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Jeez, what farce, Labour really now aping the Tories. With an ethnic minority Home Secretary saying things and pushing a half arsed policy that if delivered by a white male politician would be considered offensive.
My greatest disappointment with Starmer is the continuation of this same old game. Half-arsed policy with focus on electoral dynamics over effectiveness. Underlying situation gets worse. Then you complain the border is out of control, when in fact it is your policymaking which has failed.
How did we get here? Where Farage, a utterly repulsive, wind bag whose only agenda is enriching himself and his billionaire backers sets the agenda. I mean despite false claims the majority of people in this country are not concerned about Asylum seekers and small boats, they are a small percentage of immigrants and again despite media and right wing social media coverage, are not responsible for the majority of crimes in the UK.
But irrespective of the misinformation pandering to those voters who are dumb enough to swallow the Reform BS, Labour are not going to attract those voters by aping Reform.
So disappointed at Labours lack of conviction. Yvette C and Starmer in opposition called out the rank ideology and opportunism behind the stop-the-boats fiasco, a narrative then, surely, for any future immigration policy to be about safe routes, fast processing of claims, deportation of those failed claims, a return to an agreement with the EU about returns that existed pre Brexit, processing claims in France (as offered by the French during Brexit talks) and tumbling net migration.
Its not rocket science: quick processing is key to everything.
Then have a returns policy with France and let people apply from France (this should reduce the boats considerably)
If granted asylum, let them work.
If denied, send them back,
if they cant go back, grant temporary refuge.
The Proposals outlined this week simply won't work, and Labour must know this, as the Tories did on the Rwanda idea, impractical, costly and ineffective.
We are back to performative politics, rather than ignoring the noise generated by Reform and getting on with government and introducing actual solutions, the SPADS are pushing performative events that make headlines, in the vain hope this will have an effect.
**** me, its ludicrous!
My greatest disappointment with Starmer is the continuation of this same old game. Half-arsed policy with focus on electoral dynamics over effectiveness. Underlying situation gets worse. Then you complain the border is out of control, when in fact it is your policymaking which has failed.
How did we get here? Where Farage, a utterly repulsive, wind bag whose only agenda is enriching himself and his billionaire backers sets the agenda. I mean despite false claims the majority of people in this country are not concerned about Asylum seekers and small boats, they are a small percentage of immigrants and again despite media and right wing social media coverage, are not responsible for the majority of crimes in the UK.
But irrespective of the misinformation pandering to those voters who are dumb enough to swallow the Reform BS, Labour are not going to attract those voters by aping Reform.
So disappointed at Labours lack of conviction. Yvette C and Starmer in opposition called out the rank ideology and opportunism behind the stop-the-boats fiasco, a narrative then, surely, for any future immigration policy to be about safe routes, fast processing of claims, deportation of those failed claims, a return to an agreement with the EU about returns that existed pre Brexit, processing claims in France (as offered by the French during Brexit talks) and tumbling net migration.
Its not rocket science: quick processing is key to everything.
Then have a returns policy with France and let people apply from France (this should reduce the boats considerably)
If granted asylum, let them work.
If denied, send them back,
if they cant go back, grant temporary refuge.
The Proposals outlined this week simply won't work, and Labour must know this, as the Tories did on the Rwanda idea, impractical, costly and ineffective.
We are back to performative politics, rather than ignoring the noise generated by Reform and getting on with government and introducing actual solutions, the SPADS are pushing performative events that make headlines, in the vain hope this will have an effect.
**** me, its ludicrous!
Oh dear. 
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