This is enormously important for the future of the country, if we hand out ILR to those 2-3 million people who will become eligible for it over the next five years on the same automatic terms as in the past, it will fracture the country and we’ll fall further into a future of sectarian populism, Greens on the one hand and Reform on the other, the Trumpian world where there is continual culture war between left and right and no systematic problems are ever confronted. This is actually why a lot of third world countries don’t function, in a country like Kenya for example, the culture and the political parties are sectarian and there is never enough consensus to really figure out problems and fix them.
If the centre is to hold it has to protect that multiracial common culture which exists, by not forcing through an extraordinary and unprecendented population level change and the cultural consequences which follow from it. We had more population growth in three years under Boris than in the 1980s and 90s combined, a 4% increase in population in three years, and more than that in some parts of the country.
I really do give Labour credit for this, especially Mahmood and Starmer.
They’re putting their political careers on the line to fix the extraordinary clusterfuck created by Boris Johnson’s stratospheric incompetence and fecklessness.
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This is enormously important for the future of the country, if we hand out ILR to those 2-3 million people who will become eligible for it over the next five years on the same automatic terms as in the past, it will fracture the country and we’ll fall further into a future of sectarian populism, Greens on the one hand and Reform on the other, the Trumpian world where there is continual culture war between left and right and no systematic problems are ever confronted. This is actually why a lot of third world countries don’t function, in a country like Kenya for example, the culture and the political parties are sectarian and there is never enough consensus to really figure out problems and fix them.
If the centre is to hold it has to protect that multiracial common culture which exists, by not forcing through an extraordinary and unprecendented population level change and the cultural consequences which follow from it. We had more population growth in three years under Boris than in the 1980s and 90s combined, a 4% increase in population in three years, and more than that in some parts of the country.
I really do give Labour credit for this, especially Mahmood and Starmer.
They’re putting their political careers on the line to fix the extraordinary clusterfuck created by Boris Johnson’s stratospheric incompetence and fecklessness.
Life comes at you fast I suppose – https://x.com/ShabanaMahmood/status/642995785869721600