Seizing asylum seekers valuables while ignoring public calls for a wealth tax on billionaires is a question Labour is failing to answer. Right, so the government says it can’t possibly tax billionaires — too complicated, too risky, they might leave, too upsetting for the people who actually matter — but it can take jewellery off an asylum seeker without breaking a sweat in exchange for letting them stay, but they are then in for a 20 year wait if they want to stay for good, offering up whatever baubles they managed to save, for no security at all. And they say that with a straight face, as if the public can’t see the difference between a family fleeing war with the last valuables they own and someone sitting on eight-figure assets that have doubled over the last decade. Well luckily MSM so-called journalists are falling over themselves in support of course. They call it “contribution”. They call it “fairness”. They call it “responsibility”. What it really is, is a government testing how much cruelty, how much evil in fact, it can get away with at the bottom of society while reassuring the people at the top that nothing will ever be asked of them. And if you think that logic stops with refugees, you haven’t been paying attention. Ordinary working class people have far more in common with these refugees than billionaires, this is who Labour really serve and if they thought they could get away with it with us, they would. So its time we stopped cheering this nonsense and saw it for what is – class war, by the party supposedly set up for us, that no longer fits that remit. Right, so the government has reached the point where it is preparing to take jewellery and other valuables off people seeking asylum in the United Kingdom, and when you look at that alongside its refusal to take anything meaningful from the billionaire class, a wealth tax, the whole thing stops being an immigration story and starts revealing something much clearer about how power operates now. Because when a government draws a line like that, it isn’t fumbling. It isn’t confused. It is announcing its loyalties. It is setting out who the state exists to protect and who the state exists to extract from. And when you have a policy designed to take possessions from traumatised families at the very same time that the wealthiest people in the country are held harmless and untouched, the story becomes unavoidable even if every newspaper in the country tries to steer your eyes anywhere else. So let’s say plainly what is happening.