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Labour’s new equalities tsar has landed herself in sizzling water simply weeks into her new position.

By attacking those that warn in opposition to the dangers of mass-migration to the UK, Mary-Ann Stephenson, the top of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, has catapulted herself – and the EHRC – into the political row that’s going to dominate the discourse up till the subsequent election.

The motive this issues is as a result of voters have been earlier than.

In 2010, then Prime Minister Gordon Brown branded Gillian Duffy a bigot for daring to boost her considerations about immigration.

Over the following 15 years, hundreds of thousands have repeatedly voted for decrease ranges of migration, solely to be met with document ranges of internet migration and an asylum disaster which has led to tens of hundreds of unlawful migrants being housed in taxpayer-funded resorts.

But now the top of a strong quango is as soon as once more warning in opposition to “this idea that migration causes huge risks for the country, can make the lives not just of migrants to the UK, but of ethnic minority UK citizens, very, very difficult.”

This argument strikes on the very coronary heart of a difficulty many have been speaking about for years – neighborhood cohesion.

More aptly, the shortage of give attention to neighborhood cohesion has frayed the social material within the UK as a result of considerations have been ignored or dismissed for thus lengthy.

Ms Stephenson talks about needing “honesty” within the migration debate.

But a part of that is acknowledging the truth of the coverage failures.

Millions voted for larger immigration controls, but witnessed the so-called ‘Boris Wave’ the place a whole bunch of hundreds of predominantly low-skilled migrants arrived. It’s very exhausting to guard neighborhood cohesion when so many individuals really feel like they have been informed they’re ‘racist’ or do not fairly perceive the issue as a result of they go in opposition to the grain, elevating respectable considerations.

And earlier than her appointment, Dr Stephenson lobbied the Government to desert its “smash the gangs” coverage and permit extra asylum seekers into the nation, evaluating criticism of refugees to “hostile politics, racist rhetoric and demonising language of the past”.

This isn’t about demonising migrants themselves.

It’s about demonising the coverage failures which have led us to this place.