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Is this how Keir Starmer wants to stop you getting the wages you deserve?

Keir Starmer: he likes to give speeches in industrial settings, claiming to be on the side of workers. But is he actually betraying them by giving employers a way of keep wages low?

The Tories have found a new angle from which to attack Keir Starmer today, claiming he will allow around 100,000 migrants into the UK in return for restoration of a “returns” scheme that would send back those arriving in the UK by non-approved routes.

Here’s Greg Hands:

And here’s Robert Jenrick:

Presumably they’re all at it but I’ve only seen these.

The claim that Starmer is somehow betraying the UK by seeking to negotiate a solution to the channel boat question is undoubtedly good for the Tories. But it is completely daft.

The UK used to have a “returns” policy along the lines suggested by the stories in the Torygraph and Hate Mail but the Tories under Boris Johnson ditched it as part of their childish Brexit. It had worked very well in keeping down the number of people seeking asylum in the UK from abroad.

Not only that, but it has to be remembered that there would not be as many people coming here if the UK had not engaged in numerous adventures in foreign countries that displaced these people in the first place. Whether because of that or domestic issues, they come because they no longer feel safe in their home countries. The solution to that is negotiation with the governments of those countries to restore them to stability.

And it would put a stop to the “criminal gangs” who exploit the people trying to cross the channel into the UK, more effectively than anything the Tories are doing.

So Starmer’s ideas are not beyond reason, as these Tories are painting them.

They are unacceptable to UK employees, though – and here’s the reason.

The country’s labour market is currently stretched to its limit; there simply aren’t enough jobseekers to fill the vacancies available to them. This is partly due to Brexit and the departure of many foreign-born workers back to the European Union.

In such a situation, employees have a stronger hand when negotiating pay deals. If evidence that average pay has increased by 8.5 per cent in the year to summer 2023 is accurate, then someone has been taking advantage of this.

Employers don’t like it. It cuts into their profits (which have been enormous in some cases but they still want it all for themselves).

The Tories have suggested that they would push sick and disabled people to seek jobs, by making the Work Capability Assessment they must take to receive benefits more difficult. The aim is to force a million people onto the jobs market, even though they are actually too infirm to work.

Starmer’s suggested deal with the EU would bring in at least 100,000 people – initially. And they all have to make a living for themselves.

It seems to This Writer that Starmer wants to undercut UK workers’ wage demands by ensuring employers have access to cheap labour from abroad. This is how he is betraying the UK today.

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Deporting people from foreign countries is not new – but it shows we are regressing

The Empire Windrush: the people brought to the UK on this ship in 1948, the Chinese deported back to that country two years before, and Afghan asylum-seekers who face death trying to cross the English Channel are all victims of the same primitive racism.

It’s always sad to see proof that a country is evolving backwards – especially when that country is your own.

That’s exactly what This Writer saw, watching an old BBC documentary series called Mixed Britannia.

It showed me that the current fervour for shipping people of foreign extraction who have been re-defined (take careful note of that: re-defined) as “undesirables” out of the UK (destination: anywhere) is a regression to the attitudes of more primitive times.

In the series, the late George Alagiah relates what he describes as the “shameful” episode in which people who were originally from China but had settled in Liverpool, some having married local women, were separated from their families in a night-time raid, thrown onto a ship and sent directly back to their country of origin.

Their labour had previously been welcomed but then it was considered no longer to be needed and racist law-makers dispensed with their services, with extreme prejudice.

Their wives and children were not told the truth about what had happened; they were left to believe they had been deserted by their husbands.

This happened under the otherwise-progressive Labour government of Clement Attlee; it should perhaps serve as a warning to us all that we should be careful not to view history through rose-tinted glasses, or any other distorting prism.

Mr Alagiah went on to show how attitudes had improved over the decades leading to 2011, when Mixed Britannia was made.

Hindsight renders it ironic that he referred to the arrival of the Empire Windrush, packed with passengers from the West Indies who had been promised UK citizenship in return for their help in rebuilding our then-war-torn nation, as a great step forward that happened only a few years later.

