“If you go ‘transgender rights are our big thing’, you are going to lose that culture war”

Feb 24, 2020 by Jill

by Paul Goodman, Conservative Home:

Over in the United States, in the competiton for the Democrats’ presidential candidate nomination, Bernie Sanders has suggested that illegal immigrants should have the same rights to welfare as American citizens.

“All of our people – when I say all I also mean the undocumented in this country – all of our people are entitled to basic human rights,” he told a campaign rally. This is part of what he calls “rethinking America”.

Sanders thus offers a context in which to mull how the Ango-American Left is ceasing to be the movement of the working class. Thus opening up the space for Boris Johnson to win his “stonking majority” last December.

Tony Blair set the scene in Britain by spurning transitional controls on migration from Eastern Europe in the wake of enlargement.

This was a significant factor in swelling the long-term rejection of Labour by a huge swathe of the working class. The New Labour years paved the way for the rise of UKIP and the EU referendum.

Lord Ashcroft’s research suggests that immigration was the second-biggest factor in driving Leave voters to back quitting the EU.

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