Going Full Enoch

by Rab Bruce’s Spider

 

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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 Nigel Farage is right. And if many of those voters either support fascism or can’t recognise it when they see it, they will probably vote directly for Farage’s Limited Company than for any pale tribute act.

 

In my view, Starmer has once again shown himself to be politically inept, and his Anglo-centric view of the world has again been confirmed by his assertion that anyone wishing to move to the UK must speak English. Not only is that a grave insult to speakers of Welsh, Cornish, Gaelic and Scots, he seems completely unaware of the irony of what would happen if other countries placed a reciprocal imposition on UK subjects (not citizens) who want to move abroad. How many Ex Pats (not immigrants because they are British, don’t you know) speak the language of the country they want to move to?

 

It seems Farage has now dragged the whole of English politics so far to the right that there is no escape. Unless you happen to be a sovereign nation who wants to become a normal, self-governing country. The sooner the Scottish Government gets its act together and gets us out of this dystopian Union, the better.

 

  

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