[Tubby Isaacs]

He got very little thanks for it. It's asserted that Labour was some sort of privatization mad government, when its main legacy was much greater public services provided publicly. If you expand the NHS massively and add some private provision to that, it doesn't make you "neoliberal" in my book, but nobody on social media seems to think that.

[The Weeping Angel]

This is not filling me with confidence. How on earth is a Blue Labour strategy going to help?

[Tubby Isaacs]

“Is likely to conclude?”

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Jaynetti is a 'freelance journalist' - so as I've never heard of him I don't understand why we are being told to take his opinions and speculations seriously.

[Tubby Isaacs]

He’s actually excellent on policy. This is just him observing off the cuff, presumably from an article in the FT.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Maybe so, but that doesn't make him a guru. 'As far as I can spit' is operative.

[Abernathy]

Well, yes. Off the cuff. He has no idea what Morgan McSweeney is or is not "likely to conclude". Which is Malcolm's point.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Maybe so, but that doesn't make him a guru. 'As far as I can spit' is operative.

He’s not making the observation in the link, presume it’s from the FT.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Well, yes. Off the cuff. He has no idea what Morgan McSweeney is or is not "likely to conclude". Which is Malcolm's point.

That was my point too. Just saying he’s an excellent policy journalist.

[Youngian]

This is not filling me with confidence. How on earth is a Blue Labour strategy going to help?

Don't know what that means in practice either but I doubt even a single Reform voter this week can tell me how many illegal immigrants have been deported in the past 10 months. It's over 20,000.
I suggest Keir if available and McSweeney if not, reads out the foreign sounding names of deportees from a lectern outside No 10 every day. Until everyone is as fucking sick of hearing about bloody illegal immigrants as I am.

[Tubby Isaacs]

The Guardian helpful as ever.

Labour targets international students claiming asylum after losses to Reform in local elections

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... -elections

The story makes clear this is something they've been working on for a while, despite the artful "after" in the title. On the face of it, you'd think international students were the sort of people you'd quite like claiming asylum, and who could be usefully put to work while the claim was being assessed. But it's such a numbers game now, I can see why they're just trying to get refugee numbers down, like Blair did in about 2003, which almost certainly helped in the 2005 election (they even did well in Kent).

I hope they do at least allow for a sensible number of overseas students overall.

[Youngian]

A Belarus student on my MA course was genuinely worried the KGB would read her dissertation. Its very unlikely she or any other students are on the radar of Reform voters in Kent as she wasn't a black person who arrived in a dingy. They were likely to be shot for crossing the Libyan desert in 2005 thanks to Blair and other EU leaders granting Ghadaffi lots of cash and favours.

[RedSparrows]

This is not filling me with confidence. How on earth is a Blue Labour strategy going to help?

Don't know what that means in practice either but I doubt even a single Reform voter this week can tell me how many illegal immigrants have been deported in the past 10 months. It's over 20,000.
I suggest Keir if available and McSweeney if not, reads out the foreign sounding names of deportees from a lectern outside No 10 every day. Until everyone is as fucking sick of hearing about bloody illegal immigrants as I am.

As Zoe Gardner has pointed out/implied many times: when is enough, enough? What moment will it be when this appetite is satisfied?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Well, yes. Off the cuff. He has no idea what Morgan McSweeney is or is not "likely to conclude". Which is Malcolm's point.

That was my point too. Just saying he’s an excellent policy journalist.

Those views would seem to be mutually exclusive.

[Youngian]

Stopping channel crossings would definitely dial down the fury. Zoe's probably right to point out that a single non white person walking the high street is too many for some people.

[The Weeping Angel]

The Guardian helpful as ever.

Labour targets international students claiming asylum after losses to Reform in local elections

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... -elections

The story makes clear this is something they've been working on for a while, despite the artful "after" in the title. On the face of it, you'd think international students were the sort of people you'd quite like claiming asylum, and who could be usefully put to work while the claim was being assessed. But it's such a numbers game now, I can see why they're just trying to get refugee numbers down, like Blair did in about 2003, which almost certainly helped in the 2005 election (they even did well in Kent).

I hope they do at least allow for a sensible number of overseas students overall.

Bluesky will go ballistic at this.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I don't know if it will particularly. This barely raised a ripple.

Trinidad and Tobago calls new UK visa requirement ‘disproportionate move’

Travellers from country now need visas with decision reportedly made in response to rising asylum claims

Stuff that has got noticed (in a bad way) includes stopping asylum seekers claiming British citizenship, which doesn't as I understand it have anything to do with being accepted, just discourages integration. I hope that's squashed.

[Youngian]

Beginning to wonder if Maurice Glasman is a comedy character let loose like Jonathan Pie. An article in today’s Sun reads like he began it an hour before deadline and he just filled it up with oddball brain farts. Take it Lord Mo isn’t referring to the ruling class in the Marxist sense but clever people who go to work in ties and read books.
And has this Prince Metternich for our times run his balance of power theories passed Zelensky? Or anyone half sane.

I was invited to President Donald Trump’s inauguration and I witnessed first hand the energy of the MAGA rallies.
It was an act of defiance against the ruling classes.

I have been to Ukraine 12 times since the war, and I am convinced the partnership with Ukraine is a blessing for our country.

We must deepen and intensify our partnership with Ukraine.
London-Kiev must hold the balance of power in Europe against Paris-Berlin.
France and Germany are going down the drain.

The industrial renewal can only be pursued by abolishing the Treasury and wrapping it into No10.
No business is run from accounts, unless it is bankrupt.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/politics/ ... -election/