Here’s Conservative Magazine ‘The Spectator’ Editor Fraser Nelson in 2017 explaining that as long as you lie to people that you “hear their concerns about immigration” you can have any pro-immigration policy you want

So-Called Conservative Magazine

Jonathan Bowden had an anecdote that he liked to tell that went exactly like this.

Not that anecdote but a related one:

are you telling me that the media wants politicians to simply lie about the policies they want to enact and them simply abandon the policies when elected?

If you can believe it

Fraser Nelson's political breakthrough as he discovers the concept of 'lying' and how politicians can simply lie to their constituents and still win elections.

I did wonder where the Conservatives got their talk tough but throw the doors wide open immigration policy, and I need wonder no more. Despicable behaviour of course, just beneath contempt. Lets hope the Conservatives get to see where governing under a false manifesto gets you.

If you want politicians to be your empathetic friend you are ngmi

He not only admits their concerns are "rational," he actively promotes the idea that lying to the electorate about their concerns somehow helps to build trust between the public and their rulers. The fucking brainworms are dining like kings in that one

And this has always been the British way.