95% of Reform acolytes who live as tax exile immigrants dont soeak the native language of the country they live in

What that a cheap drone can blow up a cumbersome slow,armoured vehicle? Or a unit sat in a bunker playing tge equivalent of video games can destroy an invading armed unit? Im afraid it certainly does sir.

Like Isabel Oakeshott complaining about too immigrants, Muslims, sharia law in London from her immigrant enclave in Dubai. How's the Arabic lessons coming along Isabel?

Pretty sure it shows a lot and shows how much money is squandered on items irrelevant to modern warfare like certain ships, tanks and probably the wrong type of military personnel

"Multiculturalism in Dubai has fsiled"

And where is it the immigrant Jim Ratcliffe lives? Isn't he overrunning Monaco?

Masterful summary!

I actually think some of the horrible stuff they have been doing on immigration has been to lay the groundwork for this. Neutralise the immigration issue in the first half of the parliament, so that when Freedom of Movement comes back round it isn't a killer issue for rejoining.

No I know you didnt mean that. My comment above was just on where things are today. I dont agree that he is bad at being a PM, although opinion polls say otherwise. I think he is a decent technocratic PM and yes the strategy of trying to appeal outside of the base really has been counterproductive.

Its ludicrous isn't it? The Mail and Telegraph I bet cant believe they have managed to get things to this point in just 18 months. The Taylor Swift thing - I mean was it not just normal for a Government representative to be at a major event? It happens the world over.

I totally get the immigration argument. I get the winter fuel allowance mess. But really has it been as bad as this apocalyptic cliff face thats presented? Its hysterical.

Remember the weeks of outrage about Taylor Swift? Barely mention of Reform being paid by the Russian Government to make pro Russian speeches in the European Parliament. Not a chance Nathan Gill was the only one.

His links to Russia. Wasn't he always on Russia Today at one point?

Why a decade away? Rejoining the Single Market, if there was willing in this country would probably only take a couple of years? And its you who is cherry picking - Labour has done much more realignment, than divergence and is continuing down the path of realignment on a number of fronts.

And I miss European freedom of movement and think Labour should fight the next election on rejoining the EU. Im no isolationist.

650,000 was still pretty high. As I mentioned earlier Trump was elected on immigration. Farrage is nothing without immigration. I dont think its about chasing the far right votes. Its about nullifing the issue. And its hardly a new issue. Wilson and Blair both had to do it

Starmer is a decent, underrated polician and the Telegraph and Mail have done a number on them. They cant believe they have managed to get a party with one of the largest majorities in history to be on the verge of throwing in the towel after 18 months.

What else is there? Polanski whose economic policies are the equivalent of homeopathy? Two faces of Fascism on the right? An eccentric local issues party dressed up as Liberals? All I've heard as an alternate for Labour is dragging up the corpse of Ed Millibands PM ambitions.

Totally and I know that there are misconceptions that everyone is "coming over on a dingy". However immigration does fade as an issue. And im actually starting to feel that perhaps we are past the high water mark of immigration anger for the time being.

It was 944,000 in 2023. Thats a rounding to a million, so im hardly exaggerating. Im fully aware that restrictions came in under Sunak too and totally agree that net emigration will be damaging. Limited FOM is back for under 30s soon and the issue had to be nullified or face a Farrage Government

I agree. However figures of 1 million a year is more than the country will tolerate. Remember Trump got reelected on migration. Without that stick he wouldn't have won what was a relatively close election. And Farrage only has immigration. Take that away and he has very little

To be fair they haven't really had time yet. However by all reports migration is down massively. I dont think that's a great thing, however was there really another option to fight fascism? I really not sure making a positive case for net migration of nearly 1 million a year was ever going fly.

Did they not need to get a real grip on immigration? The issue needed to be nullified. Possibly to go into the next election on the premises of going back into the Singke Market? That could only happen once Freedom of Movement could be tolerated?

Similarly if the Employer NI Rebate had just been cancelled, employers NI increase could have bern halved. Ridiculously it was doubled to 10k, which no small business thanked them for.

I actually think its been the Chancellor that has done the damage. I mean going right back if the winter fuel payment had been announced at the same time as the pretty generous 6.5% increase in basic pension, nobody would have batted an eyelid. Naively it was done weeks earlier.

They are doing loads of stuff Labour were elected to do? Its a pretty radical government and it puzzles me that even political geeks dobt see it

Boris Johnson was Prime Minister. Mandleson was an ambassador

Do you really think its worth wrecking the government for a bit of a tonal change on immigration, which might not happen anyway? This is what the right wing media are braying for. Im imaging that now immigration is coming under control, Labour will be saying a lot less about it

Changing leader would be ridiculously self indulgent - something the left revels in. Its a pretty left wing government that is doing a lot of things- employment rights, renter rights, rail nationalisation, net zero. It would be a huge victory for the Daily Telegraph abd Daily Mail.

Netflix etc have gone up way more than 50p a month.