Britain’s Made-Up Migrant Crisis
Political fearmongering about the effects of immigration on the British economy doesn’t track with reality.

“Every industrial and commercial center in England now possesses a working class divided into two hostile camps, English proletarians and Irish proletarians. The ordinary English worker hates the Irish worker as a competitor who lowers his standard of life. In relation to the Irish worker, he regards himself as a member of the ruling nation, and consequently he becomes a tool of the English aristocrats and capitalists against Ireland, thus strengthening their domination over himself.”


Political fearmongering about the effects of immigration on the British economy doesn’t track with reality.
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