He evidently intends to follow the exact same approach as New Labour, and the Coalition, and the Brexiters: echoing the language of the far right and introducing new policies to make immigrants’ lives miserable. We desperately need an honest conversation about immigration. No previous government has provided it. Starmer will not do so either.
Every new government pretends there was an era of unfettered, aggressively multicultural immigration before it arrived, but that it will now take control of the system. Not once did we have an administration which was prepared to state the benefits of it to our economy, but also – and this needs saying – to our society.
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Elsewhere, the Prime Minister engaged in the standard response of the Home Office to the empirical refutation of its stated aims. In particular, Starmer denied that immigration is good for economic growth. He had to say this, because he is supposedly single-minded in his pursuit for growth but is today unveiling policies which will damage it.
“The theory that higher migration numbers necessarily lead to higher growth has been tested in the last four years,” he said. “We’ve had the highest net migration when the last government lost control, to nearly one million, and stagnant growth. And so that link doesn’t hold on that evidence.”
As we watched the Prime Minister lose his moral stature today, we also watched him lose his intellectual stature. Indeed, both fell away as one, because the debate on immigration is defined by myth-making and nativism rather than evidence and reason. It makes a mockery of those who engage in it, as much as those it targets.
The Government wants to ban care workers from overseas. Fine. What is its plan to look after people if there are gaps in the workforce, which there most certainly will be? There isn’t one. The Government wants to reduce the number of foreign students. Fine. What is its plan for university funding, given they’ve long been encouraged to use those higher fees in their business model? There isn’t one.
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In that sense not much has changed today. It’s just another government destroying our national quality of life in order to placate the far right. All we really learned is that Starmer is as bad as those who came before him. What a bitter disappointment.
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