British people are dissatisfied with the government’s handling of immigration, with the majority saying the number of legal and illegal immigrants should be reduced.
The Reform Britain Party said parties opposed to the “immigration epidemic” are gaining support as British politics realigns, the party’s deputy leader told Breitbart London following the new figures.
An Ipsos Mori survey on public attitudes towards new arrivals, carried out in collaboration with pro-immigration and pro-integration think tank British Future, found this week that there was dissatisfaction with the government’s handling of the border issue, and a wide range of It was reported that voters from all political camps expressed their concerns. While the data shows Labour’s current overwhelming polling lead, it is notable that Nigel Farage and his Reform UK Party are polling ahead of the Conservatives on trust and policy. The findings should serve as a worrying wake-up call for Conservative Party politicians, whose party holds a majority. Britain existed politically for 200 years.
In response to the numbers, Reform UK deputy leader Ben Habib told Breitbart London that the Conservative Party is suffering from having turned its back on its own voters. He said: “We are witnessing a historic realignment in politics. We have not seen changes like this in 100 years.
“It all started in 2016 when our ruling class turned its back on the will of the British people to abandon the politics of globalism and put country first. Rather, they have posed an existential threat to us economically, socially, culturally, and constitutionally.”
Supporters of all major political parties want UK government to cut immigration: poll https://t.co/BSw8G6bhWc
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) February 22, 2024
According to Ipsos, almost everyone in the UK is dissatisfied with the border in some way, but the reasons for dissatisfaction vary by political party, with some camps feeling the border is a much more pressing issue than others. It is said that there is According to the newspaper, 69 percent of the public are “dissatisfied” with immigration, while only 9 percent are satisfied. Among these headline numbers: 52 percent of the public is dissatisfied because they think immigration should decrease, and 17 percent are dissatisfied because they think immigration should increase. I’m holding you.
When asked specifically what they were dissatisfied with, 54% of respondents said “Not enough is being done to stop people crossing the Channel,” and 51% said “There are too many immigrants.” answered. However, only 28% of respondents said the government was creating a negative or fearful environment for migrants living in the UK, and a quarter said it was not treating asylum seekers well.
Breaking down these sentiments by party, right-wing voters are far more dissatisfied with Britain’s border controls than left-wing voters, compared to 72% of past Conservative voters who said they felt that way. For Labor it was 40%. But importantly, voters on the right say immigration is a very important issue to them, while voters on the left say the same is not true. These findings show that voters are so dissatisfied with the Conservative government’s performance that they will not win on immigration in the next UK general election (which the left-wing Labor Party is expected to win) and are likely to It suggests that there is a possibility of defeat. Switch your allegiance to a party like Reform Britain or don’t vote at all.
“Conservative voters are the most negative about immigration, but they are also critical of the government,” said Gideon Skinner, head of political research at Ipsos.
Ben Habib at a rally against the Northern Ireland Protocol at Crossgar Orange Hall. Photo date: Friday, March 11, 2022 (Photo by Brian Lawless/PA Images via Getty Images)
In fact, Ipsos polling shows that, quite unbelievably given that this is a relatively new party with only one MP, the public is more likely to vote for Nigel Farage on immigration than for the Conservatives (22%). They were found to have more confidence in reform (26%). Labor won both on the trust issue, which is likely to reflect Labour’s superior position in the polls.
Commenting on this clear vote of confidence in Reform UK’s approach to immigration policy, which contrasts with the Conservative Party’s, Deputy Leader Habib told Breitbart: “Reform UK is emerging as the party that will save Britain. On a wide range of issues, we will propose a 180 degree change of direction. This includes our opposition to immigration.
“Reform Britain is trying to eliminate the Conservative Party Parliament. It is the right result of what they have done to our great country.”
Despite it being sometimes portrayed in the media as primarily a threat to the Conservative Party, previous opinion polls and surveys have shown that many reform supporters and former Brexit Party voters are former Labor voters. It is shown.
The “red wall”, which is much debated in former working-class seats across the English heartlands that first turned Conservative with Boris Johnson in 2019, is tribally not Tory but handicapped. I’m trying to put it in. Mr Habib said: “We are also taking on a Labor party that in no way represents the working class. They are more interested in the chatty, self-proclaimed intellectual liberal Islington elite. The Conservatives and Labor are two sides of the same coin. We will win seats – far more than anyone predicts.”
Populist Reform UK Party outperforms Conservatives with support among men and red-wall votershttps://t.co/DvprvMkfFW
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) March 24, 2024
In terms of personality, Nigel Farage and Sir Keir Starmer both have about the same level of trust from the public when it comes to immigration. According to Ipsos, Mr Farage outperforms all leading figures in the Conservative Party in his confidence on immigration.
Reform UK’s high confidence rating on immigration, at 26 per cent, suggests the party is making further progress in terms of overall support potential. Recent polls have put the party at 16 percent support, and there are still voters who agree with its message of reform on the substantive points (border control, an issue that is important to instinctively conservative voters). This means that they will do so, and they have not been able to persuade them to support it.
Immigration and border control, which have played a key role in winning elections for decades, are likely to have a positive or negative impact on the Conservative Party in this year’s expected general election. This is because the people are reflecting on the failure of the Conservative Party’s tough promises made in the previous vote. Power. For example, the Conservative Party campaigned and won on a promise to reduce annual net immigration to “tens of thousands”.
As reported last month:
…1.2 million new people entered the UK in the year to June 2023 due to Conservative law changes designed to make it significantly easier to enter the UK legally. Adjusting for people who retired over the same period, that’s a net population increase of 672,000 people in just one year…This government policy is particularly important. exactly the opposite Something the governing Conservative Party has long promised to deliver. He won an election based on a promise to reduce immigration to “tens of thousands” per year. Instead, it is now adding 1 million people every 18 months.
The government said it was impossible to keep this promise because economic growth is paramount and takes precedence over other considerations. Unsurprisingly, Chancellor George Osborne infamously put it this way in 2017, and the moment he took off his mask, the Tory leader had no intention of cutting immigration in the first place. It revealed that. They kept these feelings to themselves only during elections. He said:
“[N]one of [the Cabinet’s] Senior party members have backed this pledge privately, and everyone will be pleased to see that we now know what has caused so much public grief for the Conservative Party… the damage to the economy from drastic cuts to work visas. was deemed too serious by the Immigration Expert Committee. The impact on community relations of further restricting family reunification visas was considered unfavorable. And few people thought we were taking in too many refugees. ”
Just this month, Bloomberg pundits predicted that a “surge in immigration to the UK” would significantly boost the British economy and provide a “windfall” for the government. However, a recession seems to have arrived instead, and the expected trade-in tax reduction now appears to be impossible.
Surely they’re not lying: somehow Britain is in recession despite record immigration growthhttps://t.co/Td5l9uDeGc
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) February 17, 2024
