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Yeah, but you know what a sneaky bastard he is, if Putin can do it you can bet magic grandpa will find a way....

 

The social care system will collapse without 'unskilled' overseas workers on about half the proposed income threshold. Most people don't think about this. But how many British people want to earn £12 an hour to wipe the arses of old people with dementia in care homes, or shower them down when they've been sat at home in their own excrement for several hours between home care visits? Very few. Both my parents, my aunt and my mother in law were looked after in their last years by precisely the kind of people that this government wants to stop coming here. It's a massive disaster waiting to happen. And the people who voted for Brexit will be the first to complain when they can't get decent care for themselves or their loved ones in old age.
I simply don't understand this English obsession with immigrants. Brexit will limit the number of Poles and Bulgarians but is irrelevant for non-EU immigrants - we were always free to control the flow of those anyway, if we'd chosen to do so. We didn't do so because we need these people to do the jobs that we don't want to do - whether that's wiping bums or picking fruit and veg. We are going to condemn our economy to years of decline outside the EU to satisfy this irrational desire to keep the population of this country looking the same as us, at whatever cost.

 

Whilst entertaining I'll be glad when the coronation is over this weekend, did you see Corbyns smug face when everybody was wishing him well at last PM's question time ? it just screamed "I ain't going nowhere"
Covid-19 or Corbyn-20.....not sure which is worse....!!

 

The cupboards on both sides of the divide have been empty for some time, those barrels bottoms have been truly scraped.

 

Indeed.

If I was an MP I would be off twitter faster than @Fordy117 can wash my car.

 

I think his suspension is more to do with his denial of the problem in the Labour Party.
The investigation only looked at about 70 of the complaints logged and found interference with about a third of those. Then there was two cases of harassment with another 18 there or there about. Added on the lack of training given after all the leadership statements about it being a priority.
But Corbyn wasn’t suspended for leading any of that but his claims that the problem wasn’t that bad. If there was evidence of a third of all police investigations having been interfered with he would be rightly shouting about it and calling out anyone claiming it wasn’t a real problem

 

Thats a load of bollocks as usual

 

Corbyn is so pro Palestine that it blinds him to antisemitism in his own party, He purposely or otherwise blocked or ignored all complaints of antisemitism while he was leader leading to his right demise,
Corbyn has openly called Hamas his friends and applauded there work despite the stated aim of Hamas is the complete destruction of the state of Isreal and the extinction of the Jewish people, How can you support such a view and not be antisemitic, He is a very dangerous man,

 

That is the original party, Built from the working classes and trade unions, They built the NHS, the welfare state and good council housing, However they realised that as people got better off they changed to vote tory, Labour then kept the poor poorer by keeping benefits and pensions as low as possible while preaching their support for the poorer classes, ( Labours pension increase of 25p for an example) You say it is nonsence but I say you are as stupid as most of the working classes that support a party who has to keep its support by keeping them poor, Otherwise answer this, When in power why do not Labour make sure benefits and pensions are much higher to a living standard instead of been the lowest in the modern Europe, Why do they cut the NHS just like the Tories, You need to think deeper and get away from years of brainwashing and been gullible, How many Labour MPs have come from a working class background? Not many

 

Labour and the Unions did that without a pandemic but without the millions spent, bodies left unburied and bins not emptied with streets full of rubbish.

 

They will start to reclaim it back from the poor and working poor no matter who is in power, Having said that the poor and working poor have always been better off under the Tories, Labour make great speeches but do nothing for them in power, The best they did was the minimum wage but even then the Tories have increased it more than Labour would have I suspect, Labour look at policies as what will win votes rather than what is the right thing to do and the electorate see through this

 

What I don't understand is how his line of thought gets put to to one side so easily. It's not even a difficult question!

If Labour believe that the wage rise should be 4% or whatever then just say it......and then explain how it is possible to pay for it.

The issue as always in that the Unions are pushing for the ridiculous (12%!) which is impossible to justify or cost. It puts Starmer in a completely impossible position which is losing his already wafer thin credibility.

 

Nothing like Israel and Palestine conflict to drag out the far left of the Labour party.

Clearly this was the working mans greatest concern when they were knocking on doors in Hartlepool.

I have no doubt there are many there concerned with the situation, however it would be naive to ignore that some are simply there because they harbour anti semitic views and they can hide behind the conflict to express them. After all they never come out for others such as the Uyghurs on China, however if that was repeated in Isreal they no doubt would be out.

 

There must be a black/Asian gay female or trans that Labour could pick as next leader? Maybe someone from the BBC could do?

 

Bercow is all about getting back in to Parliament, He has no chance of a Tory seat so then tries Labour, an awful character

 

The state of the opposition. And we wonder why the Torys keep getting elected.

 

Could be any one of these........................