Today, the Windrush Scandal is one of the deepest scars on the face of the Conservative administration of 2010 onwards; documentation proving the right of the Windrush generation to live in the UK was deliberately destroyed and people who’d had every right to believe they were UK citizens were forced through a deportation process that was entirely unwarranted, unfair, and illegal. The Tories have yet to make full restitution to those they wronged.

Today we live overlooking the river of blood (to adopt a phrase) that used to be the English Channel – where refugees and asylum-seekers place their lives in the hands of criminal gangs because they have no safe, legal route to claim asylum in the UK; the Tories have closed them all off and say anybody trying to make the crossing is coming here illegally.

Does that include people from Afghanistan who worked as employees of the UK government and its forces there for 20 years after the post- 911 invasion, as implied by this social media post about the people who died or were rescued in the tragedy that happened on August 12:

“Their labour had previously been welcomed but then it was considered no longer to be needed and racist law-makers dispensed with their services, with extreme prejudice.”

It fits, doesn’t it?

Remember: The current Conservative government has deliberately dismantled the UK’s immigration and asylum system in order to make it impossible to properly process people coming to these shores to claim asylum.

They have done this in order to fool you into thinking that our borders are being overrun by foreigners who have no reason to come here.

They believe they need to put a fake enemy in front of you because otherwise you will realise that the only real enemy you have is the current Conservative government.

At the time of writing, Mixed Britannia may be viewed via the BBC iPlayer here.

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How many more will die before the Tories reopen safe, legal asylum routes?

Channel migrants: this photo is obviously not of anything that happened today (August 12, 2023) – but Tory policies are putting people like this in danger every day.

Another day, another Tory tragedy. Six people have died in the Channel – and it could be argued that the Conservative government caused the deaths.

Here’s the story:

There’s a lot of right-wing lunacy circulating on the social media. Never mind that. There’s only one question to be asked and it is this:

How many people would have died today if there was a safe, legal route for people to claim asylum in the United Kingdom?

I think you know the answer is none.

Not only that, but there would be no criminal gangs making money from suffering like we’ve seen today, because there would be no demand for them to help people get across the water.

So these words by Suella Braverman…

… are meaningless.

Bear the following in mind also:

It is Conservative policy for the crossings to continue, for the criminal gangs to make money from the people on the boats, and for some of them to die.

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Why pay more to send migrants to Rwanda if that deterrent goes unreported?

Deterred? If these Channel-crossing migrants don’t know what’s likely to happen to them when they get to the UK, why would they turn back?

The government has admitted it costs more to send migrants who come into the UK by small boats to Rwanda than to keep them here – but wants to maintain the policy as a deterrent.

There’s just one problem:

Do the people coming across the channel in small boats even know that they face that fate?

Nobody seems to ask that question.

These are people who spend weeks or months travelling across the continent – or several. Did they stop to watch TV, listen to the radio, or read the newspapers before deciding to go?

And would those media – in their home countries – even have carried the relevant announcements?

It may well be arrogance to believe that.

But read this:

An economic impact assessment of the Illegal Migration Bill, which is going through Parliament, found a gross cost of £169,000 to relocate an individual.

But the estimated £106,000 spent on housing support if they remained in the UK would be avoided.

The Home Office assessment said no cost would be incurred if an individual was deterred from entering the UK illegally.

However, it said it was “uncertain” what level of deterrence impact the policy would have because the bill was “novel and untested”.

The report estimates the policy would need to deter 37% of people from entering the UK illegally for there to be no cost to the taxpayer.

And, so far, more people have been detected crossing the Channel in boats this year than in any other recent year.

It seems this Tory plan is built on hot air and fantasy.

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Rishi Sunak hasn’t only failed to beat inflation – his other pledges are broken as well

Rishi Sunak and his priorities: he hasn’t achieved a single one.

Yesterday (Wednesday, June 21, 2023) was not a good day to be Rishi Sunak.

Neither was Monday – but that’s another story.

We knew he failed on inflation because it’s the big headline.

But what about his other targets?

