Good morning. Consider the policy slate: British residents with settled status should be deported. We should guard against demographic change by increasing birthrates instead of migration. The special treatment for minorities in a “two-tier” justice system must end. There should be fewer black and Asian people on TV. And you can’t be English unless you’re white.
A few years ago, views like these belonged firmly on the fringes – and while the occasional unreconstructed backbencher might get some publicity by voicing them, they would swiftly be dismissed as irrelevant cranks. No longer. That laundry list is an amalgamation of the views held by parties now deemed mainstream and their allies in the media – and yet the blunt fact that Conservatives are echoing policies that once belonged to the BNP, or that Nigel Farage and the Daily Mail are adopting tropes popularised by Tommy Robinson, somehow seems taboo to point out.
