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It looked real to me. 😮
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An image supposedly showing Sir Keir Starmer in a pink hijab and dress is fake, and may have been generated using AI.
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@typeclonghouse Incredibly rude.
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Sunak on This Morning today looking on at ‘Britain’s most tattooed mum’
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Just an astonishing 19.8% of Muslims aged 16-to-74 in the UK are in full-time employment according to a study carried out by the Social Mobility Commission. The Guardian has attributed this to 'widespread Islamophobia, racism and discrimination' in British workplaces.
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Tony Blair vs a 36-year old Richard Tice on the Euro, during a 2001 election Question Time
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At no point in their life-cycle is a MENA (Middle Eastern, North African, Pakistani or Turkish) immigrant a net contributor to the public finances of Denmark. Such interdepartmental fiscal studies have not been carried out in the UK.
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Just an astonishing 19.8% of Muslims aged 16-to-74 in the UK are in full-time employment according to a study carried out by the Social Mobility Commission. The Guardian has attributed this to 'widespread Islamophobia, racism and discrimination' in British workplaces.
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Average @Conservatives voter
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🚨 Nigel Farage says he will do nothing for the black community “I couldn’t give a damn”
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More British Muslims joined ISIS than the British Army.
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"We have a growing number of young people in this country who do not subscribe to British values... We see them on the streets of London every Saturday" - @Nigel_Farage "Are we talking about Muslims here?" - @TrevorPTweets "We are" - @Nigel_Farage
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‘How many more children, Prime Minister?’ ‘Time for change Starmer!’
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Colin, who fits CCTV cameras and burglar alarms, is thriving in Tory Britain.
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'I will be voting Conservative because I've never had so much money in my life.' Caller Colin, who fits CCTV and alarms, has firmly made up his mind for this election.
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The ONS lost 90% of its top talent when it was moved to Newport. Moving people where they don’t want to go rarely works.
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"A million Indians died fighting for the European Project" Britain's Foreign Secretary.
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Margaret Thatcher offers her sympathies to the 178 Tory MPs who lost their seats in 1997.
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Aurelius to Yes Minister. Not a bad range from the Polish Foreign Minister.
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The NHS used to recruit “blonde, blue-eyed” white nurses from Finland. This practice was strongly condemned by Diane Abbott. Under the last 14 years of Tory government this issue has been rectified with now over 60,000 nurses of African or Caribbean nationality in the NHS and an
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The UK asylum acceptance rate is 76% (2022). It was 12% under Blair in 2004. The Tories have liberalised the system at every turn.
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Also important to note the markedly slanted demographic profile of these asylum applicants in question. Take Afghanistan, for example, below. These are not vulnerable women and children.
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Every time that people force their way into this country illegally and are then allowed to stay, many more people are encouraged to come
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All the Tories had to do to contain Nigel Farage and avoid destruction was to not quadruple migration. He was literally begging them.
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Farage to the Spectator, 22 Jan 2020: "We've won ... we've got a great bright future ahead of us." "Unless this government drops the ball ... and I don't think they're going to ... you'll never ever see from me again."
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Single mum-bashing, benefits-bashing, ASBO and gay jokes. This was prime time TV during the Blair era. We have not had it like that before or since.
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UK Salary Guide Anything less than 30k is rubbish. Your bimonthly luxury will consist of having small fries rather than medium at McDonald's to save 6 pence. Your parents will constantly bail you out. Your teenage brother still in school with a summer job will laugh at your
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MPs shouldn’t be glorified social workers. This is a very new phenomenon.
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Never forget Britain in 2020.
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New Labour bruiser Alastair Campbell ( @campbellclaret ) tells the Downing Street press lobby that 'a large proportion' of asylum seekers are 'bogus' and recognises that '70 to 80 percent' of claims are 'unfounded'.
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The changing attitudes towards consanguinity in modern Britain
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Needed confirmation from the big man first.
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🔴 Labour leader strengthens position on biological sex after previously struggling to define a woman Read more ⤵️
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Heartwarming scene as an American tourist with a tricolour bracelet bops to an Orange Order parade.
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Labour has history when it comes to immigration.
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Astonishingly poor showing. The public sector have nothing to show for themselves in the last 25 years and are being propped up off the largesse of the private sector. The taxpayer is paying more for less.
