Keir Starmer has finally realised that he needs to tackle rising immigration. The Prime Minister said yesterday that Britain risks becoming an ‘island of strangers’ if nothing is done. Predictably, his speech has gone down badly with the usual suspects.
There may be a simple reason why some of Starmer’s critics will never see eye to eye with him on migration
There may be a simple reason why some of Starmer’s critics will never see eye to eye with him on migration: their main preoccupation appears not to be with different cultures or individuals. Rather, they seem to regard human beings as parts of a bigger, more important whole. These materialists see us as cogs in the machine.
This mentality afflicts materially-orientated people on both the left and right. People of this ilk, who understand society foremost as composed of physical objects, institutions and markets, have been out in force since Starmer made his speech.
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