The public are right: citizenship is a privilege, not a right |
Keir Starmer is, in many ways, a remarkable prime minister. He is remarkably uncharismatic and remarkably unable to discern the mood of the nation he governs. He is remarkable in his unpopularity, with the British public now even preferring Nicolas Maduro to Our Man From Islington. He is remarkable in his number of U-turns, digital ID being the latest. And Remarkable Starmer has even managed to unite the country with his ‘delighted’ decision to welcome Egyptian dissident, anti-white activist and recent British passport recipient Alaa Abd el-Fattah to our land.
By a margin of two to one, the British public think that citizenship is a privilege which should be revocable by politicians in certain circumstances
That’s what we learned from a poll by More in Common this week. They asked voters if they thought ‘it was the right or wrong decision for the government to welcome’ el-Fattah to the UK. A mere 12 per cent of people thought it was the right decision. Some 81 per cent of Reform voters and 75 per cent of Tories thought Starmer had made the wrong choice. Of course they did. What is perhaps more surprising is that a mere 11 per cent of Lib Dems, and 23 per cent of Greens thought our Prime........