Kensal and Kilburn Better 2025 event
What Should Be the Left's Position on Immigration?
On Tuesday, 17 June, 7pm at St Lukes Church, Fernhead Road, W9 3EH (Queens Park station)
Free tickets!
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The Right and Far-Right are weaponising the issue of immigration. The Left too often either copies them or is silent. What are the options?
Socialists need to be unequivocal and bold in standing up for asylum seekers fleeing death and persecution. What should it say about economic migrants and what would a popular Left immigration policy look like?
Come and discuss with an excellent panel including Zoe Gardner, immigration campaigner and researcher, among others.
5 comments:
Struggle is numbers are unsustainable. Paying for so many hotels when our own homeless are on the street and people from Brent (of all backgrounds) cannot get social housing and are sent to the midlands. It’s common sense it is a problem now and not racism or xenophobia. The left really do need a response as i know left people who will be voting reform for this reason as well as the level of income tax being raised to £25k. What is labour doing for us and what are our other options? Corbyn needs to launch his political party
Let’s be clear here. According to the Home Office about 1.3 million people immigrated to the UK in the year ending December 2024. Over the same period around 800,000 people emigrated. Of those arriving here, according to the Office of National Statistics, about 109,000 were refugees or asylum seekers - less than 10% of the total. Those fleeing war, famine, climate catastrophe and persecution are not the problem and should not be blamed for fleeing oppression or creating a ‘housing shortage’..
The reason why ‘our own homeless are on the street and people from Brent (of all backgrounds) cannot get social housing’ is because this government and it’s predecessors made a political choice not to invest in building adequate numbers of social housing at affordable and sustainable rents. Instead they have encouraged developers and private landlords to build massive amounts of properties (but few suitable for families) - such as in the heart of Wembley - that are targeted at the city bankers and spivs working in Canary Wharf.
Home Office - https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-statistics-year-ending-march-2025/how-many-people-claim-asylum-in-the-uk
ONS - www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/internationalmigration/bulletins/longterminternationalmigrationprovisional/yearendingdecember2024#long-term-net-migration
Do you not believe the hotel situation is unusual?
In response to comments above: Corbyn would be a disaster for the country at this time (and I have voted for him). He did not help himself when in opposition (in the face of bias from everywhere). He had his chance and will never get into power now.
Also, many of those who rent in Wembley and work in the city/Canary Wharf have probably had to work very hard to get where they are and pay a price for that. Those calling them names gives you an indication of their mental state. I would not want to live in state where these people have any kind of power.
Immigration of all kinds is a complex subject. Many immigrants seeking asylum are economic migrants (i have worked in the sector). A significant number of people in the UK want it restricted and have wanted so for many years now - and even more so now than ever. In democracy, their voice must be heard.
In 2023: There were 591,072 live births in England and Wales, the lowest number of births since 1977 (569,259). 1.44 birth per woman, the lowest on record : Source - ONS
House prices are set by demand, more people , more demand. Simple economics.
Houses prices started to increase dramatically are around the year 2000. (Source : Nationwide) From an image , see below.
https://www.cladcodecking.co.uk/media/wysiwyg/blog/real_house_price_over_time_graph.png
That was roughly when Tony Blair decided to continue with his plans of globalisation from which we have never recovered.
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