Junior Ministers’ realisation that unrestricted immigration is bad for the poor represents a dangerous revival of Old Labour principles, and we therefore shouldn’t expect the Ministers in question to last much longer.
There cannot be a "free" market in goods, services and capital but not in labour, or vice versa. Artificially exaggerated competition for jobs drives down wages and working conditions. An entirely new working class is being imported in order to replace the old one, with its tiresome unions, minimum wages, health and safety regulations, and such like. The new one will understand no English except commands, and, having no allegiance to any particular locality in this country, will be able to be moved around at will. Nor, unlike the West Indians in particular (or, indeed, my own Saint Helenians), will they be admirers of traditional British culture and institutions.
That is what those who pay for New Labour (in all its pretended distinct guises) are paying for. And that is what they are getting.
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