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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 This is where the convention is hopelessly outdated and unequipped to deal with...

The thing about conventions is that they’re not laws… you don’t actually have follow them. If we have to suspend or leave conventions to achieve the political goals, so be it. What’s the % of skilled workers who are asylum seekers? Post-Brexit, only around 5% of arrivals were skilled workers...

Do you have a %? The vast majority will be unskilled economic migrants. Thats the reality and just because less than 1% of them may be doctors does not justify people like this comedian parroting this phrase. IIRC, the other day you were questioning who even says ‘doctors, nurses, engineers...

Agree on that point, but the government of the day had no control over the Ukraine war or COVID. The Tories being kicked out of office followed a broad trend that government parties were being kicked out off office at the next election. Starmer came into office with a huge majority, no new...

If we’re being honest, the chances are that small boat migrants are delivering takeaways, living on the welfare state than being doctors, nurses engineers or scientists. She’s using a trope to avoid difficult questions.

Another hack on BBC QT claiming small boat migrants are ‘doctors, nurses, engineers and scientists’…

Fair enough, it was SBT that was referencing the ‘workhouse’ and therefore, thought you were echoing that sentiment.

Starmer is 100% more incompetent than Johnson. Throughly dislike both of them. Johnson can at least look at his premiership and argue that COVID derailed his Government’s agenda. Starmer is throwing away a huge majority with no real external crisis, everything has been self-inflicted. I don’t...

I have numerous times. 4m people are on UC with no requirement to work… this has quadrupled from 2021. Driven by 18-24 year olds claiming for mental health disorders. With respect, I don’t think you or other have come to terms with this at all because it’s massively inconvenient to confront...

Snarky comments don’t wish the problem away unfortunately. Yep, I know several people who have milked their diagnosis of mental health/behavioural disorders to get PIP. ^ not even a moral judgement, it’s what the individuals say themselves. Again, plenty of people who actively choose to live...

Which ironically, will bring down the entire system over time. The treasury owes £5.8tn in future public sector pensions alone. Do you understand the differences between how public service pensions differ from the private sector? Public sector pensions should be defined contributions plan...

It’s because you keep mentioning the need for pension reform. An observation I’ve (and probably Grendel) made is that you seem unaware just how much of the 50% figure you mentioned earlier is made up of public sector worker pensions. The current gap on public sector pension pay outs v...

The clue is in the name ‘Working class’… This is a rabbit hole, but if we’re splitting hairs, the minimum state pensions eligibility is 10 years of NI contributions… As @fernandopartridge points out, NI credits are paid on claimants behalf. In practice, it’s v difficult to not be eligible for...

It’s a huge own goal too because a massive % of the pension bill is public sector pensions. IIRC, BSB and others have argued against reforming public sector pensions. Without being too harsh, there’s a certain cowardice to reform various systems that obvious dysfunctional. Labour was founded as...