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I don’t even think it’s being pro unlimited migration that drives much of the real pro migration sentiment in the centre of politics. It’s something closer to “impassioned permissibility” where the only thing they care about is not enforcing rules / hierarchies / categories at an abstract level. Not enforcing a boundary on another is THE highest order value. They don’t actively want bad things to happen, they just don’t want to push back against a liberalisation of a category even more.

P.P.S. While all politicians know this, it afflicts them to different extents. Centre-chasing Labour and the Conservatives have had the hardest balancing act (the median voter wants low immigration *and* cheap labour). Easier for those just seeking to galvanise one of the poles.

I don’t even think it’s being pro unlimited migration that drives much of the real pro migration sentiment in the centre of politics. It’s something closer to “impassioned permissibility” where the only thing they care about is not enforcing rules / hierarchies / categories at an abstract level. Not enforcing a boundary on another is THE highest order value. They don’t actively want bad things to happen, they just don’t want to push back against a liberalisation of a category even more.

Party systems don't die very often and I don't think it's time for obituaries quite yet. Still, when the history of this period is written, the fecklessness of Labour and Tory elites and their bizarre inability to deal with voter preferences around immigration will loom large.

I can’t believe what I’ve just watched. Socialist teachers who are striking, right in exam mock periods, are being counter protested by very grown up and sensible teenagers DEMANDING that they be taught back in school. These “teachers” should be ashamed of themselves. Draped in Gaza flags, and flying far-left “Stand Up to Racism” and Unite Union banners outside a school. Keep your politics out of our schools and DO YOUR JOB.

Without minimising the dire results for Labour, it’s extraordinary how chipper the Tories are. They’ve lost 500 seats from a low watermark, lost major councils to Lib Dems and Reform, show no signs of recovery in the esp LD areas they need to win.

Reminder that all the Big Issue sellers are now Roma because the gypsy mafia realised it was a way to claim tax credits while begging, and took it over.

🚨Labour MP who is definitely not one of the usual suspects tells HuffPost UK there is "deep frustration and anger" on the backbenches at Keir Starmer's response so far to the elections in England, Scotland and Wales. The MP says the PM's latest reset speech, scheduled for Monday, needs to be a "gamechanger" or else many more will break ranks and call on him to set out a timetable for his departure.

Across the country the Conservatives are coming back.