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Public service productivity in Quarter 4 2023 was 6.8% below its pre-pandemic peak in Quarter 4 2019. Following a large fall during the period affected by #COVID19 , it has remained relatively stable since Quarter 2 2021. Read more ➡️
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The Health and Care Worker visa has to be one of the most grossly irresponsible policies in the history of our country. There was no dependents cap, no age cap, no proper vetting on which employers could sponsor workers, and no lifetime fiscal costing. Just astonishingly enacted
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It will cost the taxpayer over £20k EVERY YEAR just to educate these four children. Given how low the wages in the care sector are, Muhammad will pay next to nothing in taxes. The net lifetime fiscal cost of giving out this ONE social care visa may well touch £1million.
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Mr Farage takes the entirely reasonable position held by the former Labour Prime Minister.
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🚨 NEW: Leader of Reform Nigel Farage says "stop and search" is needed to stop knife crime "in a tough way" and says "we have to forget the colour of people's skins" #BBCDebate
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Starmer jailed and deported a 22-year old man for stealing a scoop of ice cream
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Home Secretary faces forensic scrutiny from her husband on flagship morning show. This is just normal in our media ecosystem.
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How is our high-skilled points-based immigration system procuring Brazilian delivery riders?
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‘I wouldn’t wish this on anyone’: the food delivery riders living in ‘caravan shantytowns’ in Bristol
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In the mid 1990s only 4% of asylum seekers were recognised as refugees and, of those who appealed, only a further 4% went on to win their appeals. Now, 76% of asylum seekers are recognised as refugees and a further 50% go on to win their appeals.
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Indian CEOs are lobbying the UK to be tougher on crime in London. "[We all] have had an experience of physical mugging and the police not responding" "You don't want to look over your shoulder all the time. You don't want to go to a city where you're likely to be mugged"
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“No one should get away with such mismanagement”
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Starmer offered another off-ramp by Sky—refuses to recognise anxieties over immigration.
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This is disastrous.
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Supreme Court rules Surrey council should have considered climate impact of burning oil drilled from new wells in Horley, in landmark ruling which could end all future UK oil drilling
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In 2005, Labour deported nearly 21,000 people. Between 2019-2020, right-wing Tory firebrand and Farage-ally Priti Patel deported 13,000.
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This handy Novara graphic (credit: @AaronBastani ) shows how despite facing record illegal migration, deportations have cratered under the last decade of the Tories. Tony Blair, deporter-in-chief, presided over annual deportations 7x higher while illegal migration was much lower!
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@BernoulliDefect Rory isn't even talking about immigrants, but just refugees, which have an even worse net fiscal position.
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The Blair government cut sodium levels by 30% in processed foods without telling anyone. "Should've told the public" "No!"
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The UK are world leaders in Diversity & Inclusivity and employ 'twice as many D&I workers (per 10,000 employees) as any other country'. Of these, there exist 10,000 public sectors D&I jobs, at a cost of £557 million a year to the UK taxpayer.
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In 2016, the former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair said that millions of Muslims were 'fundamentally incompatible with the modern world' .
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Is Tony Blair right to say "many millions" of Muslims are "fundamentally incompatible with the modern world?"
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John Reith, the first Director General of the BBC, defends the 'BBC English' accent. He believed it was the only accent that "didn't particularly irritate one part of the country" and would be widely understood.
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🚨 Rory Stewart calls for a 'sensible' asylum quota of 350,000 per year (0.5% of population) to contend with the rise of populism.
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Tony Blair bashed the 'abuse' of the asylum system by 'economic migrants destroying their documentation' and 'inventing stories of persecution'. Blair also attacked fraudulent 'students' coming to this country illegally under the guise of further education. In 2003, the grant
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Prime Minister Tony Blair espouses the fringe, and far right position, that perhaps it would be reasonable to reassess commitments to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention given the nature of the modern illegal immigration problem.
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@annaturley @Olympics This is fairly transphobic, Ms Turley. I would delete this tweet.
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No other country does this. Almost entirely unreciprocated. We are being taken for fools.
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UK election gives hope to first time immigrant voters
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The Conservative Party are receiving no appreciation from the millions they have opened the doors to during the eponymous Boris Wave.
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No other country does this. Almost entirely unreciprocated. We are being taken for fools.
