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"I believe in the Britain needs inward migration. And right now it should should honour its duty to tens of thousands of refugees. But we have to do something new and significant to rebuild consent for this — because the Brexit referendum has changed the atmosphere."
Good article. This is exactly it. It's all very well being right, having the moral high ground, but if the electorate disagrees with you, then your morals are worse than useless. Banging the same drum at people who don't agree alienates them further. I'm finding the polls really worrying.
Oddly, I saw Mason on question time and thought he came across as a bit of a showboating bully, and disagreed with him on almost everything.
William.
Meanwhile the Labour Party needs to work out how it responds to the views of it's traditional supporters to immigration, because ignorning them has failed.
Yup.