Maybe. But then, sadly, the mainstream parties don’t appeal to these people so they turn to the racist ones.
A lot of this is down to piss poor messaging from governments going back to the fifties and sixties. None have properly welcomed immigration as a means to enriching society and boost economic growth. And over the past two or three decades they’ve done the opposite and allowed the sentiment of “they’re taking your jobs” or “they’re raping up your neighbourhood” run rampant.
Sack the entire shambles that is the Home Office. Sack the lot of them. Deliver a cogent policy for integration and immigration that makes sense to people. Put in the hard work to sell this to the electorate without easy buzz word spin. Actually have competent people processing visas and asylum claims. Build the f’ing infrastructure we need to thrive given increased population pressures. Oh and fuck David Lammy for no reason other than he’s a twat.
You’re spot on on messaging. Successive governments (and media) have taken the short term gains of tapping into anti-immigrant sentiment over the long term advantage of being honest about how we need immigration and how it affects the economy.
The papers and TV almost never bother to do their job of analysis and just reprint claims, so when the government says “we’re going to listen to what people want” without loudly defending the facts, the overton window creeps quite quickly.
Maybe. But then, sadly, the mainstream parties don’t appeal to these people so they turn to the racist ones.
A lot of this is down to piss poor messaging from governments going back to the fifties and sixties. None have properly welcomed immigration as a means to enriching society and boost economic growth. And over the past two or three decades they’ve done the opposite and allowed the sentiment of “they’re taking your jobs” or “they’re raping up your neighbourhood” run rampant.
Sack the entire shambles that is the Home Office. Sack the lot of them. Deliver a cogent policy for integration and immigration that makes sense to people. Put in the hard work to sell this to the electorate without easy buzz word spin. Actually have competent people processing visas and asylum claims. Build the f’ing infrastructure we need to thrive given increased population pressures. Oh and fuck David Lammy for no reason other than he’s a twat.
You’re spot on on messaging. Successive governments (and media) have taken the short term gains of tapping into anti-immigrant sentiment over the long term advantage of being honest about how we need immigration and how it affects the economy.
The papers and TV almost never bother to do their job of analysis and just reprint claims, so when the government says “we’re going to listen to what people want” without loudly defending the facts, the overton window creeps quite quickly.