Actually MR im with you on it. If you feed peoples fears and give them a new enemy, you can cover a multitude of sins. In a months time, nothing will be written about Calais, but it wont have changed. As it hasnt in the months before now.
And the ones most screwed over, the poorer end of society, will be the ones blaming the "foreigners" as much as the middle classes.
While I have some sympathy with yours and MRs views. See what you have just done?
You accuse the press of basically throwing chaff up in the air to deflect from other issues, and in doing that do you not think you are doing just the same?
The in/out numbers in any country; count, security, resources, cohesion is a real important subject. One of the most important as we struggle with overpopulation (the planets most urgent problem imo), and Diasporas of people movements.
What troubles me is that every time there is a reasonable discussion, the right start getting xenophobic and the left start shouting cover up. Its really giving me a long term migraine! In this country now every subject has chaff thrown at it; nuclear, fracking, runways, nhs, aging populations etc. And by chaff, I don't mean reasoned debate.
We need to get back to what we used to be good at and that is stripping away the shit and examining the raw core evidence of issues and then taking fast effective action.
As far as labour movement goes, you don't need to convince me, I work in engineering/construction as you know and we regularly work in this country on projects with German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese contractors who are brilliant. I myself had to train a load of them early this year for a project we managed, couldn't have met a nicer more competent bunch. Without labour movement major construction projects would not go ahead, trust me on this one.
