If Elected As Prime Minister Boris, Vows To Get Tough On Immigration.

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7187259/Target-slashing-immigration-tens-thousands-not-included-Boris-Johnson-plan.html

[Bazile]

It's easy to talk tough and and make promises , when you are pitching for a position
The reality is that promises made, are not acted upon , once you've got your feet under the table .

Remind me , who was it that promised to reduce immigration to the few thousands ?

[Old_Geezer]

Always time. Should be to zero net anyway. We're still too crowded.

[Jackdaw33]

I trust Boris far more than I would trust Hunt.

[Gromit]

It is a great pledge, and Boris is certain to achieve it - because he hasn’t set a target.
So if immigration goes down by ten people, he can say his policy is a success.
It is a change from Theresa (we’ll reduce from hundreds of thousand to tens of thousands) May, who promised the Earth and delivered nothing. Boris is promising nothing, and will probably deliver next to nothing.

[dannyk13]

Gromi, I f he is following the Australian method then there will be a natural decrease in immigration.

[youngmafbog]

It's not necessarily the numbers that are a problem though Gromit, it's the types let in.

We should only allow people who will contribute, no benefits and no scroungers. On top an allowance for the worlds true asylum seekers.

[jno]

Cameron made the same pledge. Tory voters fall for it every time. I wonder if this says something about the politicians or about the voters?

[youngmafbog]

Voters can only live in hope. No one else is saying what a lot of people want and that is to control immigration.

If someone, other than Boris, was saying it maybe the voters would go for them instead. But they are not.

[Zacs-Master]

Maybe his reasoning is thus:
Hard Brexit = economic crash = no *** will want to come here.

[david small]

Wait, a politician vows to do something. Now where have I heard that before? Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.

[TonyV]

Promises come to nothing once you are in office.

[Zacs-Master]

I heard a very eminent speaker call this phase of a politicians career the ‘auction of promises’. Which I thought was very pertinent.

[naomi24]

//Tory voters fall for it every time. I wonder if this says something about the politicians or about the voters? //

The voters I reckon. Tory voters fall for promises that could be achieved whereas Labour voters fall for ....

"Oh Jeremy Corbyn!"

[jno]

naomi, as successive leaders (of both parties) have demonstrated, the promises can't be achieved. They just sound nice.

[ludwig]

It's interesting because it's like a general election campaign but where only Tories are allowed to vote, so they're both just trying to out-Tory each other.

Zilch being said about how they plan to improve the NHS for example.

[naomi24]

jno, there's a difference between believing that the possible may be achieved - and believing the impossible will be achieved.

[fender62]

britains awash with migrants living on tax credits, and other benefits
contributing 0 so are not a net benefit, and they are just the legal ones
we know of. and then are te illegals under the radar, arriving daily.
and the foreign criminals in prison and at large, the horse has bolted.

[Peter Pedant]

elected ?
did you say elected you old moo?
we dont have a vote !
and before you say it - yes we should have

[Old_Geezer]

Politicians don't have a great reputation for honesty, but as they are all tarred with the same brush, one has to go with those saying the right things rather than deliberately choose one saying the wrong things, presumably in the hope they'll do the opposite.

Out on the 31st, put in a scheme to regulate immigration, so far sounds ok. State yet a further delay likely, write off loans that were already cheap, at taxpayers expense, sounds like a downward spiral. Still what one lacks in policy one might make up for in muck slinging.

[fender62]

i wonder if any of them actually care about the state of the uk
or rather it's just about getting in to poweri have 0 faith in any of them
anymore, and that's sad.