"Well Ake's right about one thing."
"Right" being the operative word
This is primitive stuff - not too far from "coming over here to take our jobs and molest our white women" - the racist garbage of my youth.
If immigrants are working for less, so is every indigenous individual involved in the black economy (now referred to as the "underground" or "shadow" economy), reckoned to be worth £150 billion per year.
His claims of education, apprenticeship schemes and training are utter nonsense - apprenticeship schemes for what?
Britain no longer has an industry which requires apprentices - you don't need expensive schemes for stacking shelves in Sainsburys, which is the level of work many school leavers are being forced to take up in Britain's failing economy.
This is why youngsters flock to Europe to find work and this is the door that Brexit has closed - much to the glee of little Englanders like Ake
Higher education has been placed out of the reach of poorer families by the fees demanded - it is now the sole domain of the Middle Classes
It is estimated that at present between 4.5 million and 5.5 million Britons live abroad, that's around 7-8% of the UK population, around 1.2 million of those live in Europe.
Two years ago it was estimated that there were 33,000 Britons drawing dole in Europe
That is not caused by a few Poles being paid to paint our kitchens and hang shelves - it is the fault of a failing economy
It has always been easy to blame immigrants - that's what our establishment has always done to explain their failings, and that's what the rabid right has always fed off, like the maggots they are
Jim Carroll