If there’s one thing that we have come to rely on when it comes to the Conservative Party is that they will betray both their voters and the public at large over matters pertaining to immigration. For election after election voters have plumped for the Conservative Party on the grounds that they would be better on the immigration issue than the Labour or Liberal Democrat Parties. We know that Labour and the Lib Dems are open borders enthusiasts therefore the Tories have looked like the better bet at General Election time.
Unfortunately or the Tories, the bait and switch gig that they’ve played with immigration might be up. Promises made by Rishi Sunak’s administration to crack down on migration both legal and illegal have been proven to be more than a little like pie crust, easily broken.
This failure to deal with Britain’s undoubted immigration problems might have been a surmountable one were it not for the massive levels of both legal and illegal immigration that Britain and Britons are suffering from and which the Tories were elected in part to solve. The commentator Patrick O’Flynn writing in the Spectator is in my view correct when he says that immigration might be the issue that sinks Sunak’s government and the Tory party in general. I’m seeing both online and in real life a lot of people who are getting angry with the Tories for their latest failure to control access to Britain. This anger could create a situation where Tory voters and those voters of other parties who loaned their vote to the Tories in 2019 either stay at home on election day or vote for a challenger party like Reform or the Social Democratic Party. Whether these votes for challenger parties morph into seats in the House of Commons remains to be seen but these votes will certainly be ones that the Tories could have had if they had done as they promised and controlled immigration better.
A vague undertaking from the Prime Minister about reducing immigration from the astronomical levels he has inherited isn’t going to cut the mustard given that it comes as an offer of recompense to voters who have been let down so often and for so long. It also came across as hugely under-powered, with the PM just not transmitting the persona of someone who is determined to significantly reduce the numbers of incomers.
He’ll simply have to do better and be more specific or a big chunk of the 2019 Conservative vote is going to sit on its hands come the 2024 general election.
I agree with Mr O’Flynn here. We got a promise to reduce immigration from its current horrifically high level to something more manageable, but this promise has not been kept. Worse than that, under Sunak the levels of illegal and legal migration is the highest its been.
The Tories have, for election after election, got away with gambling that electors will vote for them because of promises to reduce immigration, but that the electors will not punish them when it turns out that the party has lied and not just failed to keep immigration low but allowed it and encouraged it to grow. It looks like that the Tories have lied so much about migration that nobody with any political sense believes them anymore. The old trick of promising much but delivering absolutely nothing when it comes to immigration control is, as Mr O’Flynn said, not going to fly at the 2024 General Election.
I hear what Sunak promises. I believe the pitifully few promises he keeps.
Yes indeed. Sunak and other Tory leaders have promised much when it comes to migration control and delivered either nothing or worse, more open borders.
Sunak is under the thumb of the WEF (like many othe ‘young leader’ graduates of that awful organisation, Turdeau, Micron, the NZ horse-face, etc.) He does their bidding. Uncontrolled immigration is their policy.
We are truly fu**ed.
Yes but looking at it realistically Labour has currentĺy a massive surge with voting intentions against the Conservatives. Polls have also suggested that the cost of living crisis and secondly the NHS crisis will predominate over immigration policies as an electoral issue.
How ever bad the current government gets I can only think that Labour will be ten times worse, so why would I vote for them?
In other news, Mrs. Stonyground has been listening to the endless recorded messages on the landline while vainly attempting to book a doctor’s appointment. Getting pissed off she starts searching on the mobile phone for info about private health insurance. Turns out that it’s more affordable than expected and we are seriously discussing it. As I’ve mentioned here before, our local surgery is better than most.
Yes, I was not necessarily suggesting a vote for Labour, I was just pointing out that as the voting intentions stand at the moment immigration doesn’t appear to be the number one issue.
I’m also quite suprised at the apparent current swing to Labour. Could it be that voters just want any change and will give the Opposition the benefit of the doubt for a difference?
*surprised* – apologies for typo!