You mean they are basically conservatives who, being poor, vote for their self interest (Labour).tbaldwin said:Most Labour voters are more likely to agree with me about crime and migration than most Urban Liberal lefties.....
You mean they are basically conservatives who, being poor, vote for their self interest (Labour).tbaldwin said:Most Labour voters are more likely to agree with me about crime and migration than most Urban Liberal lefties.....
TeeJay said:You mean they are basically conservatives who, being poor, vote for their self interest (Labour).
I am not saying that at all.SuburbanCasual said:Are you saying that the well off don't vote for their own self interest?
SuburbanCasual said:Go back to reading the Economist you rightwing little cunt.
You're half right. It is a sick society that forces workers thousands of miles. But it is as equal a sick society that prevents workers moving where they will.SuburbanCasual said:....... immigration destroys communites and families, it is a sick society that forces workers thousands of miles to get a decent job,............
The TUC supports the free movement of labour:
comments? comments??? are you seriously trying to claim that durutti merely 'comments' occasionally on the subject of immigration? when the only thread the obsessed get ever posts are on the subject? unbelievable.tbaldwin said:What a moronic comment....Cos somebody comments on something the BNP comment on "theyve adopted all their issues" have they?????
you are at least slightly more honest than d- he pretends to oppose immigration controls, except he wont tell anyone that and hopes to bfuddle people with his fantasies of re-introducing the closed shop in the near future (I wish! sadly, no chance). you are more straightfroward, as you've said, you oppose all immigration except for 'genuine' refugee's and upon absolute necessity - a few family ties. Not that far from the official position of the BNP actually (tho still quite far from what the real position of the BNP would be I grant you). And it's the left who needs to 'get real'?To run away from issues that the BNP profit from just means leaving them a clear playing field..
The Left has to think again and start telling the truth about immigration.
whilst not trusting Barber particularly, he does still seem to be willing to oppose aspects of it, and to demand that it any training etc is fully funded and not just a subsidy to the private sector. Its not that different a position from many disabled rights charities (from the bits I've read anyway)treelover said:What progressive about the T.U.C? Brendan Barber the head of the TUC has come out in support of the Welfare Refrom Bill with all the cuts and harassment of disabled and ill people that entails.
Julie said:The right wingers on here professing left wing/socialist ideology are so transparent in their deception/lies it's farcical.
But will they carry on here and elsewhere?
You betcha bootstraps
refugee said:You're half right. It is a sick society that forces workers thousands of miles. But it is as equal a sick society that prevents workers moving where they will.
Over the centuries British workers and families have been saved by emigration. It's a sick society that forced that as well. But it would have been a sicker one that forced them to stay here and rot.
greenman said:the working class (as a whole - the working class is international, it does not end or change at Calais, and you are always claiming - despite all evidence to the contrary - to be an internationalist) .
tbaldwin said:Greenman..... "evidence to the contrary" what kind of evidence is that?
Have you read what ive said on fair trade?International Labour rules? Reparations? The consequences of taking skilled workers from developing nations?
Exactly what evidence are you talking about?
a- they should get unionised and go and demand they are paid the minimum wagestevepinker said:My mates used to get 70 for 10hours of back breaking work
Now my same mates get 40-45 for the same hours and its fucking hard to find work on the building
And one seems to give a fuck if they can't afford to live, sucks to be working class, i wonder if it was office jobs if people would care more
everyday i see the working class people black and white getting more and more pissed off
greenman said:The key question, we should have for you, and try to pin you down on Mr B is agency, as hinted in Belboid's comparison of your and Durutti's contrasting positions. It is all very well ranting on about controlling immigration - but how do you expect to achieve this? Who are you calling on to enact what you are demanding? And do you seriously expect any of the current major political players to pay any attention whatsoever to your arguments?
Regardless of whether we think your assertions about the effects of current immigration into the UK are correct or not, the real cut of your political jib (and that of those who oppose and disagree with you as well) is defined by who and what you are expecting to influence, and how you see change happening.
It seems to me that what would be required to seriously change this area of politics and economics in the favour of the working class (as a whole - the working class is international, it does not end or change at Calais, and you are always claiming - despite all evidence to the contrary - to be an internationalist) would be the acqusition of such community and workplace strength that the question of immigration would be an irrelevance in the new balance of forces - there would be much more serious fish to fry.
stevepinker said:My mates used to get 70 for 10hours of back breaking work
Now my same mates get 40-45 for the same hours and its fucking hard to find work on the building
And one seems to give a fuck if they can't afford to live, sucks to be working class, i wonder if it was office jobs if people would care more
everyday i see the working class people black and white getting more and more pissed off
belboid said:a- they should get unionised and go and demand they are paid the minimum wage
b - office workers are working class, and equally badly paid
c - of courrse they are - the question is who we blame
belboid said:a- they should get unionised and go and demand they are paid the minimum wage
b - office workers are working class, and equally badly paid
c - of courrse they are - the question is who we blame
why would that happen? sorry, but thats just a daft answer.stevepinker said:So they should start a union and lose more jobs to immigrants
a) you're a pricktbaldwin said:a) fair enough not exactly a magic wand though is it.
b) What all of them?
c) The Political establishment and those who support free market policies on capital and labour.