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Not all immigrants go into the NHS. In fact, our reliance on migrant healthcare workers is a result of failures in policy elsewhere e.g. caps on uni places and stagnant wages in the NHS. As for cultural factors, we want people to assimilate and share values of openness, religious/political...

Australia inspired the Rwanda policy. Would you say Australia is run by a ‘far right’ Labor government? In fact, many EU countries are going to consider adopting schemes like the Rwanda scheme. Controlling your borders is a politically neutral. If Labour has an alternative policy for...

The societal impact of importing 750k people is a huge. There’s housing, education and the NHS to consider as well as infrustructure like public transport and roads. That’s without considering cultural factors like social cohesion and so on. I’m not saying this because of our previous topics...

No, the Slovenia game is about £200 (excluding additional fees) on 3rd party websites! That’s about the limit I’d pay I reckon. I’ll chance it when I’m out there and even if you don’t have a ticket, it’s worth it! I did Euro 2016 as a broke student and had a great time! Even if I did get...

No, I understand what intrinsic mean. The problem is, you talk as if we haven’t seen what ‘far left’ policies in practice look like.

Booked my flights out to Germany at the weekend! Haven’t got AL approved by work yet and haven’t got a return date in mind…

The AfD has appeared to become increasingly radical since 2019 who appear to have met with neo-Nazi groups to plan mass deportations and so on. Corbyn shared platforms with ‘friends’ in Hamas and the IRA - would you describe him as a sympathiser or supporter? Why have socialist and communist...

That’s your view on things. Look up Paul Embrey for a socialist/Blue Labour take on immigration. Even to satisfy your own curiosity.

To clarify, the 50% school leavers to uni was a target - not an outcome. I didn’t make that clear at all, my bad. I went to uni so know everything you just said. Frankly, there are too many uni places and this well meaning policy was partly a consideration when tripling tutition fees and that...

Yep, the 50% of school leavers going to uni was a mistake in hindsight. I won’t knock the honourable intentions.

Trade unionists are also concerned with low income migration and this was the case historically too. It’s not an issue that impacts me directly, but indirect issue of housing prices does. Our economy has become overly reliant on low skill migration.

Immigration might not be an issue for you, but for the electorate, it’s always a top 5 issues. After the cost of living crisis, 18% of people said immigration is their single most important issue. How are they different? Well, their background isn’t rooted in neo-nazi movements and both Farage...

It will, one way or the other. Either the priorities of the electorate are resolved by existing parties or new parties. The last thing we need as a country is to import the latest craze of European politics; rehabilitated and ‘genuinely’ far right major political party. On the skills gap, this...

You’ll be surprised, people rise as quickly as they’ll fall. There’s a lot of pressure on Labour to sort out; immigration, housing and the NHS. With the global political situation, the demands for increased defence spending as well as increasing interest rates will take money away from...

The Tory party will find a way to repurpose itself. It’s been one of the organic and flexible political parties in the western world. For better or worst depending on your viewpoint. Some interesting parallels with the Canadian Tories as Farage pointed out who themselves have been took over...

The electorate wants net migration to be reduced. Pre-Tony Blair the figure was less than 50k per year and the latest figures it’s up to 750k or thereabouts. Even Keir Starmer gave the ‘read my lips’ followed by a promise to get net migration down. I’m not sure the state can manage as the...

I imagine we’d be in for Windass on something like a 2 year deal d for experience and versatility. Both played a similar amount of games and Windass scored more goals and more assists. In a straight shootout, I’d opt for Windass. It’s not an inspiration signing though, it must be said.

I did see they believe that PL football should be aired free. No idea how that is practical…

Well, immigration is an issue in this country that could truly turn toxic if it’s not resolved this election. The electorate thought Brexit would resolve the issue and it hasn’t and people are angered by this, left (blue labour) and right alike. A quick look over the pond to the continent and...

They owe £190m in transfer this summer and have £2m coming in. They don’t have a pot to piss in. I’d have been worried had they got promoted. MVE is a players we shouldn’t even entertain selling for a penny below £20m all in. He’s got a lot of attributes to suit PL football from Day 1.