If Britain isn't broken then why is there so much protest then? Is this what success looks like for you?
It’s very much not broken but I completely get why many are disenfranchised.
What frustrates me though is twofold; firstly, so much of it is overblown and the online right and Reform types have to rely on pushing this narrative even harder to make their case. If you look at underlying metrics then crime keeps going down, immigration is going down etc. our cities are overwhelmingly safe, but if you believe everything you see and read online it’s a Wild West overrun by criminal illegal immigrants hellbent on our destruction. This just isn’t true.
Secondly, it’s the scapegoating of immigrants, as is constant from that side of the political spectrum. We saw it in the EU referendum with Farage and his ilk selling leaving the EU as some silver bullet for improving our prospects and reducing immigration, when you quite passionately believe and know the opposite is true. It’s kneecapped us economically and meant we’ve had to rely on non-EU immigration to plug the holes.
There always has to be some sort of bogeyman for everyone’s ills - this time it’s just immigrants in general and it creates an awful ‘them and us’ friction. You said yourself it’s down to repeated government failures - it’s not just immigration.
Those who want this aggressive form of mass deportation on our streets also have no answers and show no joined up thinking with where we go from there. It’s a tiny percentage of immigrants who are here illegally. Most are here legally, with IDL or on visas/work permits and performing key roles in our public services and private enterprises. They can’t just be replaced overnight.
This country has undersold its youth with making further education so expensive, the cost of living so expensive, that we do not have people born and bred here ready to step into the tens of thousands of roles that would be vacated.
It would then be these same people that complain that they can’t get a doctor or dentist appointment, hospitals can’t function, care homes crumble etc. because they can’t be staffed, and prices sky rocket because people are having to pay more to convince British people to perform the menial tasks.
These frustrations have stemmed from the governments of the last 20 years - many of whom are now in the Reform party that many on here are queuing up to vote for again. Make it make sense.