‘Two-tier’: UK treats far-right attacks less harshly than Islamist violence, says thinktank

No.

The idea that the unions would legitimately oppose immigration is nonsense. Economic analysis of the actual impact of immigration has consistently shown that immigration has little-to-no negative impact on the incomes of native workers - immigrants don't undercut the wages of native workers so the unions shouldn't be worried about them.

A large part of that is because of the 'lump of labour' fallacy. Unthoughtful people assume there's a fixed number of jobs to be filled, but the reality is that immigrants don't just fill jobs but also create jobs through their own demand for goods and services. But there are other factors too like entrepreneurialism and business start ups - immigrants, as evidenced by them being part of the small subset of people who are prepared to pack up their lives and move to another country, tend to be more entrepreneurial than the general population in either their home or host countries. Some of our biggest high street names like Tesco and M&S have immigrant origins.

The small caveat to this is that immigration in recent decades has been shown to have a tiny negative impact on the incomes of the lowest paid 20% of the population (of about -0.5%) but this is dwarfed by the positive impact it has on those further up the income spectrum (e.g. +1.7% for the richest 10%). Obviously +1.7% of a very rich person's income is a lot more than -0.5% of a poor person's income. So if the unions are rational and actually want to improve the lot of the poorest in society then they should be campaigning for a lot more immigration and a very small increase in taxes on the richest to fund redistribution of this income, which will more than compensate the poorest for the fraction of a percentage point of lost income from over two decades worth of immigration.

I'm sorry, but you are completely wrong to think that it is only right wing racists that want strong controls on immigration.

Nope. Or, if you want more details, it would be fascists, nazis, racists and the rest of the far right - but that is like arguing which shit is more brown.

The Unions are directly concerned as it removes a bargaining chip they have with companies over unskilled labour

Complete rubbish.

The power of the union breaks down when there is basically unfettered access to larger pools of people

Even bigger rubbish. Have you ever heard about collective agreements?

who don't know their employment rights as they aren't from the UK

You are a patronising prick. According to you people who came from the outside don't know their rights but these in the UK do? I worked with both and it is often other way around - but then I don't wear racist lenses 🙄

There is a reason that Corbyn was pro-Brexit

Corbyn wasn't pro Brexit.

Your entire argument is built with lies and more lies.

i'm sure the far-right rioters are concerned mainly with the detailed cost-benefit analysis of how current and future immigration strategy could impact the uk's fiscal outlook, and not with anything else at all

Immigration is benefiting the UK so no, there is no reason to be "concerned". I accept that there may be very specific situations for certain groups, but it is still benefiting the public as a whole.

Unless someone "concerned about immigration" is also concerned about too many white babies being born, they are a racist.

EXACTLY.