I think you'll find that mass immigration isn't a 'leftie' ideal, after all aren't left wing ideologies tied in with betterment for workers?

Nope, mass immigration serves a right wing agenda.

Uncontrolled immigration drives down wages and increases the competition for jobs (especially low-skilled jobs), making the prospect of unemployment, low pay or the horrors of zero hours contracts much more likely for millions of ordinary workers.

Another way in which ordinary workers lose out through mass immigration is the increased pressure on local services such as health and education, on which they, and their children rely.

Corporations and rich employers benefit from the large labour surpluses created by mass uncontrolled immigration, because the increased competition for jobs allows them to drive down the wages they pay, therefore increasing their profit margins.

The profitability of the labour surplus is hardly a new concept. Karl Marx explained how capitalism benefits from surplus labour way back in the mid-19th Century. A large standing army of unemployed, provided with just enough welfare to keep them alive is absolutely fundamental to the modern neoliberalised capitalist system.

The wealthy minority are almost completely insulated from the negative effects of mass uncontrolled immigration. They don't even notice the extra pressure on services, because the majority of the executive class generally have private health plans and privately educate their kids.

What is more, they are much more likely to be dodging their taxes, so many amongst them don't even contribute towards the costs of providing these extra services, despite the fact that they are the ones benefiting most from mass uncontrolled immigration.

You've fallen for the spin of the press again I'm afraid.

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By left, you mean the right of centre government of Tony Blair, who are more or less indistinguishable politically from the current Conservative party?

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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Corbyn's agenda is to help those fleeing war and persecution.

Well I agree with you on the EU labour point...which is the point I was making in the first place.

But I'm afraid we will have to agree to disagree on the Calais point.
Because I do not believe that many there are fleeing persecution, economic migrants.

always a Norwood boy, where ever I live.

Neither do I. I suspect some of them are, and they deserve the right to be assessed. Problem is, what do you do with the others. You can't send them back, you can't just leave them as 'Frances Problem' either (because they won't be once they get across the channel).

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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Although this doesn't cover Calais specifically it does break down the numbers a bit.
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62%

Far from being propelled by economic migrants, this crisis is mostly about refugees. The assumption by the likes of Hammond, May and others is that the majority of those trying to reach Europe are fleeing poverty, which is not considered by the international community as a good enough reason to move to another country. Whereas in fact, by the end of July, 62% of those who had reached Europe by boat this year were from Syria, Eritrea and Afghanistan, according to figures compiled by the UN. These are countries torn apart by war, dictatorial oppression, and religious extremism – and, in Syria’s case, all three. Their citizens almost always have the legal right to refuge in Europe. And if you add to the mix those coming from Darfur, Iraq, Somalia, and some parts of Nigeria – then the total proportion of migrants likely to qualify for asylum rises to well over 70%.