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>Sounding more like Tony Blair—who combined a tough line on asylum seekers with liberal policies towards immigrants—he struck a positive note on the latter, saying “we’ve always benefited from the talent, resilience, and enterprise of people who came here.”
>Much more of this, said much much more consistently, is required. The government needs to trumpet the U.K.’s success in managing high levels of immigration, both economically and socially.
Delusional.
>We have yet to hear a Cabinet Minister point out that migrants now fill one in five jobs in the U.K.; that they are more likely to be employed and less likely to claim benefits.
The old treat subsequent generations of immigrants as our problem tactic again.
>The government needs to argue that immigration, and its accompanying ethnic change, is something that Britain has both absorbed and benefited from over the last half-century.
I hope I have some popcorn in when they attempt this.
>Ultimately, diversity should be our greatest strength, and it is that argument that anti-immigration zealots fear most.
“Should be”
https://time.com/7312223/uk-immigration-debate-farage/