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Post by mattmw on Aug 10, 2023 13:38:29 GMT 1
None of it is working, but Labour aren't the miracle some on here claim they will be. My gripe with Labour and it always has been is their constant attacks on the so called middle class! Start from the top down, not the couple with two kids that have done "ok" for themselves. Point taken. Look at Reeves response to the freezing of tax thresholds, for which she was rightly taken to task by Nandy. Apparently, she was comfortable with leaving things as they are, as it would hit the middle classes more. Madness! www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1747010/Rachel-Reeves-income-tax-threshold-bbc-today-labourI think any party going into the next election claiming they aren't going to tax the middle classes more are either lying or don't understand the economy. The last 10 years, and in particular the last 5 years have seen the economy really stagnate and there is no sign of a annual growth rate of 3-4% for some time - quite likely the next decade. Without that more tax is on the way for everyone if services are to even be maintained, nevermid improved. As the biggest group its the middle earners who are going to get hit the most. Whether they like it or not Labour, Liberal Democrates and Conservatives are all in the same boat with tax. The freezing of tax rates is a rather underhand way to do it, arguably the easiest way to get more tax into government coffers and maybe doesn't scare the public as much. You are quite right though middle income earners are really heading for tough times over the next 5 years regardless of who governs for the next 5 years. |
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Post by ssshrew on Aug 11, 2023 13:18:48 GMT 1
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Post by staffordshrew on Aug 11, 2023 17:18:59 GMT 1
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Post by davycrockett on Aug 12, 2023 8:42:20 GMT 1
He just can’t get it right. Two main pledges scuppered this week with hospital waiting lists increasing to record levels and immigration numbers increasing to record levels (arrivals in one day) Jenerick made a personal pledge earlier this week that it was a safe environment to house people. It isn’t! How are flights to Rwanda going? |
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Post by northwestman on Aug 14, 2023 15:29:43 GMT 1
Cats in a sack. Now Patel is attacking Braverman and Jenrick. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/14/priti-patel-criticises-plan-to-house-asylum-seekers-at-essex-raf-baseThe former home secretary Priti Patel has accused the government of being “secretive” and “evasive” about plans to house asylum seekers on a disused RAF base which has become the target of protests and legal challenges. She demanded answers from Suella Bravermen, the current home secretary, in a letter, saying there was an “alarming and staggering” lack of clarity about how long the site would be used for and how many people would be accommodated there. |
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Post by staffordshrew on Aug 14, 2023 17:37:58 GMT 1
Seems Sunak's "Stop the boats" pledge was as empty a three word slogan as "Get Brexit done" and the rest. Best not bother with any more, they have a habit of blowing up in your face.
Try a longer, not so catchy, pledge "Get asylum claims done, decide the fate of all those in hotels/boats/tents so they can earn their keep working here or be sent back".
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Post by northwestman on Sept 16, 2023 11:23:02 GMT 1
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/15/small-boats-industry-science-brexit-made-our-lives-worseStarmer is saying there is no point reversing Brexit, just as he is proposing a solution to a problem caused or aggravated by Brexit and its aftermath. The connection is spelled out in a report on the small boat phenomenon by Prof Thom Brooks of Durham University, published in February. Can you guess what it concluded was “the primary factor behind the current problem”? The government’s post-Brexit deal, and specifically its failure to reach a “returns agreement with the EU”, whereby unauthorised migrants to the UK could be returned to the first safe EU country they had entered. Before Brexit, there was just such an arrangement. But it expired once Britain left – and the government put nothing in its place. People traffickers spotted the opportunity almost immediately, offering to take people to a country, Britain, from where they could no longer be sent back. Staggeringly, Brooks found “no records of any individuals travelling by small boat to claim asylum in 2017 or before” – not one case. But as “the UK prepared to leave its returns agreement, small boat journeys started”. And the people making those journeys grew in number, from the low hundreds in 2018 to tens of thousands in 2023. No wonder those Brexit-backers who voted to leave the EU because they did not want Britain to be a refuge for desperate people seeking asylum are disappointed: when Britain was in the EU, covered by a returns deal, there was no opening for the traffickers to exploit. Now there is.
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Post by staffordshrew on Sept 16, 2023 22:38:17 GMT 1
Farage and Boris, they got us into this mess. Does what they did for this country count as treason?
With regard to the barges, why did government ministers actually want to take on the responsibility of being "hoteliers"?
The barge is now out of commission until all the disused water pipe "ends" are removed as they may harbour legenaires. If ever the barge does get used then along will come an outbreak of winter vomiting bug or somesuch, that's why you pay someone else to act as "hotelier"....
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Post by northwestman on Jan 25, 2024 12:13:20 GMT 1
www.opendemocracy.net/en/rwanda-scheme-asylum-seekers-bwiza-riverside-estate-suella-braverman/Homes that Suella Braverman claimed would house asylum seekers deported to Rwanda have already been sold, openDemocracy can reveal. The then home secretary toured the Bwiza Riverside Estate in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, last year during an official visit aimed at promoting the UK’s controversial asylum deal with the African country. While being shown around the estate, Braverman praised the homes as “really beautiful” and said she liked the decor so much that she wanted to hire the interior designer for her own house. But an undercover openDemocracy reporter posing as an international investor was told by the developers’ sales team that asylum seekers would not be housed there.
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Post by servernaside on Jan 27, 2024 13:50:37 GMT 1
I wonder when Sir Starmer is going to come up with a plan for immigration, we already have a tunnel, but a bridge perhaps, to provide safe crossing and avoid those pesky dinghies.
As ever, Labour are long on criticism and short on policies......non-existent actually.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2024 17:09:56 GMT 1
I wonder when Sir Starmer is going to come up with a plan for immigration, we already have a tunnel, but a bridge perhaps, to provide safe crossing and avoid those pesky dinghies. As ever, Labour are long on criticism and short on policies......non-existent actually. Labours do have an immigration and asylum policy. One of the main points of it is to actually increase the amount of people processing asylum claims. The Tories spent the first 5 years in power cutting over 30% of the staff processing claims, but since then they increased it to over 60% higher than in 2010. The only problem is that they got rid of experienced staff and replaced them with people that are quite frankly not up to the job, so much so that productivity has dropped to 60% below 2010. The main issues are that there is a shortage of technical specialist staff to provide guidance and support to asylum decision makers; inadequate training for asylum interviews; low morale and high turnover among decision makers, attributed to a pressure to meet targets and a lack of career progression and perhaps most telling the removal in 2019 of an official service standard, to decide 98% of ‘straightforward cases’ within six months.
If you have low moral, high staff turnover, lack of training, no career progression and then do away with service standards you are not going to have efficient workplace. Maybe the job cuts during the austerity years under Cameron were not such a great idea.
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Post by staffordshrew on Mar 1, 2024 20:02:18 GMT 1
I wonder if Rishi is wishing he had binned off those leading on the Rwanda idea long ago, he can't back out now, maybe just stall it until the election. The plan looks more implausible every day, then there's the cost!
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