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Those Uplands - Again
The Daily Telegraph says, "Few would have imagined when Boris Johnson pledged to take back control of the UK’s borders that two years later Britain would be allowing in record numbers of foreign workers, students and families."
Perhaps Boris just got his electioneering slogan slightly wrong, it should have been "Get Britain Done"
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Perhaps Boris just got his electioneering slogan slightly wrong, it should have been "Get Britain Done"
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But but but those soundbite 'slogans' were ignored by the intelligent voters, who were actually only voting for "sovereignty" and anyone stupid enough to believe such slogans and vote expecting them to be implemented were stupid. Stupid, but at least they voted the right way which was the main thing.
Few would have imagined it because few would have imagined the ECHR would be able to keep overruling perfectly reasonable policy from a nation that was supposed to have regained sovereignty. Clearly more sovereignty had foolishly been gven away than was realised. Still, no panic, just means that there's more exiting to be done first, starting with the court that interprets law that is either flawed, or badly interpreted. We need our own, sensible definition of a human right and how it is to be protected.
Old Geezer
//Still, no panic, just means that there's more exiting to be done first//
So you’re telling me the oven-ready Brexit deal is in fact a luke-warm ding-ding lasagna, cooked on the edges but still freezing in the middle?
The Chef lied to us!
So what now? Brexit 2.0?
I’m already reading elsewhere that Teuss is already mooting Article 16 in order to stave off the N. Ireland issue, but this is Mrs Flip-Flop so we probably need to get out the crystal ball and Tarot cards.
//Still, no panic, just means that there's more exiting to be done first//
So you’re telling me the oven-ready Brexit deal is in fact a luke-warm ding-ding lasagna, cooked on the edges but still freezing in the middle?
The Chef lied to us!
So what now? Brexit 2.0?
I’m already reading elsewhere that Teuss is already mooting Article 16 in order to stave off the N. Ireland issue, but this is Mrs Flip-Flop so we probably need to get out the crystal ball and Tarot cards.
// the latest Home Office figures, is that the number of work, study and other visas issued to foreign nationals has increased by 83 per cent to 1,115,099 in the 12 months to June and is up 70 per cent on 2019 pre-pandemic, pre-Brexit levels. //
And that is the legal migrants. 50,000 have crossed the channel illegally in small boats, while the Home Secretary watches helplessly.
The Tories’ record on immigration is appalling. But you will all for them again in 2024.
And that is the legal migrants. 50,000 have crossed the channel illegally in small boats, while the Home Secretary watches helplessly.
The Tories’ record on immigration is appalling. But you will all for them again in 2024.
It looks like it’s actually been implemented, Gromit:
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Fatticusinch, //Look out Gromit, Naomi is off on a whataboutery spree instead of asking why the present government aren’t doing their job! //
You never take a breath and take the time to try to understand what other people say before prattling on, so I'll explain. Because Gromit is disappointed with the current government's record on immigration, he is advocating voting for another party. I'm asking him what the other parties are going to do about it.
You never take a breath and take the time to try to understand what other people say before prattling on, so I'll explain. Because Gromit is disappointed with the current government's record on immigration, he is advocating voting for another party. I'm asking him what the other parties are going to do about it.
In 2010 the Conservatives lambasted Labour’s immigration record. Labour had let in 229,000 the previous year. In their manifesto (and subsequent ones) they pledged to bring immigration down to the tens of thousands, instead of hundreds of thousands.
And for a decade they have miserably failed. The figures are much worse now than when Labour was in charge.
And for a decade they have miserably failed. The figures are much worse now than when Labour was in charge.
Migration Watch UK
// … a large increase in immigration since before the pandemic, with an astonishing 1.1 million visas granted for people to come and live in the UK (a rise of more than half a million when compared with the year to June 2019 – before the pandemic.
It is the highest number of visas for people to come and live here ever issued in one year, suggesting that, despite repeated promises to control and reduce immigration, the government are delivering the opposite. //
Migration Watch UK used to be widely quoted in the Mail, Express and Telegraph (and AB), but they hardly get a mention these days. Perhaps Conservatives don’t like what they are saying about them.
// … a large increase in immigration since before the pandemic, with an astonishing 1.1 million visas granted for people to come and live in the UK (a rise of more than half a million when compared with the year to June 2019 – before the pandemic.
It is the highest number of visas for people to come and live here ever issued in one year, suggesting that, despite repeated promises to control and reduce immigration, the government are delivering the opposite. //
Migration Watch UK used to be widely quoted in the Mail, Express and Telegraph (and AB), but they hardly get a mention these days. Perhaps Conservatives don’t like what they are saying about them.
Of course you need to bear in mind that prior to Brexit, 450m people had the unfettered right to work and settle here without visas. Nobody knew how many of that 450m actually did so (only that about 6m EU citizens took the opportunity to register to remain here). So whatever figures are being quoted now, there is nothing reliable to compare them to.
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