In a sense, no. However, to do so at a time when the country desperately needs care workers and hospitality workers amongst others, is only to appease potential Reform voters. Also, the language used was totally abhorrent and unnecessary and can only embolden racists.

We will continue to campaign against racism whether it comes from REFORM UK, what is left of the Tory Party or when it is pushed by the leader of the Labour Party.
Migrants Welcome. Racists Out.
Stand Up to Racism North East and Newcastle Unites 14/05/2025.

And it is common decency and a commitment to fighting racism that will defeat the threat of Reform UK – not pandering to their poison.

It was the common decency of people in Newcastle and many places around the country who came together last August, when violent racists threatened to attack refugees and migrants, and to fire-bomb mosques.

has left the richest 1% of the UK holding the same amount of wealth as 80% of the population.

Migrants built our society and continue to maintain our NHS and our public services. He chose to focus on care workers, whose only “crime” is to provide the care for 140,000 residents of care homes. What has done “incalculable” damage to the UK is 46 years of neo-liberal economics which

island of strangers not a nation that walks forward together”.
The Uk is not an island of strangers – and in the North East we know this whenever we walk down the street, and whenever we go into our schools and hospitals

of the racist myths that drive racist and far-right parties. It could easily have come out of the mouth of Nigel Farage or Suella Braverman.

Stand Up to Racism North East (SUTRNE)and Newcastle Unites (NU) condemn Keir Starmer for his attack on migrants and his endorsement of far-right lies about migration. His speech introducing his government’s new immigration white paper at Downing Street on Monday, 12 May 2025 was a full-on embrace