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Did you mean wouldn’t underestimate? In which case, I’d agree it’s foolish to underestimate him. He cuts through to voters who traditionally would be Labour voters with conservative ideas.

Well, GDP per capita has been steadily decreasing since the Blair years. Rents and house prices are up, NHS waiting times are up and schools overcrowded. There’s multiple factors, no doubt net immigration being high as it is plays a role here. It’s an issue that consistently is a top 3 concern...

Exactly - it’s about realignment of the right because they’re an insurgent party. They’ve just won 15% of the popular vote. Farage’s stated goal is to lead a hostile- takeover the tories.

Their goals were different to Labour and Conservative. These parties needed a plan for government. Parties like Reform and Greens, their goals are for realignment of the the right and left respectively. As a party, they had an interesting policy on the NHS. Things like lowering tax for front...

Lowering taxation - that was their main pitch to voters. If you think it’s just about immigration, you underestimate their threat. Reform ran Labour close on many northern seats so Starmer can’t rest easy thinking he’ll have 2 terms guaranteed.

Returning taxation net migration to the same levels as the Blair government is scarcely making yourself unelectable. Looking at the early results in Labour strongholds, they could easily lose a lot of seats to Reform if they don’t sort out migration. Especially if the Tories-Reform have some...

They are challenging very hard in Labour strongholds as well as Tory safe seats too. They could well be on the precipice of a major breakthrough in 2029 at the current rate.

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...