Life Savers, Go Home!

Anybody who's ever cried into their beer that "there's just too many immigrants" and we need to "send 'em packing", be careful what you wish for, because it might be about to come true. 


Not content with coming after our unsocial hours payments (and making it practically illegal to strike to defend them) the new, emboldened Tory Government wants to deport about 30,000 colleagues. It's not like we're short staffed or anything. 

You Can't Just Ask People Why They're Not From the European Economic Area.

Under the new rules, anyone who's not European, earning less than £35k and been here longer than 6 years will be out. Never mind if you save lives every day, we don't want your sort round 'ere. 

Unless you're some old Greek bloke who doesn't contribute, leeches off the taxpayer and is generally a bit of a racist about the place. Then you're fine. 

We'll Never Be Royals

Sending away foreign nurses won't mean more British ones. In fact, 37,000 wannabe student nurses were turned down last year due to course cuts. But why let the truth get in the way of a good yarn? 

Jamie is British. Becky is American. Erin is just all kinds of cute. 

The new rules will tear families, communities and services apart.  They won't actually produce a significant reduction in net migration, but that's not what these rules are about. They're about scapegoating immigrants as part of a propaganda offensive to normalise continued austerity. 




At the weekend, I and around a quarter of a million of my close personal friends marched in protest against the austerity offensive. It would be naive to think  we could just turn up and demand the representatives of global capitalism quit making working class people pay for their mistakes. 

Unlikely.

It all seems pretty overwhelming now, but so was standing up for the rights of gay people once upon a time. 



Besides, what choice do we have? Capitalism has become a dirty word. As Hayley Cropper put it:

I'll be honest, I had to google the word "anachronism". 

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