Immigration, like the national debt, has been an
objective failure of this Government compared to the record of its predecessor.
Not even the Greens are going into this Election opposed to "controls on immigration". I am not aware of any country that has ever had no such controls.
(Nor, by the way, is it the case that EU membership, for all its other faults, necessitates granting free entry to all EU citizens. The United Kingdom's unusually, but not absolutely, lax approach to this is precisely that, and it is entirely by our own choice.)
Today, even Peter Hitchens pretty much says "Vote Labour", by saying that that is what he will do, if he votes at all.
And the comments under Fraser Nelson's post on today's four-point Labour lead are just hilarious. They know that it is now or never if they are going to win another overall majority. So they know that they are never going to do so. Ever. It's all over.
You were right about the emergence of paleo-Dems and you are right about the emergence of paleo-Labour, now we just need our Jim Webb in a couple of electoral cycles' time.
ReplyDeleteIt is amazing how many people don't know that, we don't have to let in everyone from the EU and we don't. No member state does and most are stricter about each other's than we are, stricter about ours than we are about theirs. People who think they can just walk into any other EU country should try it and see what happens.
ReplyDeleteNor, by the way, is it the case that EU membership, for all its other faults, necessitates granting free entry to all EU citizens. The United Kingdom's unusually, but not absolutely, lax approach to this is precisely that, and it is entirely by our own choice.
ReplyDeleteExactly. To lift the restriction on Romanians and Bulgarians as this government did, there had to be a restriction in the first place, years after they had joined the EU. There was because the former Labour government put it there.
Most existing EU members have been far more stringent on East Europeans and still are, long after Eastern Europe came into the EU. It is each state's choice.