[Tubby Isaacs]

Nothing says "I'm definitely right about this" like an off the record briefing to Guido Fawkes,

[Youngian]

I thought it was normal for posted workers to pay NI on their earnings abroad in their home country? When I worked in France in 2016 one of the very few forms I had to fill in then was a statement to the French government declaring that I would do this.

It is although there was a lot of griping about posted workers in France. EU foreign workers in France have won a series of court cases against sectors putting some seriously feeble contrived barriers to keep them out of the labour market.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I recall some Lexit stuff about the "posted workers directive" back in the day.

[Tubby Isaacs]

In fairness to the Lexiters, there does seem to have been a rather bad ECJ decision that rightly provoked a lot of concern.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Ha ha. Simon Hart, the Chief Whip, could testify to where Kemi's attention was.

[Crabcakes]

The problem Badenoch has now is that she’s been caught out so many times that this could be true, but no one would believe her.

For the record, I don’t believe her either. But being in that scenario so soon into your leadership is absolutely disastrous. And for the rest of us, hilarious.

[Tubby Isaacs]

You can understand why Kemi went with the WFA at PMQs instead of this rubbish.

Except that when she ran for leadership in 2022 she supported the same policy.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/20 ... ents-2022/

[Tubby Isaacs]

Kemi, seemingly just on the basis of Donald Trump posting some figures, says the UK has been "shafted" by the deal.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Not just Trump who's been taken in by some tariff cuts, by the look of it.

I really can't believe Badenoch steamed in without seeing the deal properly. She was the Trade Secretary. I think she's going to be pushed out soon.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Good stuff by Sunder Katwala on how mad Kemi is. And a politically awkward story from 2018, where she praised Theresa May for liberalizing visas. 2018 Kemi was right. 2025 Kemi is supporting an absolute nonsense of a policy on capping visas. If people think Labour are like the Tories (or Reform) on immigration, they aren't paying attention.