Starmer's vision quest

[matticus]

Good ol' 'Two Houses' Rayner. Nice bit of leftie hypocrisy.

Fair point: almost everyone left of centre in the UK has been baying for owners of 2 houses to be hanged.

 

[Psamathe]

Fair point: almost everyone left of centre in the UK has been baying for owners of 2 houses to be hanged.

But are they missing the bigger issue of those who own holiday homes. At least those owning one and renting out the other are providing rental properties whereas holiday home ownership seems to have many additional negative impacts.

 

[Pross]

Stevo forgot to mention she also lives rent free.

Yep, in Stevo’s head in the house between Corbyn and Abbott

 

[BoldonLad]

But are they missing the bigger issue of those who own holiday homes. At least those owning one and renting out the other are providing rental properties whereas holiday home ownership seems to have many additional negative impacts.

Much easier to be envious of a holiday too

 

[CXRAndy]

How ludicrous


View: https://x.com/WatchdogTh96012/status/1961390293544005802?t=_zkkEVKQOOJ3JCkyXlXojQ&s=19

 

[CXRAndy]

See how it looks Angie

View: https://x.com/ArchRose90/status/1961401176072548640?t=7-maxyQNkDBgA53GH8Q0Yw&s=19

 

[CXRAndy]

 

[AndyRM]

I read about Restore Britain a while ago.

For an eye watering £2,500 you can join the "Cromwell Club" and get a tie as well as other "perks".

Normal membership is just £20 a year, but it's very two tier.

 

[Stevo 666]

While this may true, I don't think the majority of the electorate thought they were going to have to pay more, it was "yes, raising taxes, for other people, is necessary". Hence the liberal use of such weasel terms as "the rich", "working people", "those with the broadest shoulders".

Raising taxes is fine for many folks, as long as other people have to pay them...

 

[Stevo 666]

Yep, in Stevo’s head in the house between Corbyn and Abbott

They're fun to have around in politics. A bit of occasional p1ss taking of them does seem to elicit a quick and sometimes slightly irked set of responses from some on here

 

[Stevo 666]

 

[bobzmyunkle]

View attachment 9716

Just like to say that I do find this right wing humour hilariously funny. Thanks for sharing @Stevo 666.

 

[CXRAndy]

“I work as an asylum decision maker for the HO [Home Office] and I can tell you with authority that 93% of asylum seekers to the UK are men between 18-35 and 92% of them are refused asylum,”

“The truth is the vast majority of asylum seekers are actually economic migrants abusing the asylum system.”

No shît, we all know this.

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...m-job-at-home-office-processing-asylum-claims

 

[Ian H]

In 2024, asylum seekers and refugees made up around 16% of immigrants to the UK. If including the British National (Overseas) scheme in the category of humanitarian routes, up to 19% of immigration in that year would fall into that category.

Decisions and refusals

Not all asylum applications are successful. In 2024, 53% were refused at initial decision (not counting withdrawals). The annual refusal rate was highest in 2004 (88%) and lowest in recent times in 2022 (24%).
When an application is refused at initial decision, it may be appealed. By June 2024, around a third of applications lodged in 2023 had a known outcome and, of these, around a third had been refused.
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn01403/

 

[CXRAndy]

Soon as it said asylum and refugees it's a biased outlet