Going Full Enoch
by Rab Bruce’s Spider Mastodon: @RabBrucesSpider1@Mastodon.Scot BlueSky: @RabBrucesSpider.Bsky.Social Sir Keir (Knight of the Realm) starmer seems to have gone full Enoch Powell with his latest xenophobic pronouncements. As usual, he has got completely the wrong end of the stick when it comes to finding solutions for the UK’s perceived problem with immigration. For starters, immigration is good, but if you are going to claim that foreign workers are undercutting UK workers, the best solution would be to ensure that the types of jobs British subjects (not citizens) won’t do are far better paid. That might attract more people to do these jobs. Even then, we’d still need immigration to keep our social services operating, although Labour seem to have moved so far to the right that public services are used more as a dog-whistle slogan than as something to be maintained. As far as I can see, all Starmer is doing is telling the voting public that Nig...