-
Surely the fact that the proletariat are forced through their lack of means of production to migrate and sell their labour in order to live is something every Corbynista should be rallying against.
hugo7-
I'm not sure that isolationism has ever been the left's answer to the pressures of capitalism, but it's certainly a novel approach
-
Yes. So closing the door to them here is the solution?
I mean, if mainland EU had done that to the English when things were not going so well here in the 70s, would that have improved anything?
If I were Labour, I could think of a lot of useful things to do in the EU, but shutting the door for people isn't one of them.
Beside, the nasty right started this conversation in the UK, why adopt nativist and xenophobic projects? May as well be redkip then.
bothwell
JWestland
Workers of the world, unite and all that.
Freedom of movement also allows UK pensioners to easily marry EU citizens, live in EU countries, have access to rights that UK immigration will not grant them, be able to retire easily in the EU AND get low cost healthcare...
...and it turns out that if it is put like that, with the comment that people with no cash/nobody they can live with to pay the bills/and don't have a job can already be evicted, the UK is actually OK with FOM.