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.
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.