Dark forces showing their hand - Tory delusion and deceit on Brexit

DONALD TRUMP must be kicking himself — or more likely, venting his volcanic, spoilt-brat spleen on some bewildered apprentice working on his dreadful campaign: “Why didn’t we think of that, do I always have to do everything around here?” The enraged Trump — as he always is — will ask, referring to the suggestion made by British Home Secretary Amber Rudd that British businesses be obliged to reveal how many foreign workers they employ.

The proposal was described by Rudd as a key plank in the Tory plan to reduce migration and encourage businesses to hire British staff. As if to confirm that Ms Rudd’s proposal was not some black-shirted fantasy disinterred from Britain’s previous excesses, Prime Minster Theresa May outlined a vision for post exit Britain which would see a bigger role for the state in, among many things, controlling immigration — including immigration from the EU.

Neither clarified if this racial profiling would apply to people born in Commonwealth countries, the countries plundered by Britain for generations to feed their imperial pillaging (even if you’re not supposed to say that anymore) or just EU citizens or workers with other origins. Would it apply, say, to a nurse living in Donegal but working in Derry? Would it apply, say, to an Irishman serving in the British army? Or the tens of thousands of Commonwealth citizens sustaining Britain’s National Health Service? How might they react if the very welcome British citizens working in Ireland were parsed and coded in the same Orwellian way?