Imagine saying “public trust has been shattered” without saying who shattered it: years of scapegoating and right-wing media bile.
Immigrants didn’t break the system.
You fix it by backing them, not sidelining them.
#ImmigrationDebate #PolicyConcerns #IslandOfStrangers #CareSectorCrisis #ImmigrationPolicy #CitizenshipDebate
Starmer’s message to migrants: "Learn perfect English, pay more, and don’t stay long."
To businesses: "Find Brits to do the jobs we’ve underpaid for years."
To the far right: "Please like us now?"
Britain deserves better.
#Labour #Starmer #RefugeesWelcome #LabourValues #PolicyConcerns #LabourDrift #ReformRise
https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/05/12/britain-has-had-it-with-mass-immigration
Britain has had it with mass immigration

But immigrants might not have had it with Britain

The Economist
Labour thinks the key to power is pandering to anti-immigrant sentiment. Meanwhile, the NHS, construction, and hospitality rely on migrant workers to function. This isn’t “realism”—it’s cowardice dressed as strategy. #LabourValues #PolicyConcerns #LabourDrift #ReformRise
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/06/the-guardian-view-on-labours-drift-and-tory-collapse-reform-fills-a-vacuum-they-created
The Guardian view on Labour’s drift and Tory collapse: Reform fills a vacuum they created

Editorial: Faragism’s rise isn’t a surge of enthusiasm – it’s a symptom of exhaustion with two parties failing to offer vision, justice or renewal

The Guardian
Labour thinks the key to power is pandering to anti-immigrant sentiment. Meanwhile, the NHS, construction, and hospitality rely on migrant workers to function. This isn’t “realism”—it’s cowardice dressed as strategy. #LabourValues #PolicyConcerns #LabourDrift #ReformRise
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/may/12/immigration-keir-starmer-labour-reform-visa-foreign-workers-uk-politics-latest-live-news
Labour MP says Starmer’s ‘island of strangers’ warning over immigration mimics scaremongering of far right – as it happened

PM unveils new policies meant to drive down net migration by end of this parliament

the Guardian
@lyndamerry484 Still, no Labour will make a positive case for rejoining or even mention the damage done by #Brexit. SO I disagree that Labour will lead on Brexit. I expect Tories will move sooner than Starmer... #LabourValues #PolicyConcerns #LabourDrift #ReformRise #LabourPolicyShift #ImmigrationDebate #LabourLosesTouch