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Post by mouse on Jul 3, 2016 3:51:54 GMT -5
www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/02/brexit-triggers-racism-climate-of-fearIn a room in St George’s Cathedral, Southwark, south London, on Thursday morning, more than 80 people, spilling into the corridor, talk about their experiences since the referendum result. They are mainly from South America, holding Spanish passports, still members of the European Union, legitimately in the UK. Half a dozen had been expected. Barristers María González-Merello and John Samson hold a free weekly legal advice clinic for Spanish-speaking cleaners who work for government departments and major companies in the city. This was different. “We called an emergency meeting because we’ve had so many people telling us about incidents [of apparent racism and xenophobia],” González-Merello says. “One woman had a cut in her pay packet, and when she complained she was told if she didn’t like it she should go back home. Another man was waiting for the night bus at 2am to go to work when a stranger said: ‘Haven’t you heard the news? You should have left.’” At the meeting, packed with babies, toddlers and anxious adult faces, one woman says she has worked for an employer for six years. On the Friday of the referendum result she was offered a new, less attractive, zero-hours contract
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Post by mouse on Jul 3, 2016 4:12:05 GMT -5
I can see both sides in this...frankly I don't like either first why are south Americans allowed to come in by fraud..and it is fraud..some south Americans may have Spanish passports or rather EU passport..but they are not spainiards if they come from south America....they have come under false pretences and one of the things about migrants or immigrants is the abuses of the system...ablanians pretending to be Kosovans...Yemenis etc pretending to be Syrians and so on ad nauseum on the other hand I loathe the people who abuse others who like the woman above has worked for 6yrs with her employer...who promptly abused her by slashing her wages and going for zero contracted hours...who ever that employers is should be taken to an industrial tribunal its not aceptble and its wrong zERO hours contracts should be made illegal..taking advanages to skrew wotkers over no matter where they come from on the other hand the UK like any other country owes NO ONE A LIVINGA or the right to expect employment..a countries nationals and passport holders should come first every time..with outside labour only being necessary to fill in the gaps and all those mentioned who do ministerial cleaning at Westminster...they all will have acess to health care and other benefits..and yes they are working but it wont be highly paid and one trip to the hospital or the doctors costs will not be met by any taxes paid and no the brits wont do those jobs ...because they simply cannot afford to do so...because their standards of living costs make it impossible for them to afford to do so...don't blame the people of either side...blame the polititions both here and abroad for this state of affairs....and yes you can blame those who abuse the system and those who abuse the migrants....but in the end it all come down to politics...its politition who create the reasons for abuse
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