The problem is that voters aren’t willing to pay for a policy they say really matters to them
If you are a European political party of the right, there is a quick and easy way to get elected: talk a lot about your plans to reduce immigration. This proved pretty successful in the elections to the European parliament, is part of why Geert Wilders finished first in the Dutch elections, and is one reason why Marine Le Pen is giving Emmanuel Macron nightmares in France.
That isn’t to say that inside every European who wants lower immigration is an open borders liberal trying to get out. Displays of ostentatious cruelty — from New Labour’s ban on letting asylum seekers work while their claims are being processed to the Conservatives’ “hostile environment” — have formed part of every election-winning programme this century in the UK, and the country is not an outlier.
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