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Care to elaborate?
Well clearly they're hurt. Low income, high cost of living, high rent, the NHS is overwhelmed, impossible to find affordable living space, stuff like that. I think even Lemmy would agree that no one is doing well.
The thought is that it's intentional, that the politicians are deliberately importing cheap labor and deliberately failing to protect domestic industry. Which imo, probably is.
The migrants are just pawns, but they're much more accessible and seen as a symbol of the new awful British way.
Boohoo let’s form an SA and do some pogroms then! Clearly some poor fuckers in a hotel are the reason for the misery, not the €28 billion net worth of the British royals or the owning class in general that fills it pockets through years of Tory rule and shifting the Overton window so far to the right that anyone who speaks of helping the poor is considered to be the reincarnation of Karl Marx himself.
I would like to find nicer words but at this point working class right wingers to me seem like they have brain damage. You can’t be doing mental gymnastics to this extend and have a healthy functioning brain at the same time.
If they were brain damaged that would make them less culpable for their actions.
They’re not brain damaged; they’re fully responsible for their actions. However, they are victims of propaganda. But that shouldn’t change how we react to them - by putting them down, hard.
No, the politicians are responsible. There's just a lot of consequences to that.
And how are the tories right wing? What right wing policies do they have?
some seem to have supported Brexit.
At this point I can only quote Walter White:
“Is this just a genetic thing with you? Is it congenital? Did your mother drop you on your head when you were a baby?”
Politicians control the immigration policies. They don't just appear out of nowhere.
Same with a lack of protective tariffs.
Have you considered moving to North Korea? Not many migrants there and their internal market is fully protected.
Why aren't they angry with the tories and Farage then? They've shaped our economy into a state that's dependent on immigration while simultaneously destroying all our public services.
Because of propaganda, and a lack of education/critical thinking. The media tells them who to blame.
They are
Yeah right, you're telling me they aren't all Farage arse lickers, one and all? Pull the other one, it's got bells on.
Protective tarriffs are only good for a small portion of society and make everyone else suffer by paying more for worse goods. If certain industries aren't competitive they should shut down and Britain should pivot to doing things it's actually good at.
Factories in first world countries are usually pretty good. Much better than their counterparts in other countries.
What's the point of workers rights if you just move the factories to countries that don't care about workers?
We could implement the same workplace safety policies the UK has and labor in developing countries would still be vastly cheaper. Workers in developing countries take factory jobs because the alternative is worse. We're not helping these people by discouraging their society from industrializing, nobody wants to be a subsistence farmer forever.
How exactly?
I suppose many of those immigrants are from Commonwealth countries.
Some of those pawns are children, perhaps terrified children.