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What’s the alternative though? We couldn’t process anyone in the EU, for example. We’re trying to work with the EU (France) on this. If anything, Europe is starting to agree with the logic of processing in third countries. I’m open minded to practical solutions rather than platitudes. Labour’s...

Yes. Australia’s system is highly selective with quotas to numbers coming in. They have a policy to process asylum seekers in a 3rd country - Papa New Guinea.

Why do you continue to do this? You deliberately take someone’s words and twist them. Well, not all the land is habitable so the ‘only 3% of the space is used’ is equally a false narrative. More importantly, you need housing, roads, hospitals, schools and more. Who’s paying for all of this...

Well, this is a symbolic issue, isn’t it? If we can’t sort out something like illegal immigration, how do we possibly sort out legal immigration? Again, if we strive to be a high wage economy, this isn’t the way to do it and ironically, given the people supporting mass immigration, it’s a dream...

Our infrastructure? Bearing in mind we’re importing a population equivalent of a 2 Coventrys. Net migration in 1997 was around 50k. At one point, 25% of asylum claims of small boat crossing were from Albania. Which is a safe country. The system is clearly broken and schemes being abused.

Take a look at the political climate of said countries. Specifically how well their far right parties are doing - Greece has got multiple successor neo-nazi organisations to Golden Dawn.

Well Herts, you need a combination of short term and long term policies otherwise you’re in a perpetual cycle. Not all of the 750k or so migrants are NHS workers, in reality it’s a small portion of these figures. Bearing in mind there are approx 265k in the NHS workforce as a whole. In fact...

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...