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So, the Conservative rhetoric on this will continue into the next general election campaign, which will presumably be run along the lines of “let us do all the hateful things we were too incompetent to manage in the fourteen years we’ve already been in power.” However, as has been pointed out...

I’m genuinely glad that life is good for you. However, there is no objective measure by which the NHS is in a better place now than it was in 2010. And while I’m not against the pension triple lock per se, why are this government attempting to cut working age benefits at the same time as...

Is it successful to run a country into the ground in full public view? To focus on dog whistle politics and angering the electorate, dropping any pretence of human decency or morality? That’s not my definition of success, and if you look at this government and see success, I’d be interested in...

So, your argument appears to be that we either can’t or shouldn’t implement any form of social safety net (or presumably any other form of policy) until we’ve reduced illegal immigration to zero? I’m sorry, but that’s a nonsense. Why do you think illegal immigration has risen so...

I’d settle for sane and tolerable tbh. This smells to me like “the wall with Mexico” was to Trump, get everyone rabid and all eyes focused on it, even if legally dubious. It doesn’t matter if it passes or not, just as long as it sets out a contentious position and keeps people angry and...

The only way we’re going to stop refugees entirely, is to step in and involve ourselves in other nations domestic quarrels, going so far as enacting regime change where the incumbent government can’t be brought round to treating all its citizens fairly, even the ones they don’t like. This...