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This is the best part of the night, the northern seats racing, literally competing, to be the first seat to declare the result. I remember 2019 really well, when they recounted Blyth because they thought the Tories had won, you knew it was going to be a long night for Labour.

Iirc, the Greens have come close to winning in Norwich, Bristol and of course Brighton.

Bearing in mind Reform are projected to hit 13 seats, the ‘right wing’ vote is not too far behind the Labour vote. A majority of this proportion should see Labour in government for 10 years but if they’re complacent, they too could be overturned at the next election. The tories winning 131...

You haven’t even looked into the policy…

Are you sure? Besides, how has Anglo-Franco cooperation got us so far? We’ve agreed a £500m (3 years) deal for detention centres and border officers in France. Given that I’d approx double the money we currently give the French government, I’m sceptical it’ll resolve the issue of small boat...

Smart-arse. Post-Brexit, the border is literally in the Irish Sea because there was this little known thing called The Troubles that happened when there were policed border posts on the island of Ireland. The Good Friday Agreement outlined the need to avoid a ‘hard’ border. In practice, the...

Denmark is a far right and racist country? Interesting take, not sure many would agree with you on that.

Yes, that’s precisely what it is. The technical term is ‘offshore processing’ and both the USA and Australia have such systems. It’s a deterrent against people illegally entering the country whilst their asylum is processed. Of course it is harder to remove someone who’s asylum application has...

The NI-ROI border isn’t policed and there is freedom of movement between that border. Hence ROI complaining migrants were crossing into Ireland via NI. Ironically, citing the Rwanda policy as the reason for this. As for France, I’m sure it’s been considered but a) France would need to agree to...

With respect to Tavares, he needs to prove he can be a star player in L1 to show he has a future here. If we’re in a position where we need him off the bench, we either haven’t recruited well or we have an injury crisis.

Third country processing is normal, Australia processes claims of asylum in Papa New Guinea. No one would claim the Australian government is far right. Ultimately, the UK needs a deterrent against illegal crossings. Realistically, what 3rd country can the UK viably use? The EU is a free...

There’s the control measure that Denmark have too. They’ve designated Syria as a ‘safe’ country to deport illegal refeugees yet we vacillate over whether or not Rwanda is ‘safe’ or not. Likewise, they’ve passed ‘ghetto laws’ to avoid build ups of ‘non-western’ and low-income zones. I don’t...

They’d probably close loopholes around dependents. We issued something like 145k visa for healthcare workers, with 205k dependents and there’s obviously not 145k more healthcare workers. It’s clear that our visa system is not being policed correctly. This is stirring legitimate anger in people...

I see where you went with that now, you were adding to my point. You’re right, a lot particularly eurosceptic parties in the Eurozone backed away from talking about exiting the EU, even if they philosophically agree with Brexit. On that note, I think both the ‘far right’ and ‘far left’ in...

The game is gone.

I haven’t said anything about Frexit. Even Macron reckons it would be tough referendum to win (to remain) if they had their own. The big thing making Frexit more impractical than Brexit is membership of the Euro. It’s far riskier to people’s money leaving the EU and changing currency.

When Blair became PM, net migration was around 50k so it’s a lot easier to argue the virtues of immigration when numbers are low. Against a backdrop of NHS waiting lists, overcrowded schools, overcrowded roads and a generation of people struggling with exploding rents and mortgages… those...

Look at France atm, up until 2017 they were governed by their centre-right and centre-left mainstream parties. Macron comes along and as of the last election held just now, the choice France has is the National Rally, France Unbowed and Macron’s centrist party collapsing into 3rd place...

Are those commitments worth the paper they’re written on? Probably not.

Ironically, immigration filters into housing, education, healthcare and investment in society. If this next government doesn’t get a handle on immigration, expect the centre of politics to crumble. As it has in France, Netherlands and soon, in Germany and more. As with Brexit wiping out UKIP...