'Wicked, divisive, performative - but mostly useless': When crass race baiting and rhetoric over immigration meets reality, Part. 5150

When times are tough for the Conservatives, it goes without saying that they tend to follow this pattern of focusing on certain issues as though they’ve just stumbled across the comments section on the Good Morning Britain Facebook page and used it mistakenly as the barometer to measure how people truly feel. 

You’ll remember in February last year whenever Boris Johnson - facing down a resurgence in polling support for Labour amid scandal after scandal following the Owen Paterson affair, culminating in the outrage over ‘Partygate’ - pulled the ‘he let Savile off the hook’ slur out of his back pocket and lobbed it across the despatch box at Sir Keir Starmer.