Jesus lads, 'tis looking like BREXIT!

[Meridian]

I wonder what caused this ?

Absolute poverty: UK sees biggest rise for 30 years

The energy price crisis caused the sharpest increase in absolute poverty in 30 years, official figures show.

www.bbc.com

 

[Stacky]

 

[jams]

3 people in every 20 think Reform is the answer to their problems.

The laugh is some Torys will think they need to be more racist to get that 15% back.

 

[Stacky]

3 people in every 20 think Reform is the answer to their problems.

The laugh is some Torys will think they need to be more racist to get that 15% back.

They are both trying to out flank each other by going even more right-wing and chasing the same 15% of headbangers.

The Rwanda thing is hilarious, spending millions to fly a few hundred asylum seekers while more than afew hundred arrive every single day and there is fock all that they can do about is as they left the E.U.

 

[How bad boy]

3 people in every 20 think Reform is the answer to their problems.

The laugh is some Torys will think they need to be more racist to get that 15% back.

Exactly.

Meanwhile, Labour are moving to the right, which is pissing off the likes of Owen Jones on the far left of the Labour party. He represents a tiny fraction of the UK population, most of which, in crucial swing seats will hold their nose and vote Labour. Even Jones' diatribes against Labour builds confidence for those in the centre right that a Labour government is not something to be feared, while the Tories move away from them. As a very large section of the population are centre right, that's pretty important.


Additionally, there's a growing movement for tactical voting:

There are loads of constituencies where the leading candidate against the Tories isn't fully clear. In South Devon last time, Labour got 22%, Lib Dems 11% and Greens 3.8%. Tories absolutely romped home with 33% of the vote.

In that area, Lib Dems tend to do pretty well, and while it appears there's decent support for Labour, it might not be enough to unify behind and unseat the Tories.

So a movement has been set up for a "Primary" to nominate the "anyone but the tories" candidate of choice:

South Devon Primary

A fair & transparent way to choose one progressive candidate to unite behind at the next general election, and stop the Conservatives winning on a minority vote.

www.southdevonprimary.org

The Lib Dem candidate won it easily:

You could dismiss it, but 1,072 votes cast is quite a lot out of 72,535 votes cast in the 2019 election.

The longer the Tories leave the election, the longer movements like this have to organise tactical voting against them.

 

[How bad boy]

They are both trying to out flank each other by going even more right-wing and chasing the same 15% of headbangers.

The Rwanda thing is hilarious, spending millions to fly a few hundred asylum seekers while more than afew hundred arrive every single day and there is fock all that they can do about is as they left the E.U.

And of course, cutting the staff processing the claims to the bone, resulting in an enormous backlog of claims and massive accommodation bills:





Note the right hand scale of the first graph is 2x the second graph. 140k awaiting an initial decision, 70k coming in last year. Outstanding cases were rising rapidly in 2018 when incoming applications were 30k a year, the system is utterly fucked now.

Half a billion could have paid for thousands of more staff and repatriation efforts.

Of course, the latter is much harder too because of Brexit as the UK left the Dublin Agreement.

Not that Britain even comes vaguely close to pulling its weight on the international stage when it comes to hosting refugees.

 

[Stacky]

And of course, cutting the staff processing the claims to the bone, resulting in an enormous backlog of claims and massive accommodation bills:
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Note the right hand scale of the first graph is 2x the second graph. 140k awaiting an initial decision, 70k coming in last year. Outstanding cases were rising rapidly in 2018 when incoming applications were 30k a year, the system is utterly fucked now.

Half a billion could have paid for thousands of more staff and repatriation efforts.

Of course, the latter is much harder too because of Brexit as the UK left the Dublin Agreement.

Not that Britain even comes vaguely close to pulling its weight on the international stage when it comes to hosting refugees.

Why Sunak is choosing to die on the hill of the daft and failing "Stop the Boats" policy to appease the Tory nutcases and annoy everyone else is just hilarious.

It has failed and as your stats prove it will never work and it is a waste of resources.

 

[How bad boy]

Why Sunak is choosing to die on the hill of the daft and failing "Stop the Boats" policy to appease the Tory nutcases and annoy everyone else is just hilarious.

It has failed and as your stats prove it will never work and it is a waste of resources.

It's because he's fundamentally not very good at politics.


There's fuck all legislation going through parliament, there's the Rwanda bill and that's about it. MPs are reporting that they've nothing to do when parliament is in session:

MPs clock off early as length of Commons work day hits record low

Rishi Sunak accused of presiding over a ‘zombie parliament’

www.ft.com

""There’s very little going on day to day,” conceded one Conservative minister. A Labour insider argued some prime debating slots in the chamber were being dedicated to “niche” issues to fill time.

On Tuesday last week the Commons adjourned at 3.53pm, while on one Monday earlier this month almost five hours were dedicated to an unfocused “general debate on farming”, critics pointed out.

The FT analysis used parliamentary data going back 27 years — the data is available online — as well as Commons Library research.

Between 1997 and 2023 the average was 7 hours and 58 minutes — or 49 minutes longer than in the current session, the analysis showed. The peak was 9 hours and 15 minutes in the 1998-99 session of Tony Blair’s first administration.
...
In the King’s speech last November, the government unveiled 21 bills it hoped to pass in this parliamentary session, which will end when Sunak calls a general election, which must happen by January 28, 2025.So far this session ministers have introduced 26 bills and passed four, while also supporting a raft of private members’ bills to make progress.

The tally of planned public bills in the latest King’s speech was lower than in Queen’s speeches at the beginning of other recent parliamentary sessions.In the previous three sessions, commencing in May 2022, May 2021 and December 2019, the number of new and carried over bills was 37, 29 and 29 respectively. The total number of bills that received Royal Assent by the end of those sessions was 67, 47 and 54."


Not only is he focused on a plan that will almost certainly fail miserably, they're doing fuck all else while crisis after crisis stacks up.

 

[Mike Strutter]

They are both trying to out flank each other by going even more right-wing and chasing the same 15% of headbangers.

The Rwanda thing is hilarious, spending millions to fly a few hundred asylum seekers while more than afew hundred arrive every single day and there is fock all that they can do about is as they left the E.U.

They have spent millions to Rwanda and not one immigrant gone there. They give foreign aid to Rwanda yet Randa sponsor the Arsenal Football Team. Leaving the EU was to 'take back control' but they haven't. The highest number of migrants came in on one day a couple of days ago, over 400. That's more than one plane load

 

[Mike Strutter]

And of course, cutting the staff processing the claims to the bone, resulting in an enormous backlog of claims and massive accommodation bills:
View attachment 31100
View attachment 31101



Note the right hand scale of the first graph is 2x the second graph. 140k awaiting an initial decision, 70k coming in last year. Outstanding cases were rising rapidly in 2018 when incoming applications were 30k a year, the system is utterly fucked now.

Half a billion could have paid for thousands of more staff and repatriation efforts.

Of course, the latter is much harder too because of Brexit as the UK left the Dublin Agreement.

Not that Britain even comes vaguely close to pulling its weight on the international stage when it comes to hosting refugees.

17,000 of them have gone 'missing' whilst waiting for processing.