Dear Anna,
I am increasingly concerned by the daily parroting of Farage’s far right immigration garbage by Keir Starmer and other senior Labour figures. This is a race to the bottom that Labour will not win. Everyone I talk to is either unimpressed by it because they are either left wing and it’s against traditional Labour values or because they are Right wing and nothing Labour does will impress them.
The ONLY way to win this battle is to fight fire with fire, stop Farage and his tin pot fascist rantings by actually improving the lives of people in a measurable manner whilst actively promoting the benefits of migration.
Many people are sick to death of the pension age getting ever further out of sight. Labour need to make the point that without immigration, due to our ageing population, low birth rate and inability of millennials to afford having children due to the triple whammy of Austerities, Brexit and the Truss budget that the retirement age will continue to rise if we don’t welcome swathes more into the UK.
Also do a massive wealth tax on the wealthy, on their second homes and non dom investment homes that lie empty and use the money to build fresh council housing to ease the housing crisis, also build more GP surgeries and train a whole raft of new GPs to take the far rights powers away from them so they can no longer claim the services can’t cope and the “country is full”.
Keir parroting Farage and letting him steer policy from the sidelines is pushing us dangerously close to a Reform fascist administration.
Labour needs to be bold and tax those with the broadest shoulders now to stave off an absolute disaster!
Kind regards
Carl Garner
Liskeard