Immigrants have been taking some stick lately, and it isn’t a pretty sight. Earlier this week the new, near fascist Italian interior minister told a boatload of immigrants from Africa to fuck off somewhere else. In America, a new policy of separating “illegal” immigrants from their children has been in force for a while, and hundreds of the former are in detention, while their children, well, we’re not sure what’s happened to them. We do know Trump and his supporters, of whom there continue to be millions, don’t care. And here at home, May’s “hostile environment for immigrants” policy has backfired with disastrous consequences for the NHS. Suddenly the government realised they were keeping out hundreds of doctors and nurses badly needed to keep the whole thing afloat. They seem to have forgotten that the NHS has relied on immigrants for over 50 years.
How could it all have gone so terribly wrong? you might ask. The only answer as I see it is: they’re idiots. And we’re idiots for letting them get away with it. Take Brexit, for example. As Frankie Boyle put it so neatly, Brexit is Christmas for racists. People voted Leave in their millions, adopting the fantasy that before long all those nasty foreigners with their strange appearance, funny languages and sponging off the state would be packed off home, leaving us indigenous Brits to enjoy the green and pleasant land that is our birthright. They didn’t realise they were falling into the trap of an ultra-right wing cabal intent on turning us into an offshore tax haven and allowing capitalism to really let rip. They didn’t realise our great country is going to be a lot less prosperous as a result, and that thousands will be put out of work. This is beginning to happen already. And baby, it’s gonna get a whole lot worse. But at least we’ll have got rid of the immigrants, right? Wrong. Turns out actually we can’t do without them...
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