#aoc is a puppet, chosen in a nationwide search by the Justice Democrats (which to me, appears to be a front for the CIA or the #ProgressivePolicyInstitute).
Their signature move is to refer to Single Payer as “Universal Healthcare” to confuse people into doubling down on healthcare profiteering or RomneyCare 2.0.
The very second she got elected, she walked back her characterization of what is happening in Palestine as a genocide.
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Although I am not in favour of a completely open borders policy for the UK, the currently crystalizing "wisdom" on the British centre left, expressed in the Progressive Policy Institute's Claire Ainsley's "A Progressive Future Depends on National Identity", seems wrong to me for a number of reasons.
I suspect that decrying a “one-nation experiment in open borders” that never actually existed in an attempt to defang Reform UK is not going to work. Trying to outbid Farage and his gang on this issue is futile, as they will put forward proposals that even Starmer and his cabinet will not be able to stomach; the result will be to convince voters that a common sense consensus on the need to restrict immigration further exists, and that the only disagreement concerns the harshness of the restrictions to be adopted; Labour cannot "win" this battle.
Progressive restrictionists like Ainsley will attempt to counter my claim by pointing to the apparent success of Denmark's Social Democrat prime minister Mette Frederiksen in curbing the gains of the the right populist party there by adopting more restrictive measures.
I am not sufficiently informed about Danish politics to know if this political victory is secure in the long term or entirely explicable by Frederiksen's hard line on immigration. I do know that the political culture of Denmark differs from that of the UK, so that hoping for a simple transfer of political cause and effect is ill advised.
Besides the advisability or otherwise in electoral terms of adopting more restrictive immigration policies, the economic prudence of such measures must be questioned. Arguments that their adoption could stifle growth cannot be dismissed.
These questions of electoral advantage and economic policy should not be the only considerations, since....
#Immigration #UKPolitics #Politics #ClaireAinsley #ProgressivePolicyInstitute #PPI #Denmark #MetteFrederiksen #SocialDemocrats #Labour
When Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain stepped before a lectern at 10 Downing Street last month, he made clear how misguided he thought the country’s immigration policies had been. He described its recent approach as a “one-nation experiment in open borders” that Britons never voted for. In its place, he announced a slew of […]
Meanwhile, ex-#NAACP director (and #NoLabels co-chair) #BenjaminChavis has used his position atop the #NationalNewspaperPublishersAssociation to publish op-eds against the IRS #DirectFile program, citing the #ProgressivePolicyInstitute, a pro-business thinktank that Intuit's internal documents describe as part of its "coalition":
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6483061-Intuit-TurboTax-2014-15-Encroachment-Strategy.html
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