Do you have any evidence Blair engaged in anti-immigrant scare-mongering?
I don't get it. You're saying he was too anti-immigrant in office, yet also blame him for rise of UKIP?
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If you accept immigration is a problem, people believe immigration is a problem.
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I think Blair accepted *that other people thought* immigration is a problem, which is just realism.
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Yes. He engaged with the rhetoric, gave it validity, accepted the "reasonable concerns".
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Well mostly his home secretaries but still.
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The Labour Government under Blair. Not all of it directly him.
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Blair equivocated on it because he knew immigration was literally absolutely necessary.
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But he never shied away from symbolic attacks on "bogus asylum seekers" and promises to be tough.
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