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Deliberately wumming.

This is clearly partisan. The 2019 manifesto did lack detail but to claim the 2024 one was comprehensive is just WUM territory lol. I didn’t even vote Tory in 2019 so you don’t convince me about how shite they were.

That is what Australia did. Like our current policy, they tried paying Indonesia to stop the boats and they weren’t doing it because it’s not in their interest to. So they started turning boats back and escorted them all the way to Indonesia. It caused a diplomatic ruckus and no doubt this...

It is stopping the boats… just in the Med versus the Channel. Of course we should do both.

Politically, that might not be possible. A large majority is only useful if the backbenchers back the government and as of right now, it’s clear the government is constantly tip toeing over the prospect of a rebellion. More specifically, you vote for a manifesto. The reason the tories could...

Outside the EU. The Mediterranean should be policed by the various navies to prevent small boat crossings. In principle, the UK should cooperate in that endeavour. Frankly speaking, the right of asylum should be reformed to be limited to the continent of origin. Everything else being at the...

He’s a man from yesteryear, his chance was in 2015 and his politics (as well as Starmer and Streeting) has moved on from the Blair/Brownism.

I don’t think so either and it’s a seat the Greens have done well in since 2010. Which is an interesting thought because if Clive Lewis steps down for Burnham, there’s probably a good chance the Greens win the seat which would be a humiliation for Burnham. Political circumstances change, we...

Albania is a safe country… 1 in 5 of the Albanian population in the UK is in jail, it’s clearly linked to organised crime and praying upon useful idiots to defend this.

Personally, I felt the government shouldn’t have scrapped Rwanda. That said, it seems like the plan was doomed to fail because of the ECHR and there’s a few legal experts claiming Mahmood’s reforms will fail for the same reason. We’ll wait and see, the ‘1 in, 1 out’ was supposed to a game...

People on living on benefits and not in work aren’t ‘working class’… I don’t know why you and others are getting upset at the use of the term ‘underclass’. It’s a widely used term in sociology.

Clive Lewis’ seat is such a seat, but Zia Yusef was goading Burnham into running saying Labour’s majority is smaller there than in Runcorn. Public posturing or do Refom have internal polling to suggest they’d run him close? Probably the former, Lab-Green-LD polled at 73.8% in 2024...

Airports are classed as a port of entry. The difference is that you need to have all documentation at the ready in an airport. Lee Anderson was mocked for this, but why would someone from Albania cross via smal boat rather than a £25 Wizz Air flight to claim asylum? No, this conversation...

Played like he was pissed up.

Andy Burnham isn’t guaranteed to win a seat even if he does get a by-election. I’d keep an eye on Shabana Mahmood. Knowing Labour members, they’ll pick the most left wing candidate and it’ll go badly.

I remember believing he’d be a quality signing, came v highly rated from Scotland!

Poland have done this following Belarus weaponising irregular border crossings. Why shouldn’t the UK and EU members follow suit?

They’re in office, but the government is hardly in power. Take the Tories under May, couldn’t get her Brexit Deal through and was ousted. Boris comes in to change course and eventually put his deal to the electorate. One of the inherent issues this government has is that its mandate is unclear...

Whilst destroying your documents because skilled professionals who want to contribute to our society will do this…

There is no practical because we’re an island… We should suspend (or even abolish) the right to all asylum applications at the border. This is what countries like Poland do despite being an EU member. This is where the convention is hopelessly outdated and unequipped to deal with...