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DonCoquixote

(13,729 posts)
14. You know the usual suspects
Thu May 21, 2015, 05:38 AM
May 2015

... Mr Cameron will say: “The truth is it has been too easy to work illegally and employ illegal workers here. So we’ll take a radical step – we’ll make illegal working a criminal offence in its own right. That means wages paid to illegal migrants will be seized as proceeds of crime and businesses will be told when their workers’ visas expire. So if you’re involved in illegal working – employer or employee – you’re breaking the law.”


You know the usual suspects are going to be using the UK as precedent. The same people that would ban single payer will lovingly quote Cameron and his band of Tory goons.

and please spare me the "Tories are not like our GOP" biz, because they only reason they are not is because Maggie Thatcher laid such a stinkbomb that they had to concede certain things, which, once they learn to use Koch style bribery, will be fixed.

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How about take the company's profits they made off of illegal workers instead of a bloomington-lib May 2015 #1
exactly! n/t wildbilln864 May 2015 #5
WhatdafucksamatterU? Those companies is what made the U.K., Hoppy May 2015 #7
Because the objective is to make the poor & desperate Jackpine Radical May 2015 #9
Wage theft is better for Crony Capitalist! imthevicar May 2015 #13
Exactly! LeftishBrit May 2015 #15
Hmm. davidthegnome May 2015 #2
Notice that only the poor saps will feel the brunt of this policy. Businesses get off scot free. PSPS May 2015 #3
Next up: Expedited death penalty for children of illegal immigrants. DRoseDARs May 2015 #4
Reverse Robinhood - How Nice Of You Cameron DallasNE May 2015 #6
Absolutely appalling. Outright theft of wages. closeupready May 2015 #8
Does he plan to yank the gold from their teeth too? Spitfire of ATJ May 2015 #10
Thatcher wanna be olddots May 2015 #11
Nigel Farage will be soooo pleased! mackerel May 2015 #12
You know the usual suspects DonCoquixote May 2015 #14
Good idea, punish the worker by taking away miniscule wages that were earned through honest labor. Nitram May 2015 #16
Here's an idea: fine the employer the difference between the CEO's pay and the employee's muriel_volestrangler May 2015 #17
I don't understand why companies in the UK hire illegal immigrants. Beauregard May 2015 #18
Uh, right... freebrew May 2015 #19
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