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Unfortunately tor you, the electorate disagrees pretty strongly.

The tone of this post alone tells me you’re driven by hatred/envy of the rich than concern for the poor. Free market capitalism has lead to the largest expansion of living standards. Like you, I agree capitalism is the worst economic system, except for all the others.

I can’t imagine any England managers have had an easier starting 3 games in Albania, Latvia and Andorra. Too right, it was shite.

Imagine the reaction if Southgate was still manager… Fair to Tuchel for calling out the performance for what it was: shite. His early report card is not looking good. The silver lining is that these games are mostly a formality so there’s not much to read into atm and certainly no need for...

You don’t think the left deploys fear and blame? Look at some of the envy shown by our more left wing posters on; private school VAT raises, wealth taxes, second home ownership and so on. The left has also bought into the conspiracy theory that the NHS is being deliberately defunded so it...

To flip this on its head, why do you keep falling for the idea that government can fix all the ills of the world?

The operative word is ‘was’, it’s past tense. When Farage achieved his political goals, he rode off into the sunset. His abrupt comeback last year was only possible because the government had ‘betrayed’ its 2019 coalition of voters. In fact, the reason Sunak called the election earlier was to...

In your honest opinion, do you feel like you’ve got what you voted for? My personal view is that reality has hit this government hard in the face and they haven’t got what it takes to get out of the rut. They’re 1 year in and had 2 (?) resets, several U-turns and there’s even talk that Starmer...

Labour has had a fair crack of the whip, their blunders have been almost entirely self inflicted. They haven’t even been in power for a year. To be charitable, Labour has drawn the short straw so to speak because the electorate is that disillusioned after the successive regicidal Tory...

He was retired because there was nothing for him to gain being in frontline politics. The Brexit debate had been won and the Boris majority of 2019 was an electoral programme that nullified Farage. Had the Tories delivered their manifesto pledges, not let the tax burden and immigration get to...

It’s a shock win for Labour, for sure. The Labour candidate had a Q&A that went viral for refusing to endorse the government policy on WFA. Reform got that result with a small volunteer group of 94 people and as you rightly point out, haven’t put much effort into Scotland because it seemed out...

Where was the policy to scrap the winter fuel allowance in the manifesto? You’re muddling their personal views with how they have governed. This dyed in the wool Thatcherite took Britain’s tax burden to the highest point since WW2. Likewise, Starmer has initiated welfare ‘cuts’ and unleashed...

Pretty much the same phenomenon for Rishi Sunak. He was simultaneously right wing and a ‘socialist’. It hasn’t happened yet, but my gut feeling is that Starmer will swing to the left rapidly if the Greens grow more support - their 9% is significant. In my view, the country needs a new ‘market...

Farage was put out of business in 2017 and 2019 when a) Brexit was settled and b) Boris Johnson promised an Australian points system. There’s an argument that Reform (Brexit Party) loaned that support, particularly in the north and midlands. Ultimately, the massive failures in immigration...

… so do nothing? One thing that fascinates me about the liberal-left is that on immigration, there almost no limit on numbers coming into the country.

If Labour got net migration to sub 100k p/a, tightened entry requirements, ‘stopped the boats’, deported arrivals such as; foreign criminals, people no longer meeting their visa conditions and denied asylum seekers… … Farage and Reform would be out of business. Given Starmer’s background, he...

The electorate has consistently voted for lower migration, does their voice not matter? Even so, the first port of call is addressing the root causes of declining fertility. How can governments make policies that support families should be top of the agenda rather than importing people. The...

It’s interesting, the scale of our migrations means that this element of the plan is unpractical. How would even go about doing this for 900k new arrivals in 2023 or 476k last year… you can’t. There are undoubtedly areas in major cities that have changed beyond recognition hence there is so...

I’ve not read this article fully but I’m familiar with the policies Denmark have put forward successfully. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1mgkd93r4yo.amp

Yes and no because it becomes a Ponzi scheme. Immigrants will get old and need pensions too so you create a vicious cycle of constantly needing more people. Data coming out of the OBR is low skilled migration is a net drain on the exchequer, the welfare bill for foreign born households has...