The timeline goes something like this 2004 Blair allows A8 Accession, saying there will only be about 12-13,000 immigrants coming from Eastern Europe Hundreds of thousands arrive 2010 Cameron says he… (View Post)

Tony Blair was warned of Eastern European immigration surge following EU expansion Tony Blair's Labour government pressed ahead with plans to grant unrestricted access to the UK to migrants from… (View Post)

It's not as if the public have demanded "far right" immigration policies; all previous governments, from1997 onward, had to do was to make good on their promises on the future level of… (View Post)

The problem is that every winning party for the last 25 years has made the same promise on immigration, which is quite a big issue, and all of them have done the reverse of what they said they would.… (View Post)

Charisma plays a big part. Starmer was lucky that the Tories imploded so spectacularly he didn't need to do anything other than not lose too many votes to become PM. But now his stiff, awkward p… (View Post)