‘End free movement NOW’ Union boss says EU migration only helps rich to hire cheap nannies.
A TOP union figure has tonight launched an extraordinary attack on EU free movement rules, saying Britain’s working classes have been betrayed so rich establishment figures can hire cheap nannies and butlers. In an eviscerating assessment of successive governments’ approach to border control, Gerard Coyne argued mass migration has helped widen inequality between the haves and have-nots in broken Britain.
He tore into the establishment’s claims that Brexit will bring economic disaster, saying Britain will prosper and flourish outside the EU and should leave the single market. And in a series of devastating remarks he said the rich and powerful wanted to keep freedom of movement because it allowed them to hire cheap nannies and cleaners whilst watering down the wages of British workers.
His jaw-dropping outburst will heap huge pressure on Theresa May to prioritise regaining control of immigration over single market access in the upcoming Brexit negotiations. Mr Coyne, who is battling to become the next leader of the Unite union, warned that ordinary workers will feel “betrayed” and angry if the PM caves into Brussels over free movement.
His comments, to be made in a speech to union activists in Birmingham tomorrow, place him squarely at odds with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who has repeatedly refused to consider any change to EU migration rules.
Unite is Labour’s biggest financial backer, and if Mr Coyne succeeds in unseating current chief Len McCluskey he would make the party leader’s position increasingly untenable.
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