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The UK government is about to legislate xenophobia into law in the guise of a new "points-based immigration system" which will crater whole industries, from hospitality to farming, like an asteroid strike. ☄️
It also plans to compel the sick, disabled and elderly (and full-time students) to replace the lost EU migrants...
theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/f…
Here's a fuller definition of that awesome untapped pool of labour, from the HOC library: "The main economically inactive groups are students, people looking after family and home, long term sick and disabled, temporarily sick and disabled, retired people and discouraged workers"
Many of that group already do thankless and vital jobs uncompensated, have other demands on their time, or put in a whole working life already. But now Priti Patel sees them as workfield fodder...
It's also interesting to see what Priti Patel and her fellow Tory wreckers really thought of British workers in more unguarded times, when they had a book to write...

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
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