But... what sort of strategy would that be? If the main "legitimate concern" is that asylum seekers are hosted in hotels... why is the Home office adding that foreigners with no title to be in the UK are "roaming OUR streets"? Those failed asylum seeker and foreign people who have served their
sentence were clearly under the responsibility of the Home office itself so... how were they left 'roaming'? This is so sick, so dangerous.
The government’s ‘strategy’ is for Labour to ‘be’ the Reform Party, in their hope that voters get enough of a Reform Party fix to not vote for the actual Reform Party in 2029. Obviously there are enormous problems with this plan.
Such as convincing a voting bloc - who want public executions of Labour party members - into voting for Labour.
I wish I understood, obviously I’m not a massive political genius like the Labour leadership, but at some level they think it’s advantageous to associate themselves with the “concerns” of the far right, or at least disadvantageous to contradict them
What really worries me is that ordinary prejudice, plain incompetence and unwarranted self-confidence in the leadership of Labour could be enough to lead to violent attacks towards people who "look foreign" and downtrodden.
I’m afraid I agree that that seems pretty inevitable
As incompetent and delusional as I think they are, I don't believe that they're stupid enough not to know that this hurts them in the next election. It can only be that the cruelty is the point. That turning the UK into a fascist hellhole is worth being a one-term government for
The Labour right were already very, very racist during the Blair years (remember all the War on Terror shenanigans), and have only grown more insular, radical, and just plain weird since then.
They saw their purpose for years as containing the left, not representing them, and the Corbyn years cooked their brains even more completely, so we're seeing the rare spectacle of an elected government that genuinely, deeply hates the people who elected them.