This is what Farage, Reform and Brexit have done. This is where a very ugly obsession with immigration leads. To this. To “appalling levels of racism and unfair treatment.” To ordinary people being made miserable, day in, day out, at work. What a shameful place to be. www.tuc.org.uk/news/shockin...

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And then there’s the persistent dog-whistling. The brazen racism from Farage and the far right. The ugly link that is constantly made between ‘immigrant’ and ‘illegal’. And a small but loud minority have enjoyed that far too much and don’t want to put it back in the bottle.

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Same as Welfare/Benefits Fraud and Tax Fraud. Do a survey and the majority of people will say Welfare costs the country more. The reality is something very different.

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Dreaming of a world where they dedicate even a fraction of that time to investigating the dark and overseas money funding UK politics, think tanks and 'grass roots' movements.

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NB this is NOT a comment on the policy of TRYING to reduce immigration, which I think is an economically and societally disastrous idea. It is a comment on the gap between how effective the gov't has actually been at doing what most people seemed to want and the huge gap in their perception.

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