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Incidentally, comments like the one in your link are the kind that I imagine will ruffle feathers "on the left", in fact I can imagine many will react with "oMg

Incidentally, comments like the one in your link are the kind that I imagine will ruffle feathers "on the left", in fact I can imagine many will react with "oMg rAcIsT"[1] where my view is this is a person with a degree of domain expertise that you'll rarely find anywhere else who at the same time by virtue of being very self-consistent throughout time should be believed to be coming from a place of intelectual honesty. Thanks for the link BTW [1] for example the line "Equally very large numbers are allowed in on the basis of entirely fraudulent applications and forged documents." I can assure you will trigger some "on the left" because omg he's saying that some immigrants shouldn't be allowed in. He himself feel the need to follow up that line with "We liberals are not supposed to admit that side of the equation, but it is true." just so the reader isnt confused on which side he's on.

defrost 3y ago
Hmm. As someone on the actual Australian left I can't see many I know on the left being concerned about the full context of that quote: Businesses in the UK suffer massive damage from important export customers being inexplicably refused visas, *equally very large numbers are allowed in on the basis of entirely fraudulent applications and forged documents* It's very clear he is not talking about people in need, asylum seekers, families seeking to reconnect, etc - he's talking about the domain of "immigration for business reasons" being a shit show of random refusals coupled with free passes handed out to the clearly bogus. Your comment suggests you have some overly broad cartoon characterisation of what you imagine to be "the left".