After watching social democratic parties around the world commit suicide by adopting minority grievance ID politics, Theresa May wants in!
Agreed, but the mass opinion change relied on a large amount of legwork and preparation put in during the early period. I think our immigration debate is where France’s was in about 2010, you’ve had past populist successes but they haven’t been built on properly... yet
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Attitudes in France & Britain significantly different. National id of ethnic minorities is one major differences. Your earlier claim only recent migrants tend to identify as British is simply wrong: 8/10 people do express pride in British identity, as well as Eng/Scot/Welsh
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Almost the perfect Leave / Remain divide, cant remember the exact correlation but it’s very strong. English over British was one of the strongest predictors for a Leave votepic.twitter.com/Golr508Crf
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And of course, also very closely tracks the percentage migrant background. Which also tracks age to some extent; given the different demographics of each population, which probably explains at least some of your “generational shift” effect on immigration.
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it does not explain that much of it. You will be very disappointed when you look up beliefs about English identity in terms of ethnic/civic boundaries among the under 35s. It is why your "European" frame for attacking the Mayor of London is going to fall flat.
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Numbers on that? You’ve dodged all my progress questions. I have a feeling you just think there’s a historical trend towards your ideas that happens by itself; this is false. Where is the equivalent youth movement to GI in favour of mass migration?
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I am not a believer in linear progress or demography as destiny. Have argued the opposite as most people actually following identity debates/evidence seriously would know.
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I am surprised you attribute views to people who have a prominent track record of arguing the opposite. You are going to struggle as a hipster racist thought leader if you are paddling so much in the shallow end of the identity evidence
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What is causing these generational shifts then? Also; what would polled support for Communism in 1988 have looked like? Or Catholicism in 1516? Diversity / multicultural ideology is taught in schools, it was not a couple of decades ago. That’s not sustainable
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