In Australia stanno spuntando striscioni che chiedono ai lavoratori edili irlandesi di tornare a casa

Return to what exactly, bidding against half the world just to try and own a home in the same region your parents and grandparents lived in?

The Irish in Australian will scorn this. They know what it’s like back home. If we want them back we need to offer guaranteed housing and generous employment conditions (and even then they’re probably better off where they are). The problem is we’ve waited till there is literally no spare capacity in the system to be able to do anything like that.

Also: ‘You built Sydney’. That’s going to rub some people up the wrong way. It comes very close to the divisive rhetoric in the UK claiming that the Windrush generation rebuilt Britain after the war.

Yeah come home, no where to live, your car/van insurance will be extortionate as you’ve had no policy for over 2 years, everything is twice as expensive as when you left and petty crime and drugs are out of control.