Comment by ta1243
3 days ago
They should be happy. But the promised utopia didn't arrive, so now Farage is blaming the next thing, "just get rid of the 30k boat arrivals and things will be great".
(There's 900k arriving each year on visas, which if you are concerned with immigration is a far larger number, but that is harder for Farage to argue against)
Once the boats are all blasted to bits or whatever, and things still don't get better, who will be the next person to blame.
Immigration has been a big issue for a very long time and it partly caused the Brexit vote.
To me your reply exemplifies my previous point: You dismiss those concerns. This is what happened with Brexit and this is what has been happening for a long time over immigration. This can only end badly.
> There's 900k arriving each year on visas, which if you are concerned with immigration is a far larger number, but that is harder for Farage to argue against
They argue against the high level of immigration legal or illegal. Of course illegal immigration is an easy topic handed to them on a plate by successive governments since it is very visible and very little is done against it.
If they were spending their effort arguing against 95% of immigration, which are people arriving at Heathrow, then I'd be more sympathetic.
People voted for brexit was all about stopping Iraq and Turkey from sending millions of people to the UK. -- I remember the leaflet, I remember the voxpop of people saying "Europe, fair enough, but not from Africa, Syria etc".
People voted for Brexit to stop immigration. It decreased European immigration, but more than replaced it with African and Middle Eastern immigration) because they believed that being in the EU meant. This was inevitable.
They were wrong based on their own beliefs, and its difficult to argue against that viewpoint.
> They argue against the high level of immigration legal or illegal. Of course illegal immigration is an easy topic handed to them on a plate by successive governments since it is very visible and very little is done against it.
One major policy was implemented which massively increased immigration, illegal or not, was Brexit. Farage's flagship policy.
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