There was a mini news cycle in 2019 when the Tories came up with an unthinkably high net migration estimate of 840,000 under a future Labour government, to impugn Corbyn — they ended up beating it.
Labour is inexplicably and voluntarily gifting £34.7 billion to the state of Mauritius – not just now, but for decades to come. This deal is simply an enormous appropriation of British taxpayer’s money into the exchequer of a third country. It represents a tax cut for ordinary
The 'contributory principle' is dead.
This is what you're 'entitled' to if you didn't contribute enough years of NI for a full state pension:
- Income top up (Up to ÂŁ11,000 a year)
- Housing benefit (Up to ÂŁ12,000 a year)
- Full Council Tax reduction
- Free TV licence
- Free
214k foreign nationals with ILR get universal credit. ILR takes at least 5 years, so they came here pre-2021.
Since then net UK immigration has been 3.4m people. Many will soon be eligible for ILR, meaning access to benefits whether they've paid tax or not.
It must not happen.
“If you want to actually do something... leave the Refugee Convention… leave the ECHR… abolish the Human Rights Act”
"That's not a country that I'd feel very comfortable about"
Poppy Coburn and Shami Chakrabarti clash over human rights and the UK asylum system.
#Newsnight
What do you think the GDPR fine would be for a private sector company that screwed up like this?
What do you think the consequences will be for the government employees involved?
Britain needs to re-establish Citizenship as a covenant, with obligations (like jury duty, military service in a crisis) and rights (voting, welfare, social housing) strictly bound together.
Admission only on an oath, full language fluency, and ~10 years of meaningful tax paid.
Of all the things the state has done this might be the most alarming and symbolic of the UK’s decline.
UK was the only country to independently develop a space launch capability and has now abandoned it.
We have money for “asylum seekers”, NHS translators and people with
Britain was the third country in the world to launch its own satellite into orbit on its own rocket, after the Soviets and the Americans.
Britain remains the only nation on earth to have developed orbital launch capability and then abandoned it.