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This is a product of the latest diversity drive in the NHS. Removing any meritocracy and punishing the unfortunate fools that have actually worked quite hard by funnelling them through a lottery system where they end up dropped in some grim outpost.
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Consistently top 10-20% of my year and won two prizes in 4th year, to be randomly allocated to the bottom of the entire UK. Fantastic new system @UKFPO , thank you for your well wishes for my future career
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The @Conservatives in 2014 changed the law to make shoplifting of goods worth £200 or less a summary offence (not tried in a crown court). This discouraged the police from investigating such crimes and directly led to increased shoplifting. It also incentivised gangs to recruit
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Prime Minister Tony Blair espouses the fringe, and far right position, that perhaps it would be reasonable to reassess commitments to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention given the nature of the modern illegal immigration problem.
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A heartwarming tale of an enterprising new addition to Britain in just the last couple years.
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The UK taxi driver still being paid as a Nigerian civil servant
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@echetus @RyuuguuRena @RexBelisarius It was ever thus. Same with the Dickensian writings over Victorian poverty coinciding with the greatest alleviation in material living standards of the English peoples—it’s just that the poors became suddenly more visible in industrial Britain.
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Just one in ten Somalis in the UK are in full-time employment. Astonishing.
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@JNRaeside Don’t take pictures of strangers you weirdo.
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@RobDotHutton Modern migration levels from Asia and Africa have nothing to do with the iron curtain.
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Rachel Reeves warns in 2016 that riots could sweep the streets of Britain if immigration is not controlled. She compares her constituency in Leeds to a “tinder box” and fears that voters’ concerns over immigration could “explode” on to the streets if unaddressed.
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This man should NOT be in this country.
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Asylum seeker jailed for attempted murder after stabbing his own solicitor, 71, in the chest
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Even a nominal charge of £5 for something like seeing a GP would have a discernible impact on demand. People struggle to think at the margin.
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Why nominal charging, even if not for the full value of the service or product, works. See fare evasion in public transport, road tolls, free at the point of use healthcare systems etc
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The UK suffers from massive wage compression. Your average professional graduate has the same amount of disposable income as someone on benefits working cash in hand. The gap between those in the middle and the poorest has continued to shrink in the last decade.
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Are any of our heady media men willing to do a deep-dive undercover investigation into the goings on in one of these numerous Deliveroo / Uber Eats driver substitution groups with tens of thousands of members?
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@RichardEmmins False - this is full time employment which is different to unemployment (not in employment, has actively sought work in the last 4 weeks, and is available to start work in the next 2 weeks) statistics.
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British Muslims across every age band consistently have lower percentages in employment when compared to the general population, according to the most recent UK census.
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At no point in their life-cycle is a MENA (Middle Eastern, North African, Pakistani or Turkish) immigrant a net contributor to the public finances of Denmark. Such interdepartmental fiscal studies have not been carried out in the UK.
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The handmaidens of mass migration.
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I frequently Deliveroo diet cokes and mini magnums to my home when the Tesco is a 30 second walk away
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Labour achieve the largest single deportation in history. @YvetteCooperMP 👏
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Still thinking of this astonishing Select Committee appearance where a Conservative MP doesn’t realise that the care worker visa is not actually some eternal cornerstone of Britain and only came to be very recently because of the actions of his party.
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@olivertimprice Cracking stuff Oliver, can you roll this feature out for other groups of criminals as well?
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Jess Phillips has to go. Everyone needs to lock in on her. From every media institution to the smallest Twitter account. She has behaved incredibly irresponsibly as a Home Office minister. Vile.
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Mr Tice is merely asserting the sensible, Blairite position on stop & search.
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Matthew in 2022 Shaun Bailey stated depsite black Londoners being 13% of population, they account for 45% knife murder victims. Often is mothers of black children who want more stop and search to help get knives off streets to protect their children But that does not suit
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@Hedd_Wyn_John @FUDdaily One has to assume he’s not v good at maths.
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Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's chief of staff, went further in a memo to Blair titled: “Asylum: the nuclear option”. He questioned the need for Britain having an asylum system at all in the first place and suggested measures including ignoring the ECHR as a 'Big Bang' solution.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair espouses the fringe, and far right position, that perhaps it would be reasonable to reassess commitments to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention given the nature of the modern illegal immigration problem.
