Donna

As visa issuance has been dropping rapidly, net migration to the UK is likely to fall further over 2026, with one forecast suggesting it might be less than 100,000 in 2026. The dilemma facing all European governments - between maintaining employment as societies age and accommodating political pressure to reduce immigration - has not been resolved by Brexit, and our estimates show that the decision to leave the EU made only a modest difference to the number of foreign-born workers in Britain.

Brexit and the ugly immigration policy it gave birth to…haven’t solved the dilemma of immigration vs prosperity. And how can they? Based, as they both are, on politicians and media refusing to have honest conversations with the public about the inevitable trade offs of turning prejudice into policy.

Oh.

Hello from haulage where tomorrow I'm phoning every customer to jack up their rate cards which otherwise would last for the year. Cheers Don, useless wanker.

Yes. There you go, all you moronic fans of these reprehensible egomaniacs, "Men of the people." Hopefully, they'll get it now.

Just when there were signs the UK economy was turning a corner, Trump does something else to absolutely fuck it. And then he has the gall to question whether we're a good ally.

Oh Sarah. The simpleton in you simply beams at us.
If we’re moronic enough to let them, Reform will fly flags everywhere and they will become a symbol of idiocy and prejudice as the country falls apart on their watch. The more flags there are, the worse their damage will be.

A Reform government will display Union flags on everything, right up until we replace them when we become the 51st state of America.

What a thread.

When Israel targeted Gaza’s water supply, people rightly called it out as a war crime, denying civilians the most basic supplies.

Texas GOP Candidate Recreated MLK Assassination, Reviewed Shooter’s Rifle Brandon Herrera then shot the MLK target dummy at close range

The GOP has a new candidate for Texas-23, Brandon Herrera. In addition to being a Mein Kampf-brandishing admirer of Adolf Hitler, Herrera is also well known for organizing a recreation of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr in which he gleefully pulled the trigger.

It is absolutely insane that the US appears to have targeted desalination plants first – putting them onto the board. Iran seems to have already retaliated against one in Bahrain. This is one of the most obvious ways this could spiral.

Nigel Farage To Cosy Up To Trump At Maro-A-Lago Dinner Amid President's Starmer Row The Reform leader has flown to the States to sit down with Trump.

If he did actually meet with Trump the headlines should be Trump attacks Starmer and UK following meeting with Farage whose sole aim is to make Trump attack Starmer by selling off country's interests to him. Thus a traiterous offence/treason. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nigel-...

They have nothing but contempt for the British people. Nothing.

It really is something to see politicians, commentators and media outlets whose whole identity is based on being so-called ‘patriots’ frothing with excitement as they line up to back a deranged megalomaniac who consistently attempts to belittle and bully the country they claim to love

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper responds to President Trump’s latest outburst.

“The job of the British PM is to take decisions in the national interest of the U.K., not in the interests of other countries… we don’t outsource foreign policy to other countries”.

#bbclaurak

Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage want Britain to blindly follow Trump into this illegal war, even though the President has no plan for what comes next.

There is nothing patriotic about outsourcing Britain’s foreign policy to Donald Trump.

When Brexit was slammed for being an act of pure prejudice, all the Brexiters howled about ‘sovereignty’ and ‘taking back control’.
Now, the very same people howl that we should just obey Trump and put our country in the firing line.
They lied about everything. All of it. Every single part.

American president who purports to care about the safety and security of women and children let this monster go free

Of all the complaints against Starmer, the most absurd is that it's "weak" to have a Cabinet that doesn't just rubber-stamp what The Leader wants on questions of war & peace.

I'd take Cabinet govt - in which ministers kick the tyres of big decisions - over the kneel-and-obey model of Farage any day

We could write their script for them. We’re so goddam tired of their script. But equally, we could write the useless, waste-of-time questions they’re asked by these feeble media figures who never hold them to account and who allow the bullshit to drown out the truth.

The people who told us austerity was crucial, Brexit would be brilliant, Boris Johnson’s amazing and Liz Truss is an economic genius, are now insisting the country should join an illegal war

#BBCLauraK

Starmer’s position is entirely consistent with what he wrote about Iraq in 2003, a fact of enormous inconvenience to just about everybody currently criticising it. Happily for them, just like the entire bloody Chilcot Inquiry it is apparently very easy to ignore.

Is there anything worse than sucking up to Trump, making us look absolutely desperate and pathetic, only to have him throw it back in our faces anyway? It is excruciating and degrading.
Please God lets be a bit more Spanish

I haven't seen it yet, but I have a memory 30+ years ago of her saying, "As long as the people of Palestine are suppressed, they will keep blowing themselves up."
Or along those lines. Was I dreaming?

On Tony Blair’s intervention…
1) Well, he would say that, wouldn’t he…
2) It’s not “America asking”. It’s Trump raging…
3) Seriously now… STFU.

A juxtaposition for the ages…

Declaring "Mission Accomplished" - that always works out well for US Presidents

A couple of weeks ago, my daughter had to go to A&E. Seen and sorted in under 2 hours!