I agree. The Tories take very small steps to achieve their aims, so the public excuse the little steps not looking back to see how far down the rabbit hole we've come in any direction. Boiling frog syndrome.
Why are you putting the onus on the Opposition to come up with a solution instead of looking into the detail of the scheme yourself. The Rwanda agreement, which hasn't happened because it breaks international law, involved sending just 200 immigrants in return for a few coming the other way.
It would be madness for labour to 'offer' any 'alternative' to the current tory plan to burn the foringers. All they should be doing now is asking how the government's latest wheeze (sorry, carefully considered strategy) is going to achieve anything. It is not the job of the opposition to publish an alternative to every gimcrack tin-pot bit of dog-whistling a failing government floats in a desperate attempt to save its sorry arse.
22 months to go !
They’re not my C2s
If they do not offer credible solutions to political problems, after the next election they will still be the opposition
I genuinely hope that is not wishful thinking, but listening to Yvette Cooper doing the rounds today it looks like the Labour Party will be dusting off the 2015 Controls on Immigration mugs for the next election campaign. Just focusing on the workability of the scheme without addressing the moral vacuum that lies behind it is weak, and they should be embarrassed.
Language, family and culture will be huge parts of it.
opposition should be ready to form a government and have at least a notion of policy in all areas. otherwise we end up with opposing for the sake of it. on this specific policy, following the view the government are trying to stitch up oppostion to make them look like they dont have an answer, best way to shoot that fox is to have one. eitherway i'd certainly expect a grown up conversation before the election.
Your first point explains why I disagree with your second. They were elected by winning seats in working class areas. They did this by focusing on the EU and immigration as the major problems for those communities. The real reasons they are not thriving are far more to do with the underinvestment and demise of manufacturing industry. They cannot / will not do anything to respond to those challenges because the potential solutions are either too expensive, or too Keynesian to fit their free market ideology. In those circumstances, they can't admit their impotency, so they need a convincing alternative explanation. Putting the blame on 'others' is a long established tactic of right wing populist politicians. Proposing seemingly simple solutions to very complex problems is another.
I can only think that it is because it is common knowledge that if you can get to the UK you get a house, car and money to live on without having to work. Everyone knows that. It is regularly in the Daily Mail etc.
Several reasons. France and other European countries take in more numbers of refugees than Britain, already, so comparatively speaking Britain takes in a miniscule number. See the chart. *
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English surely won't be their native language and I'm sure there will be very few cultural similarities between the UK and, say, Albania.
I find your position on this slightly crazy. You are essentially saying that a government (ie: the one we have now) can be utterly abject and awful, and they'll get in again if the opposition don't share very workable plans to lots of the problems, prior to the election. And yet the government that has proven for years that it is useless, will be re-elected?
