Sensible policies like the last two, three years?
Bollocks. It's just theatre.
People like to see the non-nationals suffer. Indulging that is politically almost unbeatable. Anyone who doesn't realise that as a fact is probably in totes denial about where they are coming from.
Especially if you "accidentally" keep fucking up, ensuring the problem is always present in people's minds.
Actually tackling immigration would look rather different.
Look, men over 40 break hard against outsiders, they react poorly to groups they don't identify with, often tend to end up slating particular women, for some reason. LOL.
It's because we're unhappy and the camraderie of our earlier lives is gone. When we communicate, we're trying to establish predictable patterns between us. That's how we fit into each other's lives, in however a small way. Problem is, we aren't bending over for each other like we did in our twenties. In general, we aren't predictable. We're hormonal, emotional (anger and irritability), and stressed and aging and ignored and often in mild discomfort and so forth. So, people throw up scapegoats to try and smooth things over.
Scapegoat = figure likely to provoke a common negative reaction. So, an outsider. A woman, usually a woman on this board. Or go join the pile in on the latest "sexual deviant". Important thing is, anyone not part of the group. Loads of threads on this board fit the pattern. When we don't agree politically, someone says, ooh, but look at this one; *picture of Liverpool/Rag fan* *picture of woman expressing themselves in some minor political way*.