08-06-2024, 08:16 AM in response to #52117
Baldman Wrote: I think the window for Banks and Farage was created by years and years of people labelling as racist anyone who didn’t embrace the crazy mass immigration policies of the last 20 years.
It’s not that these are ideal people. It’s that in a supposed democracy they were the only ones representing the views of a large chunk of the population.
Of course people haven't been listened to on immigration, and that's why these megalomaniac gobshites picked it up - they don't actually care about it. Economic right-wingers have always been able to talk out of both sides of their mouth about large-scale immigration whilst getting all the benefits from it.
The "EVERYONE WAS LABELLED AS RACIST IF THEY TALKED ABOUT IMMIGRATION" thing is a myth though, unless you never read a newspaper or listened to a debate during all that time - it's a central plank of the persecution complex these dickheads trade on.