Mathew Taylor, Chief Executive of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce has highlighted the work of the Simple Acts campaign.
In a recent blog entitled ‘Why migration policy is never right’, Mathew Taylor points to the Simple Acts campaign as a “brave and creative” appeal to “common values and grassroots mobilisation”:
“…migration is an issue which stirs huge egalitarian feeling. People often associate egalitarian instincts (an emphasis on ideas of fairness, shared values plus a suspicion of change driven by the state and markets) with the left, but in this case egalitarianism is most often expressed in hostility to migration. Progressives and champions of the rights of migrants and refugees do attempt to counter this with their own appeal to common values and grass roots mobilisation (see, for example, the brave and creative campaign, Simple Acts, advanced by the Refugee Week Partnership, which includes the Refugee Council and a number of other agencies) but these appeals lack the intensity of nationalism or tribalism.”
