The Labour Government

[Gray]

Why ? Have you met one, what did they do to you.

They are illegal isn’t that enough.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

They are illegal isn’t that enough.

Sigh.

 

[blueparrot]

They are illegal isn’t that enough.

No they aren’t illegal,they are asylum seekers, in fact many have their applications accepted. Illegal immigrants are something very different, by their very nature we don’t know how an illegal immigrant got here although some will just have overstayed their visa.We also don’t in general know where they are, many will be working. They may even have served you and been very nice about it,you just didn’t know.
What you’ve done here is fall for the tories tick of blurring 2 very different things.Refugees and illegal immigrants.

 

[Brewster's millions]

I’d trust Guido Falkes to be a better source than you.

You can believe anything you want, however ridiculous.

And given that you trust Guido Fawkes so heartily, what do you think about the ministers briefing against Reeves, saying that the (delayed) comprehensive spending review will be a disaster if it’s handled as badly as the Budget? Or the story about Defra not being informed about the change in IHT for farmers? All sounds like a bit of a shit show doesn’t it?

 

[Blue Maverick]

Can anyone tell me why if someone comes on a student visa they are entitled to bring family? The people doing social care yes I understand as they are working the students I don’t get.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

You can believe anything you want, however ridiculous.

And given that you trust Guido Fawkes so heartily, what do you think about the ministers briefing against Reeves, saying that the (delayed) comprehensive spending review will be a disaster if it’s handled as badly as the Budget? Or the story about Defra not being informed about the change in IHT for farmers? All sounds like a bit of a shit show doesn’t it?

Newsflash.

I don’t trust Guido at all. I just trust them more than you. They’re less partisan.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Can anyone tell me why if someone comes on a student visa they are entitled to bring family? The people doing social care yes I understand as they are working the students I don’t get.

Didn’t they recently stop families coming over with students, meaning foreign student numbers have decreased markedly, creating a funding crisis for universities?

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

Funnily enough, everyone thinks house prices and rents are too high, but no one wants more houses built near them as 'they won't be for our people, but for those who've come over on boats'. I wish I had a tenner for every time I've heard that.

However, what makes it impossible to deliver the targets - whether you think them a Good Thing or not - is a serious shortage of building tradespeople, made worse by Brexit. Do you see any sign of a programme to train (many) more? No, and nor do I.

Anyway, I'm OK, I've got a house so fuck those who need one. They're all immigrants anyway, because apparently no native Brits want one. They'll just have to carry on paying 50% of their income in rent and not ask for any increase in pay. Because that would be bolshie and 'holding the country to ransom'. Can't have that.

You may have heard the same bloke on the radio as me. Said all the houses being built were for immigrants. I just sat in the car shaking my head, thinking that some people have gone absolutely nuts!

 

[BlueHammer85]

I agree you can’t judge them yet.

But I bet things are just as bad if not worse this time next year.

I for one am heartily sick of these rubber dinghy immigrants.

Bookmarked, Labour will bring numbers down slowly but surely.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Bookmarked, Labour will bring numbers down slowly but surely.

Depends. If he’s really only on about the 3% of immigration coming in on small boats, then there’s not much any government can do about it, however draconian their rhetoric becomes.

Barring rejoining the EU or signing up to a quasi Dublin agreement with France.