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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Yes this is completely wrong. Every bit of quant and qual shows people are far more worried about small boats than legal migration for work/study.

Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social

"On the doorstep people don’t make a distinction between graduate visas & small boats" This is: a) objectively wrong (plenty of polling evidence) b) suggests utter contempt for electorate's thought processes c) is a dreadful way to make policy Otherwise fine www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Adam 🚀 @supernovalabs.co.uk · 29/04/2025

Has to be the slowest invasion ever. The only invasion happening here is an invasion of hidden externalities for the past 60 years of foreign policy adventurism.

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chelseachemist1.bsky.social @chelseachemist1.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Don’t they also massively overestimate the numbers of small boats people and underestimate those coming “legally”?

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James Ingram @ingyingram.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Coincidentally reading this atm: relevant and required

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(Dormant Account) @mildlydispleased.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

An unfunny percentage of people think that a majority of immigrants arrived on small boats. It is a fact that a large proportion of the electorate is uninformed and will actively vote against their own interests. We sometimes forget that 50% of people are more stupid than average.

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underdog67 @underdog67.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I think what bothers many people (me included) is the inability of successive governments to uphold the law in terms of people arriving and how borders are controlled. There appear to be people landing on beaches and disappearing. It undermines society when some laws matter, and others don’t.

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Lyndon Rosser @lyndonrosser.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I keep saying this but apparently no politician is listening. The boats thing triggers atavistic invasion fears in loads of Brits, if they came in by plane there would be much less fuss

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Which at one level is completely nuts, because arrivals via small boats is both a small percentage of total arrivals and primarily contain asylum seekers[1]. [1] who the feck else would risk such a crossing?

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blakeford2.bsky.social @blakeford2.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Whoever said this has never been ‘on the doorstep’

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Jimmyrayreid @jimmyrayreid.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

What small boats seem to show is that we're a country where rules don't matter. Tens of thousands of people illegally trafficked over the border in broad daylight. It is as much an immigration problem as it is related to the rise in shoplifting and phone theft.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Ok, but the point is valid, I canvass a lot and, trust me on this, legal immigration and asylum are conflated constantly.

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Steven @steevo57.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

And this in a snapshot is what is wrong with our politics. It tries to portray a tiny number of human beings fleeing war/persecution as a big threat to our country. The Reform-supporting media push this narrative continually just as it is in the US.

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Captain Easychord @suddenstars.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

It's like these people sit in meetings with a huge portrait of Gillian Duffy in the wall saying "Get that folder of evidence, facts and statistics out of here. Now, let's all think really hard. What would Gillian want us to say?!"

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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Tbh, “utter contempt” strikes me as an approximately correct stance on the thought processes of an electorate that chose Brexit and then Boris Johnson in quick succession.

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🇬🇧💚🇺🇦 Katherine @kathren59.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

🇬🇱🇺🇦🩵🇨🇦The only way of educating people about nuances in policy and politics not the loud noises of press headlines is door to door .

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Adam Clarke @adamclarke.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

At the Russell Group we added to polling evidence on this during the MAC review last year. As you suggest, showed the publics biggest priority by far is illegal migration (and also that voters understand value of intl students to UK HE & home students). www.russellgroup.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

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lila7.bsky.social @lila7.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Because that’s what Farage is telling them to worry about.

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It's coming home @kiersturmer.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

so what is going on, Sam

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The Week in Polls @theweekinpolls.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

And indeed we have new data from Ipsos showing the two sides to public opinion on immigration... bsky.app/profile/did:...

The Week in Polls@theweekinpolls.bsky.social

The two sides to public opinion on immigration: shown by new data from Ipsos, though it's only one of these sides that gets the media's attention: www.ipsos.com/en-uk/two-th...

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Wokey42 @wokey42.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

And it is the responsibility of proper politicians (not the c***s in Reform) to educate the public about the difference between the two and not to reinforce the problem. Any policy based on a simplistic immigrant count is a stupid policy.

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Kev Shaw @kevshaw99.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Which is of course nuts, given the numbers!

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