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Your main complaint seemed to be that we don’t have the infrastructure for the current immigration numbers. So instead of worrying about 30k people fleeing war why not just stop some of the huge numbers of economic migrants from those countries? Or we can not take the Ukrainians and Hong...

Japan is fucked and hasn’t grown in decades. Australia lets in about the same amount per capita as we do if you exclude Ukraine and Hong Kong. And lots of people call the Australian and Japanese immigration policies far right.

Which Indians and Nigerians would you reject?

Our infrastructure is whatever we want it to be. The idea that “we’re a small country” is bollocks. Loads of room if we want.

So in your world we would never take any. I don’t think asylum seekers have an obligation to claim in the first country they land in. They do though. Neighbouring countries take an order of magnitude more.

29k in small boats last year. 253k from India, 141k from Nigeria. If it’s numbers you’re worried about why focus on asylum seekers?

Don’t most of our immigrants come from Ukraine, Hong Kong and other than that India, China, Pakistan and Nigeria right now?

How are they going to? We’re an island in the middle of a bunch of first world nations.

We can fit loads more people in too.

Nah come on man. I agree that we should take our fair share and that the madcap schemes the Tories come up with are both cruel and useless. But pretending the EU isn’t safe?

It’s a player I can get excited about.

Yeah we want all workers liberated, the question is what do we do before then? Practically though if you implement socialism with open borders it can’t work in a single country. Let’s say we brought UBI in and had no immigration controls for example. The answer is “well make every other...

Now THIS is a rumour!

Any of the old left really. One of many reasons the likes of Corbyn and McDonnell were always the wrong people for the modern “libertarian socialist” youth left movement.

There is TBF. Protectionism and government intervention are left wing concepts. Open borders are liberalism surely?

I just think we need an economy that makes use of the grads rather than one based on warehouse work and Deliveroo drivers TBH.

I think that misunderstands the relationship between the public and the right wing TBH. Farage doesn’t want fewer immigrants, he wants less tax. But no one will leave the EU to get stock brokers paying less tax. The right use issues that matter to the public but the left won’t touch to get...

Disagree. And 50% of school leavers don’t go to uni, it’s more like 30% but 50% of adults (I think) do over their lifetime. But uni shouldn’t be to get you a job and that’s not why the wealthy send their kids to it (for all his bluster I guarantee Sunak kids will all go). It should be to train...

Corbynite. https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2017/07/jeremy-corbyn-wholesale-eu-immigration-has-destroyed-conditions-british

This was the mistake Blair made and frankly it fucked up the education system. The purpose of schools and universities isn’t to try and meet the whims of the market and when they try they inevitably let down students. What’s needed is proper incentives for business to train up staff. The...