Here is the problem. In today's politics its quite easy to envisage people shifting allegiance. And not just for narrow opportunist reasons - because they can see opportunities to get things don… (View Post)

The key word there is *judiciously* - there are no simple, quick, easy solutions. I suspect that much of the proposal made earlier was aimed at the ill-informed to reassure them that "we will ac… (View Post)

It isn't fine too when you are trying to land RAF planes full of people into their sovereign territory. They are sovereign and absolutely can make their own rules... I have no doubt that deals w… (View Post)

I've stopped making the economic point because (a) nobody cares and (b) migrants haven't filled the hole anyway. We need to fundamentally remake the way our economy supports our society. Im… (View Post)

I advocate changing much of the status quo, so I don't care much for the "we can't do x" arguments. We can, the valid question is whether we should and if so, how? The simple trut… (View Post)