In the case of the UK they're manufacturing consent to re-allow worker migration.
They need to do this because the reason the northern British working class voted for this was immigration, specifically economic immigration. They wanted Brexit because they CORRECTLY recognise that economic migration is suppressing wages. Entire factories were filled with Polish workers off the boat from EU. I have seen them.
Now, we can argue about how that's exploitation of the worker blah blah blah. The British worker sees it however and sees the solution as "let's stop the migration then, then the bosses will be forced to get the workers here at the rates the British workers want".
That's not how it works though and of course they won't raise rates. Some of the factories probably can't even justify it.
The British worker needs to learn this lesson but it's incredibly hard to teach it to them, they don't want to hear that the answer is to fight the bosses, they want the answer to be halting the migration. When the tories betray them and allow the migration the result is going to be that many go even further right. And a segment of the bourgeoisie are completely ok with that, they want fascism. The left is dangerous right now and they're terrified of the young waves and ongoing radicalisation that is happening. They feel a need for a fascist cleanse.
In the case of the UK they're manufacturing consent to re-allow worker migration.
They need to do this because the reason the northern British working class voted for this was immigration, specifically economic immigration. They wanted Brexit because they CORRECTLY recognise that economic migration is suppressing wages. Entire factories were filled with Polish workers off the boat from EU. I have seen them.
Now, we can argue about how that's exploitation of the worker blah blah blah. The British worker sees it however and sees the solution as "let's stop the migration then, then the bosses will be forced to get the workers here at the rates the British workers want".
That's not how it works though and of course they won't raise rates. Some of the factories probably can't even justify it.
The British worker needs to learn this lesson but it's incredibly hard to teach it to them, they don't want to hear that the answer is to fight the bosses, they want the answer to be halting the migration. When the tories betray them and allow the migration the result is going to be that many go even further right. And a segment of the bourgeoisie are completely ok with that, they want fascism. The left is dangerous right now and they're terrified of the young waves and ongoing radicalisation that is happening. They feel a need for a fascist cleanse.