Channel 4 Dispatches - Momentum Party

I agree with you, Jess. There's even muddled thinking about migrant workers. Some of them come to work in the NHS, schools, IT, engineering etc and, thank goodness they do, because we have chronic skills shortages. Generally, it seems that skilled workers don't suffer that much discrimination. They're not 'taking anybody's jobs' and are being paid the going rate in skilled jobs.

However, if you go into parts of Fenland, especially Boston (the highest voting Brexit area in the country), attitudes are different. Workers are often employed by agencies and do drive wages down. The agencies sometimes use a loophole, which allows them to pay 'local' (ie country of origin) rates, which is below the UK minimum wage. Their English is often poor and there's a tribal mentality amongst the immigrants themselves and local people. Waffly liberal talk is going to fall on deaf ears, so Corbyn is right to open the discussion about barriers to integration and do something about it.

But daphne Corbyn doesn't regognise that there is a problem. I know he gave a nod to it in his speech but I think he was pressured into that.

Corbyn cannot force people to change their views on immigration ,

I presume that even in Fenland some of the immigrants work in engineering and the NHS.

Corbyn doesn't want to force anyone to change their views on immigration.
He wants them to read, listen and work out for themselves that immigration is helpful to the UK.

Re-educate them?

Send the thought police round. Now there's a job creation scheme because they're going to need a lot of them.

The case for full employment? ?

I fear what is happening to the Labour party, the vice chairperson of Momentum eho was suspended from the party this year then later reinstated - anti semitism allegations - was recorded at a momentum training day saying she didn't know the definition of anti semitism, the holocaust dsy should be open for all - some in the group told her it was- she also said more gypsies then Jews were killed . There us call from Jewish groups fir her to be sacked.

So the vice chair of momentum doesn't know the definition of anti semitism and why do they have training days ? To rehearse 'You are the wind beneath my wings, I doubt it.

Here's an interesting view of the conference.

theconversation.com/what-my-students-saw-when-i-took-them-to-the-labour-party-conference-66218

A lecturer in public relations and politics took her students to the conference.
They didn't seem to have any problems getting into any of the rooms they wanted to see, and observed quite a lot of what went on.

Sorry, can't see the relevance of the link, the lecturer had a few digs at people who are not far left though, why should there be any problems getting into rooms? It was the labour conference not the momentum conference

Don't care, Annie.
Doesn't have to be relevant in your terms. It's just a view of the conference by someone who was there with her students.