You're a betting man, we had a long sample of what FOM would bring in each year and trends we could extrapolate from. None of that pointed to the kind of migration we have seen post Brexit. (View Post)

What we say and what we do is different though. Very much so under the Tories. Logically looking at vacancy rates, demographics, clearly we need people to work in care. The rest we could probably fud… (View Post)

Starmer is probably for sensible migration. He wasn't bothered by the low hundreds of thousands but can see the problem with high hundreds of thousands. There is nothing hypocritical about that. (View Post)

I doubt it is phoney. I hold a similar view and it is genuine, the numbers are too high recently especially without house building. And the people who thought the low hundreds of thousands were a pro… (View Post)

Weirdly someone recommended it to me this week and seemed very excited by it. I have zero interest in birdsong so just nodded politely. (View Post)