I'm a bit blindsided by this policy.
It's not that I disagree with the strategy, it's that I can't see the strategy
- you're amplifying the issue owned by the party you claim to be worried about
- with a policy that targets the thing immig-neg voters don't care about
- but your base does!
It's not that I disagree with the strategy, it's that I can't see the strategy
- you're amplifying the issue owned by the party you claim to be worried about
- with a policy that targets the thing immig-neg voters don't care about
- but your base does!
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Ian Dunt
Writing this with a heavy heart: the refugee citizenship ban is the single most unconscionable policy Labour has proposed since it entered power. It’s the moment that I felt my support for this administration begin to crumble inews.co.uk/opinion/colu...
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Setting aside that this seems like a highly predictable result ...
... what's the purpose of this policy? If you're not hoping to signal - to Reform-leaning voters, to imaginary-very-long-term-thinking refugees - what's the goal?
No impact on the voters it's supposed to placate, some impact on its own, huge long-term issues.
This Labour policy amplifies his position ... without challenging it.