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Quite a few voters don't even seem to care that current immigration targets / controls are completely stupid. The Tories keep going on about this 100K a year net immigration, em, how? Why?
NHS nurses leaving due to Brexit? Woa, who cares, we will get other ones.
EU people and Brits leaving due to Brexit? Good riddance.
People outside the EU being exploited as the government changed the visa rules on them? Pfff who cares, they are not from here.The attitude of "its just foreigners" is rife atm in some groups and politics. So people simply don't care about it enough to punish the Conservative party. London (and also Belfast and a lot of NI actually) doesn't have this crappy attitude as a whole, but it's common in some parts of England
The DUP isn't great there either btw, they refused to help on EU citizen rights.
JWestland-
Just to lay out my bias upfront - I'm pro- immigration.
I agree the 100k target seems odd and arbitrary. But we've got to a point where it is an emotive issue. Having controls is something that resonates with people and has done for a while, dare I say it partly from the Blair years original management of the new European countries, and subsequent resource management.
Moreover this is an ongoing, cross party issue (just chat to anyone about asylum cases under Jacqui Smith's tenure).
hugo7
At any other time I'd be impressed if Rudd survives. The number of fuck ups combined with the misstatements/lies and subsequent backtracking is outstanding.
At the moment though?
Is anyone more up on the internal dynamics of the Conservative Party right now? What sway Rudd holds or whether May needs her support, etc?
There's also the broader point which is does anyone really care if there were illegal immigration targets. It hardly seems like an issue that's going to vex voters.