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Streeting and Mahmood were strong appointments for a Labour gov.

Men drinking pints, sounds terrible

Dominic Cummings on X: "🚨🚨STATEMENT ON THE INSPECTOR CLOUSEAU 'INQUIRY' 🚨🚨 The Inquiry has been a mix of Inspector Clouseau, coverups, and rewriting history. The lawyers have paid themselves millions and made understanding of what happened even worse. Some context for this afternoon’s report. - I" / X 🚨🚨STATEMENT ON THE INSPECTOR CLOUSEAU 'INQUIRY' 🚨🚨 The Inquiry has been a mix of Inspector Clouseau, coverups, and rewriting history. The lawyers have paid themselves millions and made understanding of what happened even worse. Some context for this afternoon’s report. - I

Worth reading his response: x.com/Dominic2306/...

Oh no, not the SPAD code. His response is worth a read: x.com/Dominic2306/...

You're welcome, and thank you.

She is also a holocaust denier. Suggest not boosting her.

The people coming would mostly be bottom of the list for any prioritised legal route, so unless we take in tens of millions, probably more, or prioritise young men from France over women and children from refugee camps, the answer needs to be that they simply don't come, and if they do, don't stay.

It didn't feel like we were winning.

Most have already gone - to Greens and Reform. Probably easier to win the Reform ones back.

She said in the House that the plans do not include taking jewellery. Will have to see the detailed plans ofc.

The polling was done just before the specific policies were announced, so yes, same broad direction but there may be differences with those two.

Hah yes. We'd still have them.

Elect them to it - they'd be more engaged than the current crop of twitter scrollers waiting to give their own speech.

I mean this genuinely - that sounds like a sad decision you made given your longstanding support. I sympathise and respect it.

Green voters support similar immigration restrictions by an overwhelming proportion.

I am, but I don't think that applies to More in Common, who are pretty firmly centrist / soft left.

Fair enough, and there will be plenty like you, but I think Labour have clearly shown here their broad direction of travel.

I agree.

If they do, they won't be representing their voters, who on the left overwhelmingly support greater restrictions on immigration:

fwiw my prediction is that immigration will become a settled issue, with greater restrictions agreed by all but the Greens, and a fiscal crisis will shift Labour left towards wealth taxes as the way out, and Reform right towards capitalism and small state. So that will be the dividing line.

Support for reduced immigration and stopping Channel crossings is high enough for both sides of the divide to keep it as part of their platform. They'll find other things to disagree on.

When the figures are this extreme, then yeah, I'd say these policies will prove popular. Who knows though - we'll find out!

Poll was done before these specific policies were announced, but broadly in same direction.

Partially fair - poll was done before the specific policies were announced. They aren't miles apart though.

Fair

Agreed, it's winter now. If the boats start up again daily when we are in Spring, the daily crossing numbers would be the final straw. The policies they are announcing are insanely popular, including among leftwing voters.

Taking action on the thing that tops polls as the most important issue (immigration), with policies that leftwing voters support, may in fact improve your polling, actually.

This is the standard BS take, but misses that the policies are extremely popular amongst leftwing voters as well. This platform is not the real world.

A large majority of leftwing voters support these measures, including the Greens.

What do you think of polling like this, which suggests that leftwing voters are firmly behind the measures too?