See I fundamentally disagree with almost every word of that haha.
You seem to be changing the goalposts. The initial dispute was about Blair's supposed anti-immigrant electioneering.
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The tabloids would say "you're soft on immigrants, you love forrins" and Blair would go "no we're not see" and open Yarl's Wood.
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But this is just normal electioneering. It's hardly anti-immigrant scaremongering, which is what I'm disputing.
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All these things were part of the same package.
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This flies in the face of your claims: http://www.civitas.org.uk/content/files/BrowneEconomicsImmigration.pdf …
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Blair's government restricted migrant and asylum seeker rights throughout his term. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/19/contents …
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You've made good points but your thesis, that Blair was an anti-immigrant scaremonger, is inaccurate. http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/immigration-legacy-tony-blair …
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It wasn't simply about "electioneering" - it was a continuous game.
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