[Andy McDandy]

Yes. See Littlejohn's column today where it becomes perfectly clear.

Additionally, Littlejohn has decided that after 7 years of insisting that Brexit wasn't driven by immigration paranoia, he's now happy to say that it was.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Actual numbers of arrivals in this article.

https://news.sky.com/story/more-than-10 ... n-12937722

It took 5 years for 100,000 to arrive (albeit with Covid included in there). I think a quota of 100,000 per year is pretty unlikely, and would be considered so by most people who looked at the figures. That's why they have to do this "Labour secret plot to change Britain" bollocks.

[Youngian]

Most illegals are overstayers who don’t arrive in boats so the subject doesn’t excite people. Looks like Stephen Kinnock was told to belt up when he touched on the subject
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... s2MU4i_E7I

[Tubby Isaacs]

Fair play, I expected Greg to keep away from Susan Hall for a while.

[Youngian]

Some of Susan’s best friends are black.

[Yug]

Some of Susan’s best friends are black.

Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman, Nadhim Zahawi, James Cleverly, Priti Patel...

[Tubby Isaacs]

Ha ha ha. Isn't Greg shit?

[The Weeping Angel]

[Bones McCoy]

A man who clearly cannot tell his left from right.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Here's Greg again. With a brilliant source- Jeremy Hunt.

It's not an accounting trick btw, It's doing net worth. Doesn't hide any debt. Anybody can see what the debt is. It's also easier to spot assets being diminished to fund tax cuts.

[Andy McDandy]

When I rule the world, "straight out of the [X] playbook" is getting banned, day one.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Some people do think it's a bad rule to targer net public sector worth with fiscal policy. Here's the IFS man, who was referred to in The Telegraph article. Funnily enough, I don't think he says "accounting trick worthy of Gordon Brown" though. And he thinks it's a useful measurement in itself.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Pitiful. How does he think "Rachel Reeves failed to mention inflation" is going to fly? Is Inflation something the Tories think they have a big lead on?

Starmer mentioned the boats plan (not illegal immigration anyway) before.

And again the bizarre line for a Tory that all their Prime Mininsters since Thatcher have been short termist failures.

Once again Sir Keir Starmer showed he would take the easy way out on Britain’s long-term challenges.

On two of the biggest issues facing our country, Labour has nothing to say. Just as Rachel Reeves failed to mention inflation once in her speech, Sir Keir failed to say anything about how he would tackle illegal immigration.

Instead, he committed Labour to more borrowing, which would increase inflation, and reversing Rishi Sunak’s more proportionate approach to net zero, forcing millions of families to pay up to £15,000 to upgrade their homes.

Sir Keir just offers more of the same short-term political decision-making of the last 30 years that has failed Britain – all glitter, no substance. Rishi Sunak and the Conservatives are working to halve inflation, grow the economy, reduce debt, cut waiting lists and stop the boats. And only Rishi Sunak will take the long-term decisions needed to build a brighter future.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Christ. Greg went with the same non-flying bollocks about inflation with Sir Keir's speech too.

[Crabcakes]

Greg’s current wheeze is trying to create panic about taxes…by amplifying a story about a blatantly rich family who may have to sell their home to keep their child in an eye-wateringly expensive private school.

Because that’ll absolutely connect with *so* many people.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Yeah."Parent Tax". Good job other taxes aren't as easy to avoid for parents. The Treasury would be in a lot of trouble.

[Youngian]

Tice and Farage have plenty to say on rising immigration if Hands wants to play on that issue.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Has Greg used this one?
"Bad Labour have the same policy as us except more degraded rivers". Sounds like a winner. (Sunak scrapped the targets anyway).

[Andy McDandy]

The difference being more people may be able to afford these ones. And they come with infrastructure and retail units included, not just 300,000 McMansions across the south Midlands.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Disrespectful Labour here, not attending a meeting somebody called. Greg of course would be first through the door if a bunch of hard-up constituents called a meeting.

Almost wish they had gone- Greg would have got about a week of terrible tweets out of it.