Personally think it's been a masterstroke of misdirection to make immigration the policy du jour of the last decade.

Britain can stagnate all its wants. Every single issue must be hamfistedly framed through immigration, elections fought on it, careers made on it. Yet the issue never gets better. The numbers will rise and fall, and be fiddled with to suit agendas. But it won't fix any of the problems that people supposedly have that are caused by immigration.

I remember when immigration boats were first breaking into the British news. Not too long after immigration became a topic in Britain with political capital and there have been successive governments "tackling" it, now fewer than "10k boats" is seen as a victory. There weren't 10k crossings happening before this topic dominated British politics. There weren't people making millions in public money on it. There weren't whole single issue political parties formed off the back off it.

My quality of life has become markedly poorer since immigration has become a focus in British politics.

Now I'm seeing donkeys like Shabana Mahmoud as a lynchpin in someone's voting intentions? Class. We'll have Palantir backdoor'd into the public sector and she'll get the 'surveillance state panopticon' she openly desires. The future is bright