Lord David Frost of Allenton, a senior fellow at the think tank Policy Exchange, former Brexit negotiator and political commentator has an interesting early assessment of Rishi Sunak’s government. The article by Lord Frost that will be published in today’s Daily Telegraph states that Mr Sunak has got off to a reasonable start and has tried in the early days of his premiership to bring all wings of the Conservative Party together.
However Lord Frost has issued a warning to the Tories that they need to get a grip on immigration and the PM needs to face down the open borders fanatics in his own party. Below are screenshots from Lord Frost’s Twitter feed of part of the Telegraph article.
I tend to believe that Lord Frost is correct here. If the PM allows the new Home Secretary to carry out plans to restrict migration and remove those who should not be here then the Tories will get a boost at the polling station. If the open borders obsessives in the Tories succeed in defenestrating the Home Secretary or clamping restrictions on her then any statements that she makes about stopping excessive or unwanted migration will be seen by the voters as yet more empty words and the Tory vote will suffer.
I do admire the thread of optimism that runs through many of your posting but I believe the great days of the Tory party are well and truly over. I suggest they will produce a great deal of hot air telling the voters what they think they want to hear while actually doing nothing. In many ways the UK now closely resembles the old Soviet Union. We can all see what is really happening as the country goes to the dogs but the government propaganda tells us everything is really great and we shouldn’t believe the evidence of your own eye’s.
There is a way back for the Tories which might involve recognising that Britons do seem to want govts that are centre left economically but centre right / right socially. However none of this would work unless they get to grips with one of the big issues that bother Britons today which is migration. We’ve been let down so many times by Tories and their promises about migration. They’ve bullshitted the people and unless they bring migrant numbers down and remove the undesirables who have no right or who have forefieted their right to be here I can’t see them being trusted next time.
Good article and good comments.
But I think people (at least the ones I speak to) are mostly bothered by ILLEGAL immigration, what are sometimes termed the “gimmegrants” who are called “refugees” by Leftists, but who are so-called economic migrants and illegal aliens; most of whom can offer absolutely nothing to the Country except in utterly non-skilled labour. Many cannot speak English functionally and have a very poor education.
Studies in other Countries (German and/or Sweden for example, if I recall correctly) showed that even several years after arrival they were still “economically inactive” and thus a drain on the public purse.
I have no problem with high-skilled highly educated immigrants coming in to fill vacancies, although I will caveat that by saying that every time I hear a business man lamenting the fact that s/he can’t get the skilled people they need I feel like screaming at them “How many are you training?”. And I am sure that if the question were asked the response would be a blank look.
The notion, seemingly widely held by British industry, that skilled people grow on trees is beyond risible and British industry needs to be told in no uncertain terms that it will get the skills it needs if it trains the skills it needs.