• makingrain@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    People have voted on immigration as a priority for decades and have been ignored. It’s no surprise that this is happening with Reform rush.

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      6 days ago

      The problem is that policy doesn’t work. The economy is built on the assumption that there will always be low wage workers around to do the jobs British nationals won’t do.

      Every western economy has always used workers from poorer economies as the base workforce. If reform implement their ill-thoughtout draconian immigration policies they just won’t come here. Which of course will cause a crisis that reform will predictably try and solve by forcing prisoners and anyone on benefits to do the work, and just like that you have debtors prison again.

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        6 days ago

        I didn’t mention any policy.

        Western economies didn’t always rely on foreigner workers from “poor counties”, you’ve made a huge assumption. Always? Laughable.

        However, that’s not true. We brain drain poorer countries for their doctors and nurses, whilst our graduates struggle to find work. We import foreigners to work in care homes, which is a private industry but the scale is mad different to how it used to be. Do you have any examples?

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          5 days ago

          Yeah exactly. We don’t pay our NHS workers enough money that isn’t a societal failing that is a political decision Reform won’t help with that, they will privatise the NHS and make the situation 100 million times worse do not vote for them unless you are in favour of societal collapse.