Ah well. At least you're not telling me to jump of a cliff. Which is something, I guess (on Twitter, at least).
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
New Labour directly - and I do mean this - led to the rise of UKIP and Brexit.
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Replying to @Mc_Heckin_Duff
Nah, UKIP and Brexit comes from fears of radical Islam and supposed wage undercutting.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
And because they'd both been playing the "vote for us because scary forrins" strategy for so long they couldn't fight it.
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Replying to @Mc_Heckin_Duff
Do you have any evidence Blair engaged in anti-immigrant scare-mongering?
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
What do you mean do I have any evidence? His minister for immigration ran on a literal race-baiting ticket.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
The Blair government was famous for trying to push through incredibly restrictive laws post 9/11.
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Replying to @Mc_Heckin_Duff
You seem to be changing the goalposts. The initial dispute was about Blair's supposed anti-immigrant electioneering.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
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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