How Our Politicians Created an ‘Island of Strangers’ So They Don’t Have to Make Our Lives Any Better

How Our Politicians Created an ‘Island of Strangers’ So They Don’t Have to Make Our Lives Any Better

The Non-Solution to Life’s Struggles ‘Today, I feel like I’ve woken up a stranger in this country’. I was discussing the “shock vote” for Brexit with another remainer on the afternoon after the EU Referendum. Immediately described by the commentariat as a “protest”, one newspaper noted that, after years of people ‘waking up and feeling like strangers in their own country’, those who voted to leave had finally demanded to be heard. That was the l…

An “Island of Strangers” or an Island Without a Story

It took a while for the penny to drop but finally, UK prime minister Keir Starmer has acknowledged the scale of the problem posed by mass migration. He did not quite go far enough. He said that Britain risked becoming “an island of strangers.” In reality,  it is already a nation where people feel like strangers in their own home. According to an opinion poll, published this month by pollsters at More In Common, close to half of the people survey…