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Is Britain's government handling immigration well?

“"Harsh" and "lenient" present a deceptive dichotomy for what the real problem is; the Starmer government confessed that what had long been dismissed as a "right-wing conspiracy theory" was actually happening: Britain was being flooded with immigrants, blind eyes were being turned to some genuinely awful criminal groups, and the public was being gaslit and shut out all the way along.” — Scaramouche
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