The Maildian

I know it is the silly season but this takes the proverbial.

The Graun led today (yes, led) on a big story about how the NHS will collapse if the EU employees go home. This is the prediction of a thinktank the IPPR,describing itself as 'progressive'.There is no actual evidence that anyone wants to go home and join a supposed brain drain from the UK post-Brexit (some data comes out today,but el Gruniado can't wait and it might not support them),but there are fears. Quite the most amazing sentence says that: 

While the IPPR says their deportation is ultimately unlikely, the lack of official reassurance is already having a chilling effect on those seeking jobs, housing, bank loans or making other long-term commitments.

Deportation! Queues of medics and nurses carrying only one suitcase waiting in transit camps! It is only 'unlikely' say the IPPR, and people are still anxious. I wonder why. Classic Daily Mail stuff, but from 'progressives'

Meanwhile, they could apply for British citizenship, I suppose, but the IPPR thinks the fee of £1200 might be deterring people from doing so, so they advocate its abolition for the skilled, and a loan to pay it for the unskilled. Presumably everything else in the process, like the citizenship test, is OK.

Then, in the same story, a flip-flop, or, as the Guardian  might call it 'balance'. I'm not really complaining -- at least it is not full on ReMail.

It turns out that:

The government’s outgoing chief advisor on migration, Prof David Metcalf, also called for a much stronger enforcement of minimum labour standards in the UK to ensure the country’s flexible labour market prevents undercutting by foreign workers and boosts the welfare of British residents.

It seems Metcalf blames local employers for not investing in training, for the most skilled jobs in Science or IT, meaning that they choose to rely on migrants , and that:

...while low-skilled migration benefited labour-intensive British employers and most such migrants, they also exerted a downward pressure on the pay of low-skilled workers and – in the worst examples – serious exploitation of migrant, and possibly UK, labour... Incomplete supervision holds for the national minimum wage, labour gangs (particularly in horticulture) and employment agencies for migrants.

Finally, Marina Hyde writes her usual (see this one for example) spiky column about the Olympics , especially about the solemn luvvie stuff about we must all 'learn' from it (that hard work pays off etc) --but then the scepticism vanishes when we turn to Brexit. She chides Leave.EU for trying to capitalise on sporting success (bit late -- all politicians have done that) to show how Britain is great and strong outside the EU etc,and suggests they have somehow deliberately left out black athletes in their videos.The old racist card again.

Marina is superb at pointing out substantial abuses of power by unelected mutlinational corporates like FIFA and the IOC, but sees only sweetness and light with EU multinational corporates