First it was no to Polish plumbers, then Afghan refugees. Now the right doesn’t want any migrants at all | Aditya Chakrabortty

This week's furore over entirely legal migration proves it was never the kind of foreigner you were, simply your foreignness

Few sights are as sad as someone who gets exactly what they want and hates it, yet that is exactly how the British right behaves.

Hacking back the state? They swung the axe for a decade, only to complain about the damage done. Boris Johnson? Once their surefire winner, he has made them all losers. And, of course, there's Brexit - the summit towards which so many trudged, only to find the view from the top a dud. Every last one of the right's grievances has been dealt with, and it drives them mad.

Aditya Chakrabortty is a Guardian columnist