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Nick Robinson. A pretty good (albeit conservative) BBC political commentator who has been around for a long time. Given the BBC's leftist tendencies and usually positive stance on immigration I don't really see anything wrong with reporting on what is a live political issue. For all its faults I think we are very luckily to have the BBC and I have always been happy to pay my Licence Fee.
There's nothing wrong with getting angry about political parties raising the issue to score political points in the (vain) hope that it will win them votes in the run up to the election. But getting angry about the BBC reporting on the topic is misdirected. Also I think you are missing the point on the immigration debate, no credible person proposes that you have zero immigration (not even Farage), the question is how you manage it as a policy. Do you only allow people you “need”, do you prioritise speaking English, do you believe that free movement of people is a right, do you believe that there should be firm caps on how long people can stay, entitlements to benefit, etc?
Personally, I don’t think shutting down debate is ever a good thing. According to that programme the majority of the population think 1/3 of the UK are immigrants vs the reality of c.13%. Surely you are better off opening debate and informing people of the true facts and countering arguments to get them on board rather than calling them stupid and/or prejudice... which seems to be the usual route.... and is one of the main points the programme makes.