"At a policy launch on Monday that would have been considered extreme just a few years ago, Nigel Farage said a Reform UK government would not just abolish indefinite leave to remain for those arriving in the UK, but rescind the status of those who had already been granted it, and force them to apply for new visas. He said the policy was necessary for one reason above all: to wake everybody up to the Boriswave."
"You might have noticed that term in the past few months: it has been used repeatedly in the mainstream media to describe the sharp increase in inward migration from outside the EU after Brexit, when Boris Johnson was prime minister. But Boriswave is not simply a pithy description of a sociological phenomenon but a term coined and popularised among the online far right."
"The originators of the Boriswave concept, and many others like it, are basically the Miranda Priestlys of contemporary rightwing politics. There are various overlapping designations: they were once known as the alt-right in an American context, and are now sometimes called the new right, or the post-organisational far right, but Topinka says he tends to refer to the extremely online right."
Nigel Farage proposed that a Reform UK government would abolish indefinite leave to remain for new arrivals, rescind existing ILR, and force beneficiaries to reapply for visas. He said the measure aimed to "wake everybody up to the Boriswave". "Boriswave" is used in mainstream media to describe increased non‑EU migration after Brexit but was coined and popularised within online far‑right circles. Dr Robert Topinka acknowledges an empirical reality behind the label yet warns that adopting it commits one to a far‑right framing. Originators are compared to Miranda Priestly figures in right‑wing politics and are associated with labels like alt‑right, new right, and post‑organisational far right.
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