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It’s all Just Too Difficult
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It’s all Just Too Difficult

Fantasy politics is turning Britain into a shambles

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Melanie Phillips
Sep 09, 2021
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Boris Johnson’s government

What is the connection between Britain's elderly or ailing citizens, Afghanistan and the illegal migrants in the English Channel?

The answer is that they each furnish an example of fantasy politics — policy that spectacularly deflects attention away from the one issue that actually matters because that issue is thought to be Jus…

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