“Labour won’t redistribute wealth from billionaires,” said former party Leader Jeremy Corbyn. “But they will seize belongings from those fleeing war and persecution.”
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The policy, which some critics said was “reminiscent of the Nazi era,” was just one part of the Labour Party’s total overhaul of the nation’s asylum system, which it says must be made much more restrictive in order to fend off rising support for the far-right.
One day the policy of fending off the far right by becoming them surely has to start paying off. Maybe once the last Labour supporter has left and turned the lights off.
They probably saw how well going hard against asylum seekers worked for the Australian Labor Party. Without that as a platform, the conservative parties basically had little to offer voters, and subsequently imploded.