The UK’s debt pile, meanwhile, reached more than 100 per cent of economic output for the first time since 1961 as government borrowing more than doubled in May, according to official figures.

So it did:

It shows up the lie in George Osborne’s evidence to the Covid Inquiry this week, too: Osborne claimed he had needed to repair the “seriously impaired public finances”.

He said: “If we had not had a clear plan to put the public finances on a sustainable path then Britain might have experienced a fiscal crisis, we would not have had the fiscal space to deal with the coronavirus pandemic when it hit,” he said.

But when he became Chancellor in May 2010, the UK’s national debt stood at £1.03 trillion. He promised to eliminate it altogether (which is kindergarten economics; the debt is merely a yardstick of private investment in the UK’s economy) – and today’s figures show the extent of his massive failure.

Okay, how about the small boat Channel crossings?

On Sunday, it was revealed that more than 1,100 people had arrived on small boats in the past three days.

The cumulative number of arrivals in 2023 now stands at a provisional total of 10,472, according to the latest data from the Home Office.

We already know NHS waiting lists are not falling (because health service funding is being siphoned off by private health firms as profit?) and intelligent commentators say the Bank of England’s expected response to the inflation figures will stifle economic growth by sucking all the spare money out of the system.

This is what happens when you let Conservatives get their hands on the workings of government: they clown around like the idiots they are until everything breaks down.

Source: Sunak’s five pledges lie in tatters ahead of next election

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Home Office admits it made up claim that refugees are ‘economic migrants’

Priti Patel: when she was Home Secretary, she said Channel refugees were economic migrants and tried to stop the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) from saving them.

The Home Office has admitted it doesn’t have a scrap of evidence to support a long-standing claim that 70 per cent of people crossing the English Channel are “economic migrants”.

Here’s The Guardian:

As home secretary in 2021, Priti Patel told parliament that “70% of individuals on small boats are single men who are effectively economic migrants”. In December last year, with the number of boat arrivals continuing to increase, her successor, Suella Braverman, backed the assertion, saying to MPs: “There is considerable evidence that people are coming here as economic migrants, illegally.”

However, when asked via a Freedom of Information request for evidence to support Patel’s claim, the Home Office admitted it had none. Its response – dated 20 March 2023, a year after the request was sent – states: “We have carried out a thorough search and we have established that the Home Office does not hold the information requested.” But the former home secretary’s statement appears not to have been corrected.

Human rights groups say such claims help create a false narrative that individuals arriving by boat are not genuine asylum seekers so are less deserving of sympathy.

The Home Office’s own data confirms that most of the people who reached the UK by small boat in 2022 – at least six in 10 – would be recognised as refugees. Despite this, the British government has closed or severely restricted most safe routes to the UK, leaving people with no choice but to risk the Channel crossing.

Now, why would Tory ministers fabricate a lie that refugees are economic migrants?

Richard Murphy has an inkling:

I think he has a point. Don’t you?

Source: Home Office admits no evidence to support key claim on small boat crossings | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian

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Look who’s opposing this plan to house asylum-seekers on a barge

Richard Drax: his ancestors transported slaves to the Caribbean in cramped, unhygienic ships. Now he is opposing a similar (albeit somewhat more comfortable) scheme for asylum-seekers.

When a Conservative MP whose family were pioneers of the slave trade opposes a plan to house foreign asylum-seekers on a “completely inadequate” barge, his colleagues in government ought to take notice.

They won’t, of course.

Richard Drax’s ancestors ran sugar plantations based on slave labour, in Barbados and Jamaica, until the British Parliament banned slavery in 1833. The slaves had been transported from Africa on ships where conditions were appallingly cramped, unhygienic and inhumane.

Now, single men who have already suffered to get to the UK are set to be billeted on the 222-berth barge Bibby Stockholm while they wait for their asylum claims to be processed. It is expected to be in use for 18 months.

It will be moored in Portland Port, near Weymouth, and is said to have been refurbished since the Dutch government used it for the same purpose, when it was described as an “oppressive environment.”

