More on what, in certain circles, remain the unlearned lessons of the General Election in relation to immigration.
Not only did UKIP crash and burn, so that many a motorcycle now has more seats than that party even nominally possesses, but Ed Miliband's Labour gave more of an (old-fashioned trade union) immigration restrictionist message than the Conservatives did.
The victorious party is about to be led by either George Osborne or Boris Johnson, both of whom are uncompromising neoliberals to whom the free movement of people is as important as the free movement of capital, and one of whom has won the London Mayorality twice in the last seven years.
Such, moreover, is also the position of the only MP to have been elected under the UKIP banner. Immigration controls are no more acceptable to him than are capital controls, which are not.
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