Credit Where It's Due

[Canary42]

Kemi admits the Tories got it wrong with record immigration.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgze55vrx6o

 

    

 

[davebro3]

yes - and Labour will get it even wronger!

[douglas9401]

Desperate weasel words from Badenough in an attempt to reconnect with what her party once had.

Voters.

Laziness, arrogance and ignoring the public are not the way to win folk over.

[Ryzen]

doug.....it worked for Labour :-)

[douglas9401]

They weren't lazy. 😏

[vulcan42]

substitute lying for lazy.

[rowanwitch]

It's a sensible approach, a little honesty goes along way.  A lot of reconnection required,  but I think they have already recovered the grey vote without lifting a finge

I was I interested to see an Irish immigration officer interviewed a few days ago.  They turn up, if they don't have either the right paperwork or other valid evidence they are put on the next ferry back to the uk.  Maybe we should take the same approach

[fender62]

torys got blocked by labour at every turn over illegal migrats or irregular migration (not a hurty word) add the echr migrant ngo's what could possibly go wrong, wait till spring and the whole thing starts again..

[douglas9401]

What you mean is that they couldn't or wouldn't handle the job they were there to do, fender.

They were unwilling to do the work so here we are, another shower going to fail miserably as the hordes descend to suck the life out of the country and poison it from within.

[ToraToraTora]

The problem with the boat situation is that we are continually stymied by our own 5C trobiscites. Labour are quickly discovering that it's not an easy problem. Well actually it's very easy but all our politicians are terrified of upsetting some group or other.

[Old_Geezer]

Everyone knows that immigration (both legal & illegal) has been messed up by many recent governments, and that the present one is definitely encouraging the latter, although I've not seen data on how the former is going. 

 

It's the voter's fault for not having rejected both main parties and voted instead for one that has immigration control as a priority. There's no guarantee they would prove effective either but ignoring them and forever giving the known to be ineffective incumbent parties turns instead, has to be a sign of insanity. A single term of something new has to be worth trying over another term of the same old same old.

[Untitled]

Ed Miliband said exactly the same thing ten years ago... almost word for word.

the trouble is that it's easy to say immigration is bad while in opposition and much much harder to deal with the reasons why our country is as dependent on immigration as it is. we don't have any politicians who are willing to talk about that and propose meaningful solutions. everyone just wants to look "tough" and can't do anything because they are unwilling to tackle the root causes.

expect more of the same.