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Why? Johnson wanted migration to increase. That’s the accusation Dominic Cummings has levelled and imo, it’s credible. There are reports picked up that the ‘Boriswave’ was allowed to crush inflationary wage increases. The points system introduced by Johnson’s government is actually the basis...

In my view, it’s become the most important issue facing the country atm. There’s a reason Reform is leading in the polls. It’s probably the easiest issue to fix because all it entails is introducing and enforcing controls. Restricting dependents alone is credited with reducing net migration by...

If we beat PNE away and break the Deepdale curse, it’s written in the stars.

Norway doesn’t have mass migration. Their peak was 28k net migration. High for that population, yes but that country has immediately rowed back on this. As for Canada, there’s similarities with the UK and public opinion is turning sharply against immigration. What you omit is that Canada has a...

It’s quite funny that @SBT doesn’t seem to see that the spending averages out for the period.

Canada’s healthcare system is an insurance based system, ironically. We’ll skirt over that fact.

What a silly thing to say when your graph shows the funding wasn’t cut at all and spending increases slowed down. Important context here was there was a global recession too. The country will have a wider conversation about it funds the NHS in our lifetime because its funding model isn’t...

Canada’s wages are stagnating, hasn’t recovered to pre-pandemic levels. Coincidentally, at the same point net migration has reached its highest point. Sweden has turned its on immigration and has introduced several measures to make entering and settling in Sweden more difficult. It’s reducing...

You say this with a straight face despite the fact that the coalition never cut NHS spending. ‘Real term’ cuts aren’t cuts, you can’t run a business (or a healthcare system) like that. Besides, this government has increased the NHS budget above ‘real terms’ and we’ll see how they get stuck...

Can you find me a country that has high wages, high levels of low skill migration and a comprehensive welfare state? You can’t because the priorities are contradictory. I’m genuinely interested in your view on this next question too. What’s more important to you; The welfare state or mass...

Did this not happen then? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2kjdjylnqyo.amp

If you’re into history, ‘The Rest is History’ is a great a podcast with two world class historians. They cover all sorts of historical topics so anything that takes your fancy. On to books specifically, Tom Holland’s trilogy of books on Rome are all v good.

‘The system was about to collapse’ doesn’t ring particularly true the way they fast tracked rioters and people who posted mean tweets. Rioters, more than happy to clamp down because no one wants civil disorder. Again, the back drop is that the government made it it priority to bring these...

There’s game state. Watford ‘dominated’ the 2nd half but from our POV, the game was all but over and you rightly point that out. Had the game been 2-0, you’d expect us to attack the second half more aggressively to kill it off. As it happened, we did the hard work in the 1st half. Looking at...

The government did sound tough as the riots happened so it’s not even a secret. It happened at the same time Labour decided to release criminals early which predictably went down like a lead balloon. She did plead guilty and she claims she did so because she was allegedly pressured into it.

Ok, what’s the evidence here tweeting specifically incited violence? None. There’s an implicit acceptance in your response that the harshness of the sentence was politically motivated and that’s kind of the point here. 12 months for sexual assault of a minor is a joke and allows predators to...

We’re not even a third way into the season. Last season EMC actually out scored and assisted the same amount of goals as Tats in a lot less minutes. I might even be willing to take you up on a charity bet if you’re this confident? End of the season, EMC has more goals than Tats, winner gets £20...

How do you quantify that specifically? Is there any direct evidence that the tweet lead to violence? Now weigh that up against the 2 women sexually assault where the crime, perpetrator and victims are quantifiable. Under normal circumstances, Lucy Connolly wouldn’t have got 31 months and...

The numbers don’t lie and we have all last season to draw upon.

On immigration, perhaps the political class should do what the electorate has instructed them to do. Every government from 2005 has been elected to control migration and the opposite has happened. If a party was elected maintain/increase immigration, that’d be fair enough because there was a...