The Labour Government

[BrianW]

As I understand it, the students coming here on visas pay for their education and in effect help subsidise the cost of HE for UK students. I presume this is why successive governments have allowed/encouraged them. In effect, the country makes a profit out of them. The universities are in such a dire financial state that the whole shebang might collapse without the foreign students.

Some do overstay their visas, but no one can be arsed doing anything about that as it involves work for the authorities. As this country chooses not to have ID cards, it makes it very difficult to police who has and hasn't a right to be here. Having bad English might imply a person has no right to be here, but it doesn't prove it. (Many natives have bad English, especially bad written English.)

It's like trying to enforce traffic laws without vehicle number plates or registration, but no one can be bothered to do anything about it. It's easier just to moan and blame foreigners or the EU.

 

[Manc in London]

Lammy and Mandelson responsible for our dealings with the USA after their comments about him

Genius Starmer.. Fucking genius

It has to be.. otherwise it’s the decision of an imbecile

He won't care.

He took on JD Vance as his running mate. Have you read what Vance said about him?

 

[bluethrunthru]

 

[metalblue]

I see Starmer has promised £1.6bn to local authorities to mend pot holes.

And yes Sunak did the same and his promise was £8.3 bn but that was over 11 years meaning £754m each year - none of it was actually provided before the suicidal GE was called and in any event they were never going to be in power for 11 years - another example of them saying shite with no money set aside to back it up

The £1.6bn includes the extra money going to homelessness folk you mentioned earlier. Spending the same money countless times eh?

 

[meltonblue]

The £1.6bn includes the extra money going to homelessness folk you mentioned earlier. Spending the same money countless times eh?

I doubt the department for transport are contributing money to the homeless, where’s that from?

 

[bluethrunthru]

I doubt the department for transport are contributing money to the homeless, where’s that from?

His fever dreams?

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

In the face of adversity, doing a great job.

 

[bluethrunthru]

In the face of adversity, doing a great job.

adversity? There is an outright press assault on the UK Govt by the press whomsoever they are - thing is is you look at what the Govt is doing (mostly unreported) eventually the press will have egg on its face.

eg - "MIGRATION DOWN 200K THIS YEAR AND 100K ILLEGAL MIGRANTS RETURNED. THIS IS HOW ITS BAD FOR LABOUR"

expect that in 2 or 3 years time from the Mail

Then pre-GE

"LABOUR HAS STEMMED MIGRATION WHICH HAS HARMED GROWTH IN THE UK "

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

adversity? There is an outright press assault on the UK Govt by the press whomsoever they are - thing is is you look at what the Govt is doing (mostly unreported) eventually the press will have egg on its face.

eg - "MIGRATION DOWN 200K THIS YEAR AND 100K ILLEGAL MIGRANTS RETURNED. THIS IS HOW ITS BAD FOR LABOUR"

expect that in 2 or 3 years time from the Mail

Then pre-GE

"LABOUR HAS STEMMED MIGRATION WHICH HAS HARMED GROWTH IN THE UK "

Never seen anything like it and confirms to me that the media are to Labour as they are to City. I see myself as centrist who will vote either way, what this has confirmed, to me, is that the media is not in the interests of the people, they are just there to serve the few, leading the working people blindly into further servitude.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Never seen anything like it and confirms to me that the media are to Labour as they are to City. I see myself as centrist who will vote either way, what this has confirmed, to me, is that the media is not in the interests of the people, they are just there to serve the few, leading the working people blindly into further servitude.

So true. The media in its current form is a malign influence on politics. Most people are centrist but their views are not represented.