I do not wish to get into the pros and cons of that. What does get to me is the implication that tories would do something. The whole of Britains post war experience shows that this is not the case.
I was once working in the London offices of a multinational, there were a lot of cleaners and apparently a lot of them were illegals. Something happened and an angry member of staff made it clear that he was going to phone a relative who worked for the immigration authorities.
Some time went by and nothing happened. He contacted his relative and was told that they had been put on hold. They were not allowed to upset a system of maintaining cheap labour. There role was to just keep a lid on it.
That was in Thatchers time. So if you are into naming and blaming, at least be fair.
It’s been a failure of succcessive governments to deal with this issue,the EU encouraged cheap labour with free movement and Mrs Merkel opened the floodgates to over a million unknowns,we can see the effect it’s had on Norway Sweden and Denmark.
Next we had labours Blair and Brown who had the idea of hugging the world and let over a 100,000 in and then admit it was a mistake.
There’s no doubt that controlled immigration has great benefits because you get to pick those that will contribute to the system but a constant stream of unknown illegals is unsustainable and a strain on the system which is already under pressure.
Tomorrow I and my colleagues will be dealing with homeless people and those in food and fuel poverty,this will include migrants,they will be issued a sleeping bag and a tent (lucky it’s summer) and some food with a plate knife and fork plus clothes if they need them,we can put a plaster on their problems but we cannot fix them.
So being fair it’s successive governments that are at fault for this mess and it will only get worse because this government will not confront the issue either.
