Blair’s government removed their permission to work while waiting for decision. That seems to have created an immoral incentive for decisions to be made very slowly at some later point, because if the government doesn’t decide, the ignorant can’t complain as much about refugees taking jobs.
I think there’s a few reasons behind the slow-tracking of processing asylum claims.
One is that they were just cutting anything they could in the name of Austerity. Just another way to funnel money from the poor to the rich.
But the other is I think the same reason why the right-leaning press have had small boats on their front pages for years at this point, despite the reason for small boat crossings being a lack of safe legal routes and accounting for a small percentage of immigration - to make people hate immigrants.
Why? Because the right mostly do well amongst the older generations. However, the Boomers are dying off, and younger people aren’t moving to the right the way they used to because they don’t have the assets to make that a sound financial choice.
So the choice for the right becomes between changing your policies to appeal to more people, or creating wedge issues which you can make your entire election platform. And they’re not going to go to the effort of working out policies which would help people, are they? So create a “crisis” involving “those people” and be the party who’s against “those people”, and you should do all right.
Unless an even more racist party comes along, of course…
Blair’s government removed their permission to work while waiting for decision. That seems to have created an immoral incentive for decisions to be made very slowly at some later point, because if the government doesn’t decide, the ignorant can’t complain as much about refugees taking jobs.
I think there’s a few reasons behind the slow-tracking of processing asylum claims.
One is that they were just cutting anything they could in the name of Austerity. Just another way to funnel money from the poor to the rich.
But the other is I think the same reason why the right-leaning press have had small boats on their front pages for years at this point, despite the reason for small boat crossings being a lack of safe legal routes and accounting for a small percentage of immigration - to make people hate immigrants.
Why? Because the right mostly do well amongst the older generations. However, the Boomers are dying off, and younger people aren’t moving to the right the way they used to because they don’t have the assets to make that a sound financial choice.
So the choice for the right becomes between changing your policies to appeal to more people, or creating wedge issues which you can make your entire election platform. And they’re not going to go to the effort of working out policies which would help people, are they? So create a “crisis” involving “those people” and be the party who’s against “those people”, and you should do all right.
Unless an even more racist party comes along, of course…