The idea that Europe is being ‘invaded’ by immigrants ought to be laughable... Yet is appears to be a successful electoral message. What should be the left’s answer ?
▻https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2018/03/08/thomas-jones/who-killed-idy-diene
"The left has nothing to gain from ‘taking immigration seriously’: as soon as you put immigration at the top of your list of problems to be dealt with, you’ve accepted the far-right’s terms of debate, which means they’ve already won. However ‘tough’ the left may try to get, the right can always get tougher. Promising ‘controls on immigration’ (as if they didn’t already exist) did nothing to help the British Labour Party in 2015; Jeremy Corbyn said before the election last year that he didn’t think immigration to the UK was too high, and that there were more important things to talk about. It didn’t hurt"
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