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Jonathan Portes has also recently asserted, quite hazily, that the latest wave of migration—unprecedented in scale and nature in our history—is going to deliver us a net fiscal boost of £5bn per year. He has now been appointed to chair a panel offering impartial advise to the
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Jonathan Portes is on the BBC claiming the British public support migration because Labour won the election. The Tories lost nearly half their votes to Reform because they flooded the country with millions of non-EU migrants. Labour got 34% and barely increased their support.
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Ms Abbott later clarified that this was actually part of a more broader message in opposition to immigration.
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At no point in their life-cycle is a MENA (Middle Eastern, North African, Pakistani or Turkish) immigrant a net contributor to the public finances of Denmark. Such interdepartmental fiscal studies have not been carried out in the UK.
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@LessCrime This is full time employment. You’re not looking at the same statistic.
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James Forsyth, former political editor of The Spectator and Rishi Sunak's right-hand man, observing the show of goodwill from the electorate and taking it as a mandate to set Britain on pace for its largest demographic transition in history.
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"To date, Johnson’s contention that the political importance of immigration would fall once free movement was over has been borne out by events" ✒️ @JGForsyth
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Reminder that Boris Johnson’s Tory Party was singularly responsible for this and they still don’t understand how.
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Conservative member of the Home Affairs Select Committee doesn't realise that care workers couldn't immigrate here before 2021🤦‍♂️
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There are Facebook groups with tens of thousands of members coaching each other on what to say to maximise their benefits. It’s a joke, especially with many claims such as mental health being essentially unfalsifiable. Your middle class Guardian reader has no theory of the mind
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Theresa May’s Prisons Minister to Labour Home Secretary: ‘You (Blunkett) were too right wing for me.’
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🗣️ "They wanted me to put right what was happening in their lives, not mine" David Blunkett full video interview drops today at 18:00 BST on our Leading YouTube channel. Hit notify so you don't miss it 🔔
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@afneil Mr Neil, perhaps October 6th has eluded YOU.
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One year on from Gary Lineker comparing the government's immigration policy to that of Nazi Germany, the leader of the Labour Party has declared that 'this is the most liberal Prime Minister we have ever had on immigration'.
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Starmer: "[Rishi Sunak] is the most liberal prime minister we’ve ever had on immigration. We've never had numbers like this before"
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🚨 Priti Patel REFUSES to apologise for record migration as Home Secretary and defends the Health and Care Worker visa and Student visa that led to the largest influx of low-skilled migrants and dependents in British history
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Additionally, there were no discernible positive spillover effects on the local economy from the move. People obsessed with moving everything out of London as a wonderful solution to the nation’s ills have yet to reconsider their priors though.
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MENA-born men have lower rates of employment than all other women in the UK.
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British Muslims across every age band consistently have lower percentages in employment when compared to the general population, according to the most recent UK census.
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NEW 🧵: how Britain became the most generous country in the world
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NEW 🧵: how Britain became gripped by the worst homelessness crisis in the developed world
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@RuthfulThe Wonderful juxtaposition of powerful liberal denunciations of nationalism along with every BAME speaker unabashedly championing an ethnic cause.
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Clown country. PM completely drowned out by music. Soaking wet. Weak. Pathetic images. What a joke.
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@pollymackenzie You are utterly insane, Polly.
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@MesutFarkeson Most normal countries do not give unrestricted voting rights and the right to stand as a candidate to foreigners. The UK is unique in this regard, and it is only applied, in an unreciprocated manner, to citizens from the Commonwealth.
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This amounts to an implied annual subsidy of over £20,000 to a single man with an income of £35,000. What is the moral or economic justification for such an allocation?
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Section 106 must be destroyed.
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"I think the threshold for prosecution has to be high ... people have the right to be offensive and to be insulting" Keir Starmer in 2012 warns about the "chilling effect on free speech", should there be a lot of prosecutions on social media.
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@inglesongrey That's still (unfortunately) a top 15% salary in this country.
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@stellacreasy You are phenomenally stupid.
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@elonmusk Mr Musk, did you know that Mr Starmer clocks out at 6pm every evening? #PartTimeKeir
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@JonAshworth You can’t even win a safe seat. 🤣
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