the chance of his amendments getting through are minimal. _ but even if they did, _ the chance of the policy working appear to me to be minimal. the chance of the policy working in time to move the dial- for the next electionl appear very minimal. and the fact that the tory party is now going to go to war- about it next week is simply. going to increase the salience of the issue as an issue that| divides the tory party rather than the salience of the issue i with scarlett's voters all saying, "ah, thank goodness our party is now tackling this issue." _ one more sort of thought experiment from this to both of you, mary and ed, which is, if we accept the kind of contention that a big challenge for richer countries over the next generation is going to be the question of irregular illegal migration and the existing ways of dealing with it aren't working, and therefore countries like the uk are going to have to think radically and do stuff that they might not have entertained in the past, is it not reasonable to jump from those set of assumptions to a point where you say countries