Today I was once more energised by the negative way the BBC presents Jeremy Corbyn’s views. This morning for instance one of its reporters said the views Mr Corbyn expressed about immigration were confusing. This was untrue. Mr. Corbyn simply said that he didn’t think we should stop immigration but that we should stop big business organisations attracting foreign workers here to the United Kingdom and employing them at minimal or below minimal pay rates in order to carry out mainly menial tasks. Preventing big business from doing this would be an excellent way to control immigration since the jobs that most of us imagine immigrants usually do would now be paid at a rate attractive to UK workers. If these enhanced pay rates did not attract British workers, we could reasonably conclude that it was the nature of the jobs that was not attractive to British workers and since many of these currently low paid jobs are carried out at a critical (critical because crops have to be harvested when they are ready, and critical because we all need to eat) stage in the food production chain, it would still be necessary for us to invite immigrants to carry out these jobs since the big supermarket companies want to keep the cost of food production down because this is what their customers (that is, all of us) demand. Still, should this be the case if we adopted Mr. Corbyn's approach at least those who were carrying out these crucial jobs would be better rewarded for their toil.
An alternative to this, as Jeremy Corbyn also suggested this morning, is to apportion the rewards of production differently by reducing the pay of very high earners and sharing this money around more equably. Now why would anyone think this an extreme idea? It might be argued that "top people" deserve higher rewards. Personally I don't see the logic in this. There is overwhelming evidence to show this doesn't work. Look at the mess the well paid "top people" have already made of our planet and you may see what I'm getting at.
Ah, well time to watch another BBC news report to see what will get my goat this time.
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