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
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-createdThe 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
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-newsLabour 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
@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 Starmer's strategy: alienate the base, appease no one.
Reform UK surges, and Labour's identity crisis deepens.
Is this the change we voted for?
#LabourDrift #ReformRise https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/06/labour-local-communities-nigel-farageThe lesson for Labour? Until it can improve local lives and stop fearing Farage, more losses are coming
Rapid, highly visible action in communities and a forthright attack on the new right – that is what’s needed now, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
Julian D 🏳️🌈 #FBPE #RejoinEU
