All over the western world the big issue driving politics for the forseeable now that inflation has subsided is immigration. It's making far right parties popular enough to be likely winning power in a lot of countries.

But with Trump about to win in America the rest of the west might be about to catch a break. If he wins he's the dog who caught the car. He's then stuck with actually trying to round up hundreds of thousands or millions of people and then kicking them out.

Back before Brexit all the far right parties were also going to leave if they got power. It was part of the platform of parties like AfD and Le Pen's party. But once they saw how Brexit actually worked out for Britain they reversed course and now all want to stay in the EU.

The same thing will happen with immigration if Trump actually tries to kick millions of workers out of the US. It'll be an absolute economic catastrophe and he'll reverse course. It'll be a graphic demonstration to western voters that the easy answers people like Farage and Le Pen are all full of shit.

Labour have a lot of economic problems. The biggest by far isn't even Brexit, it's the damage caused by all the austerity over the past decade and a bit. I don't envy them trying to sort the mess out but the one issue the right have to hammer them with* if Trump does what he says he's going to will turn from a big negative for Labour into if not a positive at least a neutral issue.

*Electorates have a collective memory slightly better than that of a goldfish. A year into Labour's term and immigration will be all their fault, the fact it increased hugely after Brexit under the Conservatives will all be forgotten and right wing politicians using it as an issue will have success.