Election Year or Fear!

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Two in a row but from different perspectives. I was chatting to my son yesterday and the question of illegal immigration came up and I was amazed to hear that he and the vast majority of his mates were in favour of "sink the boats" (in the wider sense) of the expression ie control/repatriate/get rid etc. not in an EDL "burn em out" sort of way.

Now he and again most of his mates are graduates in their mid 20's, not under threat for their jobs from these people and the majority are/were (were being in the last 6 months) Starmer supporting labour voters and in my son's case at least, a Corbyn voter before that.

So he isn’t really in favour of the ‘sink the boats’ mentality is he? He’s concerned about the level of illegal immigration as I’d suggest many, including Swale and I are. At no time have I ever suggested that it isn’t a complex and significant problem which needs to be addressed via ‘joined up’ international thought. We just tend to express ourselves rather more compassionately than you and TTR.

P.S. At the most recent by-election in Scotland, Farage’s ReformUK and the ‘sink the boats’ crew won 26.1% of the vote. That means that 73.9% rejected their stance.