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He’s a man from yesteryear, his chance was in 2015 and his politics (as well as Starmer and Streeting) has moved on from the Blair/Brownism.

I don’t think so either and it’s a seat the Greens have done well in since 2010. Which is an interesting thought because if Clive Lewis steps down for Burnham, there’s probably a good chance the Greens win the seat which would be a humiliation for Burnham. Political circumstances change, we...

Albania is a safe country… 1 in 5 of the Albanian population in the UK is in jail, it’s clearly linked to organised crime and praying upon useful idiots to defend this.

Personally, I felt the government shouldn’t have scrapped Rwanda. That said, it seems like the plan was doomed to fail because of the ECHR and there’s a few legal experts claiming Mahmood’s reforms will fail for the same reason. We’ll wait and see, the ‘1 in, 1 out’ was supposed to a game...

People on living on benefits and not in work aren’t ‘working class’… I don’t know why you and others are getting upset at the use of the term ‘underclass’. It’s a widely used term in sociology.

Clive Lewis’ seat is such a seat, but Zia Yusef was goading Burnham into running saying Labour’s majority is smaller there than in Runcorn. Public posturing or do Refom have internal polling to suggest they’d run him close? Probably the former, Lab-Green-LD polled at 73.8% in 2024...

Airports are classed as a port of entry. The difference is that you need to have all documentation at the ready in an airport. Lee Anderson was mocked for this, but why would someone from Albania cross via smal boat rather than a £25 Wizz Air flight to claim asylum? No, this conversation...

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.