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>>11587430
it's obviously more complicated than that
example: when blair won the uk general election in 1997, it wasn't because his party was "pro immigration". it was a combination of various factors: people were sick of the tories, john major was a weak leader, blair was hugely popular and persuasive (he was a master of speechcraft), he was riding on the coat tails of the late john smith, his party promised major changes in policing ("tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime"), education, economic reform and a raft of other stuff. immigration was way down the list.
the uk had never had massive immigration on the scale he introduced and it didn't register with most of the population exactly what he (and his cronies such as mandelson) were doing until it was too late
(note, the first time the uk had sustained immigration, rather than net emigration, was under thatcher, but the numbers were tiny by comparison)
people go on about blair being a "war criminal" but his real crimes were far worse than that