2025-10-20
24 分钟This is the Guardian.
Today.
Are you inadvertently using the language of the far right?
This press conference is about stopping the Boris wave of a minimum of 800,000 people getting indefinite leave to remain at vast cost to this country over the decades to come.
Yes, there are historic Another day, another reform UK press conference.
Nigel Farage yet again banging on about immigration,
this time pledging to abolish indefinite right to remain,
the right accrued by long term immigrants to live and work in the UK permanently.
But this time there was one phrase, a pretty new one,
that he was keen to shoehorn in at every opportunity.
It's actually the age profile that worries us about the Boris wave in some ways more than anything else.
Young, unproductive, the Boris wave.
You know, which Boris this is not.
What Brexit voters wanted.
We're at election after election after election.
They were promised that net migration would come down to tens of thousands a year.
And we learn it was up to, in the worst year, a million.
Although we haven't yet got the revisions.
What you perhaps don't know is that Boris wave is not simply a jaunty description of a sociological phenomenon.
It's a term coined and popularised among the very online far right,