Written by Mike Newland
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The Tories, and Labour before them, have converted much of the working-class into serfs now. The reliable jobs and incomes from making and producing things have largely disappeared, and the employment landscape is low-paid, insecure work with little in the way of prospects.
The middle-class cared nothing about this and supposed themselves untouchable. Anyone who has ever made things quickly finds out that the middle-class believe anyone can do it and despise the horny-handed unskilled as they see it.
The story that was told at the commencement of The Great Globalisation, following the collapse of communism, runs like this. All those nasty unskilled jobs will be sent abroad, leaving you the middle-class to get richer doing the skilled stuff. The newly developing countries could hardly get along without your brains in the background, could they?
Now stage two of globalisation is beginning after thirty years of stage one. It’s already well underway in the United States. They are coming for you middle-classes. Priti Patel just announced it.
The new plan for immigration is to restrict low-skilled immigration and bring in the talented from developing countries to make us rich. Let’s just consider this for a moment. What happened when Britain was flooded with low-skilled labour? Wages were held down. So, what is going to happen if you flood Britain with highly skilled labour? Wages will rise among the middle-class? Doh. But that’s what Patel said it would achieve. A new economy of high-skills and high wages.
Please allow me to present some sums. National income 100. Share taken by the Powers That Be (PTB) 35. National income 120. PTB share 40. National income 100. PTB share 45. Which will they prefer to engineer? Erm well, I’m not great on arithmetic but how about the one with the 45 shares. Give the writer a prize! That is the general pattern in cartoon form of what the Tories have presided over since the 2008 crash.
I’ve heard that Africans shrug if you mention their politicians looting their countries. If they didn’t while they have the chance, they’d be robbing their families. The Boris gang are well in power with no opposition in sight so let more looting begin. The ideal is a small ruling class and the rest of us with little stake and dependent on the ruling class. That means that the traditional power of the middle-class must be removed.
Patel says that the minimum wage to enter Britain is to be lowered. But I thought the plan was to raise wages with largely those capable of earning more brought in. What about those incapable of meeting the threshold? Will they actually be barred? Patel says they can be ‘sponsored’ by employers even if low earning and with poor English. So, they can come anyway if it suits employers to obtain low-skilled cheap labour!
One of the main reasons people voted for Brexit was to lower immigration numbers. Yet the Tory pledge (which turned out to be a whopper) of a cap on total numbers has been abandoned. Patel says the Government is restoring control but does not tell us at what level it will be controlled.
To enter, people will need so many virtue points for such things as speak English and qualifications. Who is going to check on that? A ‘self-certification’ system by employers like Blair had? However (they say politicians are like quiz hosts), bonus points are available where employers claim shortages. So, the low-skilled will be in anyway as usual. Well, employers will soon claim shortages if wages look likely to rise for their low-skilled won’t they. Don’t attack our bottom line by expecting investment, please.
No welfare for five years is another story about the plans for immigration. What nothing?? No NHS, schooling if you have children, starve on the street if the job goes. Let’s hear the details.
What is going to happen is akin to what has happened in the US. The middle-class will be called on train immigrants and then be replaced by the newly instructed. The new entrants’ skills will usually be far below what was implied by their ornate A level certificates, which were really border passes, (the lower ‘highly skilled’ limit) even assuming they were not purchased from the web like my two ‘PhDs‘.
The group which seems to have the keenest grasp of all this is the Communist Party of Great Britain. Class war is, after all, a basic of the communist outlook, and we have three classes contesting here – workers, middle-class and the ruling elite. It’s a shame that their remedy is no good.
They are coming for you middle-classes, and it’s difficult to sympathise when you shut your eyes about the same happening to the workers. The natural supporters of the Tory party, who thought their hour had come with a big Tory majority, will find it has – but not quite in the way they thought.
Boris Johnson is turning out to be a David Cameron clone. ‘Big boast, small roast’! Anyone who expected anything different has not been paying attention!!!
Boris was elected on the ‘anything other than Corbyn’ ticket. Until a credible alternative politician with honour and guts emerges (someone, anyone?) Britain will continue to be pillaged by the parliamentary class!
Has anyone got a suggestion ?
I have no words!
Caroline Voaden, a SW Lib Dem MEP who lost her job on 31 January, tweeted about Priti Patel’s announcement- Who’ll fill the coronation chicken sandwiches? Who’ll dig cauliflowers out of freezing muddy Cornish fields? Who’ll wash the hospital bedpans? Who’ll clean our offices at night? Who’ll feed,bathe and care for our most vulnerable?
Beggars belief doesn’t it. Oh yes, she is one of the ex MEPs who had a hissy fit over her eligibility for an EU pension though she was only voted in last May in our Euro Elections.
Those jobs will be done by the newly displaced middle classes, whose jobs have been taken by the new highly qualified immigrants who will work for lower wages. Once ten or twenty million more immigrants have arrived, the old British middle class will be the new ‘working class’.
The elite and the political class will, of course, be unaffected.
IMHO, guv, the middle class is simply the working class with significant investments. The whole thing’s an economic spectrum, not a “Two Ronnies”-style divide. Avin said that, I know my place 😉
Who did those jobs not so long ago? The wages are no longer market rate. They are deliberately and artificially suppressed.
Nobody ever mentions the UN Global Migration Compact and how this will fit into this picture. I believe this unconditionally entitles 3rd world migrants admitted per the Compact, all rights and benefits enjoyed by existing citizens. I believe it will open the floodgates : it stipulates that each sovereign state can determine the number of migrants it admits. But I would be amazed if Britain emerged from the Transition period with control of its borders. The EU will be the sovereign state that determines the numbers. I really think this is yet again weasel words from the Tories.
The all new singing and dancing points based immigration system sounds fine to most voters and that is job done in the eyes of our globalist political class. Headlines today and a system they can quietly manipulate as they please in place. How easily we are played by these people who are concerned only to lower immigration concerns to 3rd or 4th in the list of voter priorities.
Clearly the agenda is unchanged.
I don’t think it will be that easy this time after the MSM honeymoon is over. Sir Andrew Green, Farage and many others are on the case. The MSM needs copy and this is no longer a taboo subject as during the 1990s. The Sun got in early over total numbers with no cap.
The MSM builds up to get readers then knocks down to get more. Plus this time the bunny (middle-class) gets it.
Sir Andrew Green points out that the lower income limit is not 25k as Patel proclaimed. It’s 18k for under 26s. Effectively the minimum wage as he pointed out. The entire scheme is a continued cheap labour scam. Farage thinks overall numbers will likely rise. Never trust a Tory!
Fully agree with your viewpoint. It had to happen sooner or later.
Spot on about the middle income earners Mike, plenty of examples in the Midlands and the North of how people who actually ‘did and made things’ were treated by them, their comments about the fishing industry being another ‘ nobody eats it around here anyway ‘was the comment of one cafe owning ‘celebrity’ in Cornwall, now it’s all coming home to roost, why Boris is even going to ban their ‘prestige ‘ cars and the latest attack is on their wood burning stoves , Oh! dear, what a shame, never mind , who would have thought it.