Excellent post, Mike. Like you, I'm so pleased to see these kinds of articles starting to turn up here on FR and elsewhere.
The voices of reason and thought have always been the silent majority on FR during this last year whether it was with DWP or this immigration debate. The absolutists just have their anger and noise to make them seem more numerous and more daunting than their actual numbers indicate. It's just like the story of Gideon in the Book of Judges in the Bible. The noise made by the trumpets of Gideon's army made them seem to be a larger force than they actually were.