They also conflate immigration in total, which has been historically high in recent years, with asylum and irregular arrivals which have also been historically high but are a fraction of the total. N… (View Post)

“Far right is the left’s fault”. Pretty much the entire moral argument of liberal US MAGA apologists, and finding its way across the Atlantic it seems. (View Post)

My expectation is that if the budget is a disaster, the winners will be the Tories not Reform. And possibly the Greens. It will mean weeks when the main political story is the economy not immigration. (View Post)

The good thing about moving rates as proposed in the IT/NI swap is that it’s the sort of tax reform that can be done with the stroke of a pen. It doesn’t require consultation. And it’s easy to implem… (View Post)

It costs very little, it’s a nice thing that transforms lives, and adds to the happiness of the nation. A lot of the cuts being proposed on here today are a. unlikely to save much, b. generally targe… (View Post)