And the govt keeps pushing out policies & messages to prove how uselessly TOUGH they are, which keeps the issue salient, keeps people thinking “this sounds like a big problem for the country”

So, with PLUMMETING immigration, people still think it’s rising.

Insane.

The takeaway:

👉 Accommodating the radical right on immigration doesn’t win back voters.
👉 It alienates the progressive base.
👉 And it raises the salience of the very issue the radical right owns.
In short: it’s electoral self-harm.

Labour is now undeniably, and deliberately, stoking division, hate and racial tensions. Absolutely any attacks can be laid at this government's door at this point. They have decided to incite the far right instead of combatting it, and there is no defence for that in any realm of reality.