Drax’s constituency includes Portland, so the reason he doesn’t want this seems clear (Not In My Back Yard-ism).

According to the BBC,

he was “very concerned” about the impact on the area which “relies on small businesses”.

That being said, the mere fact of him opposing this should carry some weight.

The plan has been touted as a way to get asylum-seekers out of hotels where their accommodation has been costing the government more than £6 million per day and angering local residents.

But Labour has said it is

“in addition to hotels, not instead of them, and is still more than twice as expensive as normal asylum accommodation”.

So whichever way you slice it, the evidence in support of this new scheme is wafer-thin.

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Gary Lineker was right; Tory rhetoric is EXACTLY like that of 1930s Germany

Watch this brilliance from Jonathan Pie:

“Nazi Germany rhetoric demeaned, otherised and dehumanised people, made them the enemy and the scapegoat of all its woes, and attacked anybody who said differently as enemies of the people.”

That’s just what Suella Braverman has been doing, of course.

And neither she nor any other Tory is telling you that asylum applications – including those from the “small boat” Channel migrants – are about half what they were 20 years ago, yet the number of asylum applications processed within six months has fallen from around 90 per cent to just four per cent, under Tory administration.

It’s typical Tory cack-handedness; they created the problem and their answer to it is a three-word slogan. It’s Covid-19 all over again.

And Pie’s explosion at Braverman daring to lecture us about British values is well worth the four minutes of your time it takes to watch this, on its own.

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Reality check (something for the weekend)

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The image says it all.

While the people of the UK point out that raw sewage is being pumped into our waterways, the UK has the poorest economy of all G7 countries, Brexit is a disaster, supermarket shelves are empty, people can’t pay their energy bills, the NHS is in crisis and everyone is on strike…

… all Rishi Sunak and his gang can say is, “Stop the boats.”

Pathetic. Miserable. Unacceptable.

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The Tory plan for Channel migrants is nothing but hate speech, and here’s the evidence

Hate speech: Suella Braverman.

The Conservative government’s latest plan to deal with people crossing the Channel in small boats to claim asylum in the UK is not what it seems – according to the evidence.

Instead, it seems Suella Braverman are simply trying to stir up hate against Johnny and Jane Foreigner to distract attention from their own shortcomings – one of which is that it is a failing in the Tory Brexit deal that has made it possible for illegal immigrants to stay here as long as they have.

Look at – and listen to – this propaganda clip from Suella Braverman:

You can hear the hate speech: the people who she acknowledges are risking their lives to get here are trying to “jump the queue” and “game our system”, and this is “not fair”. These are all words that are carefully chosen – and they are all words that are likely to increase hatred against asylum-seekers.

Remember, these are people who are currently being accommodated in local hotels across the UK, much to the disgust of many local residents who are already well on the way to a life of xenophobic rage.

And she again uses the nonsense argument that people are travelling through safe countries where they should settle instead of here. They’re coming here for a reason – because of the UK’s imperial past, because they have family here, because of the language, or because of another connection; their reasons for being here are valid.

Before we go further, let’s have a bit of balance from Labour MP John McDonnell:

Now it’s time for a reality check: the planned new law is unlikely even to come into law, let alone be put into practice before the next general election. Therefore we may assume that it is motivated by something other than what we’re being told. Here’s Richard Murphy:

Finally – and above all – we should remember that this is a problem entirely of the Conservative government’s own making.

Did you catch the really damning statistics in that clip?

The Labour government – that was in power before the Conservatives slithered their way back into Downing Street in 2010 – was sending 60,000 illegal migrants back to their home countries per year. It could do this because it had a “returns” agreement with the European Union.

Now, the Tory government struggles to send 3,000 people back. This is because it doesn’t have an agreement with the EU; Boris Johnson tore it up when he foisted his daft Brexit Agreement on us and them, and countries like France and Germany won’t sign an individual deal with the UK.

Looking at it dispassionately, it is hard to believe that the Tories did not create this situation deliberately, in order to give the people of the United Kingdom somebody to hate – who isn’t a Tory.

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