"addicted to hiring cheap Labour" okay great looking forward to the white paper about reforming the funding of social care, and the tax rises necessary to pay for it
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A lot of industries could be weaned off "cheap labour" by sustained investment in automation and robotics - but with the best will in the world, social care is really not one of them
The entities addicted to cheap labour are local authorities commissioning social care who don’t have funds to pay more. And their budgets are decided by…
It's all they can do. Streeting was doing the rounds last year saying "we'll end up with an NHS with a government on the side". Kate Andrews has been saying that exact line on behalf of the IEA for a decade.
“Island of strangers” is a chilling phrase. It frames people as threats, not neighbours. Britain’s strength lies in its diversity and openness, not in fear and exclusion. Integration needs support, not suspicion. We need unity, not division cloaked in nationalism.
The Labour Party is a party of people who shudder when they see black and brown people walking down the high street. The word ‘squalid’ was used deliberately
It’s the straight opposite of this island’s entire history, which has always benefitted from being a melting pot of people coming together. It others anyone who isn’t “British”, whatever the fuck that means. This is at least as bad as May.
May as well have come from the camp of the saints. Shocking rhetoric to imply that migrants (and their descendants) are forever strangers in some mythical Albion.
I give up on this party. If they’re not going to use the biggest majority they’re ever likely to get to do some progressive things, then what is the fucking point? No one voted for continuity with the Cameron government.
I agree, but the immigration debate is so heated and poisonous that I think they need to show they're Doing Something even if it's reactionary and ill thought out.
If they've any sense they'll tie this to the drop in immigration and then deal with the practicalities when it's calmed down a bit.
That's the problem. The voters they're chasing want no immigration, not just the disgusting rhetoric. They don't want "practicalities dealt with". They hate immigrants and want rid of them, and want a govt that also hates immigrants, that confirms that it's okay, indeed rational, to hate immigrants.
Well then they will never be satisfied with what Labour offer, and neither will the *actual current fucking labour voters* tolerate it. In case the galaxy brains in No10 haven't noticed, we are already leaving in droves. This is repugnant policy, but it's also really, really stupid politics.
They are so arrogant they don't think they will actually need to get to that bit. They think they will be able to sneak visas for care workers while communicating the opposite. Clearly they're terrified of fixing social care, because they'd have to look at the explosion in housing equity to fund it.
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Cause I'm pretty sure it's not making them feel valued.
Hell of a way to say thanks for helping with a sometimes literally shitty situation - and potentially making shortages worse.
https://bsky.app/profile/jdportes.bsky.social/post/3loxh74sdfk2h
I could’ve sworn we had a minimum wage.
*Those* jobs pay the same, regardless of nationality, so I cannot understand why they use it as a stick with which to beat migrants.
We’re already watching that film—just with American subtitles.
https://bsky.app/profile/saulstaniforth.bsky.social/post/3loxalb5h5c2n
“Keir’s not driving the train. He thinks he’s driving the train, but we’ve sat him at the front of the DLR.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/feb/02/cooper-defends-starmer-after-book-says-chief-of-staff-called-him-an-hr-manager
Similarly, they can cut down on international students by, say, doubling domestic fees, I foresee no political consequences to this.
If they've any sense they'll tie this to the drop in immigration and then deal with the practicalities when it's calmed down a bit.
Just after the next election