleaners and porters locked out of Covid leave-to-remain scheme https://t.co/tvxiOEthbZ
— The Independent (@Independent) May 19, 2020
https://twitter.com/ToryFibs/status/1262459642514456578
What you’ve also done, @pritipatel , is to end freedom of movement for UK passport holders across our continent. The citizens of 27 other countries, the great majority of Europeans, still retain it. That’s not something to fly our flag over in my book. https://t.co/lCp8FTCQKi
— Brian Cox (@ProfBrianCox) May 18, 2020
Of course the Tories are already victimising migrant workers in the UK – they charge such workers £624 to use the NHS, even if they work for the NHS! Seriously!
UK government urged to scrap £624 NHS charge for migrant care workers https://t.co/mJJlFIGUt6
— The Guardian (@guardian) May 19, 2020
Every single MP who votes for this immigration bill and still claims to support the NHS is a complete hypocrite.
— Prof Paul Bernal (@PaulbernalUK) May 18, 2020
Government slammed over attack on key workers as MPs back Immigration Bill https://t.co/pjDLPjkzgI
— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) May 19, 2020
'On average, 35% of cleaners, 39% of logistics and wholesale workers, and 50% of workers in the food supply chain are migrants. They are literally helping keep the country running.' @timfarron on the immigration bill https://t.co/Ttr9XWDF0R
— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) May 19, 2020
Perhaps an effective way to present the message would be to show how Ms Patel’s message would come across if it was transferred to one of her other responsibilities:
We’re opening up all the prisons to make Britain a safer place for everyone. #PritiPatel
— Mr Ethical (@nw_nicholas) May 19, 2020
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The Brexiteers will be upset when they need visas and more passport checks for their Spanish holidays.