Abject stupidity in every way.
You close yourself off from the people you need, in sectors like care and agriculture. And you close yourself off from the people who, once they are more successful, will make Britain richer and more vital.
Anti-immigrant politics is a formula of self-harm, implemented on a sliding scale. Unsurprising Patel has opted for the most harmful variant.
Anyone with even a remote understanding of the kind of immigration Britain needs would know this would cause us terrible damage. But she'll spout her dreadful small-minded bullshit anyway.
Good old pro-immigration Boris Johnson though, and his Britain -open-to-the-world One Nation agenda.
Ah my bad on this. Have just realised it was a think track proposal, so no indication govt agrees. I was doing the shooting-mouth-off-before reading thing. Have duly slapped my wrists.
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