As an aside, I’ve seen this happen elsewhere as well. Classic play for wage theft. When I was working as a bartender in London to make ends meet, I had a coworker from Mexico on an expired visa. Great guy and the most hardworking. Well won’t you guess it, guy got picked up by immigration authority on payday.
This is the same in UK. There are people who believe that illegal immigration is the reason rents are high and jobs are hard to get and also they’re all on benefits. It’s illegal to rent to or employ an illegal immigrant and I’m not sure how they are supposed to apply for benefits as an illegal immigrant but the narrative persists. Legal immigrants here have zero access to any benefits at all.
But, obviously it is all their fault and not those illegally employing and housing them.
Legal immigrants can claim benefits depending on their immigration status and whether they’ve been granted recourse to public funds; but the majority work their backsides off.
It’s just an excuse to be openly racist.
I’m constantly surprised as I wander thro my middle England life with the people who have had a privileged existence yet still hold ignorant views on immigration.
How about we acknowledge why this historically angry little island of ours has so much immigration and that each decade’s wave of influx has positively contributed to our society
CUM OVER ON A BOAT LOVE THEYD HAVE GIV U AN HOUSE BY NOW!
Yeah, OK Margaret, we’ll just ignore your middle-aged son who has never worked a day in his life, and your several grandchildren with severe autism.
Looking forward to my front row seat when they see what Reform’s “war on wokery” really means for those people.