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Eliminating the Dependency on Immigration - Why reforming the system is key to addressing the problem

 

It is often said across the political spectrum that we ‘need’ immigration and immigrant labour in order to deal with an aging population and skills shortages. It is not a need, rather it is a dependency. Over the past 50 years, society and the economy have become structured in such a way that they have become dependent on immigration, to the detriment of our native population in the long-term. The groundwork for this problem was laid long before the first migrant actually set foot here, and has its foundation in the way that the political and economic system has been made to work.  

 

The ultimate understanding that we must come to when planning how to deal with all immigration-related problems is this:

 

That the International Capitalist system which has consumed Great Britain for generations, has put our country into a state of dependency on mass immigration and multiracialism, to the benefit of a tiny number of profiteers but to the detriment of absolutely everybody else. Eliminating this system and the dependency that it causes, must be a precursor to everything else.

 

The dependency is most obvious in the way that many sectors of the economy and public services have become institutionally reliant on foreign labour to function. Some public services, especially health and care related services, are virtually dependent on imported labour to operate at capacity. Businesses frequented by huge numbers of people, such as off-licenses, post offices, take aways, barbers’ shops, are heavily overrepresented in their operation by immigrants. Industries that operate offshore, particularly shipping, have deliberately gravitated towards foreign labour because of the way that operations outside of the mainland allow wages and conditions that would be so poor that they would be illegal if British people were subjected to them.

 

Why are these sectors of the economy so reliant on foreign labour as opposed to British labour?

 

With regard to skilled workers, the debt that students get trapped in either puts off a great many from becoming trained (especially in medicine), or causes them to leave that sector very quickly. The NHS is the best example of this. Student debt leaves junior doctors and nurses with such a low income that many either leave altogether or simply don’t pursue that career to begin with. Foreign use (and abuse) of the British National Health Service does place excess pressure on the service that shouldn’t be there, but even if you remove that from the equation there would still be an overall dependency on foreign labour, who often don’t face the same student debt problem, or have the added benefit of their employment assisting a pathway to citizenship.

 

With regard to unskilled sectors, immigration has been used as a way of undermining British workers for decades, to the point where sectors such as social/old age care, agricultural work, and unskilled service jobs are significantly over-represented by immigrant workers. The reason this took place, was because, to the international capitalist, foreign workers could be paid less, could be subjected to worse working conditions and in some cases outright illegal practices simply because they don’t know any better. For profiteers willing to take the legal risk, illegal immigrants are even better, because they are guaranteed no recourse at all, and many end up working in black-economy jobs, in conditions that resemble slavery. Ultimately, rather than operate the economy for the good of the British worker, the international capitalist system made the British worker redundant in pursuit of profit.

 

As to enterprising businesses, in most parts of the country, foreign-owned and run small businesses (including franchises) are virtually omnipresent. Whilst some of these businesses (with their preference for cash-only trade and seeming lack of customers) are undoubtedly part of the criminal economy, most are not, and are legitimate enterprises that are readily used by whichever community they are in. Yes, many people are unhappy about the fact that so many small businesses are owned by migrants, but at the same time many local communities enjoy the services that these businesses provide, and in some cases are dependent on them completely. Legitimate small businesses are often demanding to run in terms of hours worked, and not particularly profitable, and someone with an initial amount of capital but limited employment options (which is often the case with immigrants) will often see them as a workable niche.

 

The reason this dependency has come into existence, is because society, the economy and political system are designed to extract the maximum amount of profit from our people, to our people’s ultimate loss.

 

This is why the National Agenda can only exist as a singular whole, and why all of the attempts to remedy immigration, ethnic and demographic related issues without addressing any of the underlying causes of those issues, will fail. The most banal of motives are typically the right ones, and whilst some will point to ideological conspiracies as the reason for mass immigration and free movement, the real, banal motive is money. The political class of today has a commitment to ideology that stretches the length of a coin, and thus all decisions are made in the interests of the one great international, which is capital.

 

To eliminate the dependency on immigration, means eliminating the International Capitalist, and internationalism generally.

 

It is well within the power of a competent National Government to do this.

 

For skilled workers, the state must eliminate those things which have made certain sectors unattractive to huge numbers of people. For sectors that are of national importance that require vocational training, again such as medicine, the required education should be provided debt-free. In the last years of secondary education, more energy and focus should be spent directing people into careers which suit their skills and are also national demand. In other words, one of the tasks of the education system must be to prepare young people for employment. Concurrently to this, the restructuring of the citizenship and immigration system into an ethnocentric one will make it impossible for skilled sectors to use foreign labour as a band-aid for problems. Over the course of a generation, the combination of these two kinds of policies will eliminate any dependency on foreign labour from the skilled sectors of the economy.

 

For unskilled workers, the state must take a more active role in organising the labour force, with a view to offering better employment opportunities for British unskilled workers, more stringent management of working regulations to prevent the exploitation of foreign labour, and more direct intervention in getting unemployed people into in-demand jobs once they are available. It must both the right and duty of every British citizen to engage in some form of productive work, and thus a massive re-industrialisation programme must be put on the table as a way of generating enormous job opportunities that are readily accessible. The labour force must be free from all abuses, and thus it is part of the National Agenda to put an end to the endless back and forth between the state, the businessman and the trade unions through a more centralised management of the labour force as a whole. As is the case with skilled work, a central part of the education system must be to prepare young people for employment, and thus there must be more direct communication between the education system and the labour force in order to facilitate this. The part of the welfare state which deals with unemployment must directly organise unemployed people into an organised, labour-providing entity which can directly allocate people (and groups of people) paid work in unskilled sectors of the economy.

 

For enterprising, the state must develop a genuine understanding of what the barriers to British people running small businesses have been, and if anything can be done to change this. For British people who do not have an initial sum of capital, establishing small businesses can be difficult, especially when it comes to getting credit. It is for reasons such as this that the National Agenda provides the underlying idea for the state to more actively bolster and support (including through financial aid) businesses which serve some community or national interest. There is scope to examine the way that taxation, particularly VAT registration, affects small businesses or puts many British people off establishing them. Additionally, the secondary education system must offer those who show an interest in self-employment, some guidance (particularly when it comes to finances and accountancy) in the subject. With regard to black economy enterprises, the National Agenda as a whole provides for a state which is significantly more omnipotent than today, and with more ability to instantly and ruthlessly eliminate organised criminality. It is not unreasonable to believe that black economy businesses would quickly vacate the country or simply abandon criminality and legitimise themselves as a consequence of losing any ability to engage in crime.

 

Addressing immigration, demographic and ethnic problems means addressing the factors that lead to those problems.

 

This is truer than ever when discussing the fact that our economy has, genuinely, become dependent on foreign labour to function. Eliminating this dependency is the first step to dealing with everything else. Dependency is ultimately a form of slavery, because the hand that gives is always above the hand that takes. Our people need not be the hand that constantly requires to take. It is well within our power to restructure our political, social and economic system to free ourselves from the dependence on international free-market capitalism, and with it the dependence on international labour. It is not a question of why anymore, it is a question of how. We have a plan, and we have the will, now, we need to carry it out.

 

By Alek Yerbury

 

Party Leader