Even if you think it's the right message, Starmer can't deliver it authentically because it's obviously not what he - or almost anyone else in Labour think.
They also spent the last 5 years calling the Tories madly right wing.
They also spent the last 5 years calling the Tories madly right wing.
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Wow - Starmer rhetoric on Tory immigration policy is quite something: "A one nation experiment in open borders".
McSweeney campaign mode is go.
McSweeney campaign mode is go.
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They did but that's a) not the same as being one nation or having an open borders policy and b) something Labour risk doing as well by making these kinds of statement.
Also anyone who knows what one nation means thinks it's a broadly good thing. He doesn't want us to be one nation?
I do wonder if OBR having taken into account about that migration wave in public finance forecasts with ILR?
Starmer knows that the UK needs more immigration not less.
He should be championing that not parroting right wing talking points to try to win over Reform voters.
Whether he makes that, let alone whether it sticks, is another thing.
Really not sure what the strategy of it is (yet, anyway)
Don’t know who they’re trying to impress, but they’re alienating a lot of people who wanted to see the vicious rhetoric on immigration toned down. Just want them to get on with sorting out the mess.
This is pure Reform/Tory stuff.
Give people a choice between Starmer and Farage - it could win back disillusioned Lab voters.
The only other option is to either go for no rhetoric and quietly reduce the numbers, which Reform will just ignore and lie about, or Starmer does nothing and only increases the share of Reform vote that way.
The ones that still do believe it probably believe in National Front style repatriation and there's always going to be a sect of society that thinks that way.
The whole paradigm of western civilization has devolved into a self-serving, defunct gravy train.
Or maybe the Labour leadership are just daft.
Who knows?
Unbrexit = controlled migration?
Ignore the issue and increase the Reform vote?
OR
Reduce numbers "quietly" and give Reform headroom to poster about "Starmer didn't SAY he is reducing immigration so therefore it's not happening"
The only way you tackle this is deal with it head on.
And considering how people in America voted for Trump despite the economy being better under Biden than any other western country post COVID, it doesn't seem to matter all that much.
It's going to be be next year before we know if Labour policy is working to get it down. NOT a few months
Why?