Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,
The same voices who demand "fairness" and insist every community must share the burden of mass illegal migration suddenly discover local democracy the moment the coaches might stop near their postcode.
A Mail on Sunday poll has laid bare the gap between principle and practice. Just 15 percent of people are happy with the idea of more illegal migrants arriving in their own area. Fifty-seven percent actively oppose it.
Yet many of those who back Prime Minister Andy Burnham's call for affluent and rural places to "play their part" draw a firm line at their own front door.
The liberal wokerati back Burnham's plan to house asylum seekers in affluent postcodes... as long as it's not theirs, MoS poll reveals https://t.co/TuelsWxBxH
— Daily Mail (@DailyMail) August 15, 2026
Burnham has been explicit. He told GB News that Britain "cannot have a situation where it's only the poorest communities in the country that receive all of the dispersal of refugees and asylum seekers." All parts of the country, he said, must work and play their part. The policy is framed as equity. The reality on the ground looks very different.
The survey of 10,549 adults, conducted by Find Out Now and weighted to be representative by ag
