Jeremy Corbyn: We’ve heard a lot about immigration – but we will not end cheap labour by dividing workers
The IndependentThe best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Islington’s diversity manifests in enormous inequality, a racial inequality that is invisibilised by those who continue to search for the “North London metropolitan elite”. However, we will not end cheap labour by dividing workers and belittling migrants’ countless contributions. Jeremy Corbyn at the Being Black in Islington event Pitting British workers against migrant workers fragments an otherwise united and powerful working-class, to the benefit of those who exploit them. And dividing skilled workers from “unskilled” workers legitimises harsh – and often inhumane – restrictions on those who do not meet the state’s arbitrary criteria.
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