To think Starmer has shot himself in the foot.

I did a miniscule bit of research to find out why Albanians would be justified in claiming asylum here. Seems to me that they aren't.

Refugees but only the useful ones eh?

Are all taxi licencing council rules the same?

Many many cars in Oldham are registered in Wolverhampton.
I assume it's because either it's a lot cheaper or there's some slacker rules for Wolverhampton.

www.oldham.gov.uk/info/200204/licensing/2702/hackney_carriages_and_private_hire/2
includes a Driver Awareness Training course which covers
The questions will cover the following topics, all of which will be covered in the training provided:

Licence conditions/policy
Customer care skills
Basic numeracy skills
Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)
Road signs
Highway code

VS
iapply.co.uk/taxilicensing/driver
Which doesn't.

Perhaps that's why drivers register with Wolverhampton.

As for his strangers comment, strong communities need to be able to converse. I think it was Mylene Klass who says of her immigrant parents - they both had to learn to speak English and that really helped them fit in.

Links removed (Cut and paste it) as I think 2 links is stopping me post.

Labour need to get rid of Starmer. He’s a PR disaster, he’s so detested by the media and a lot of the public any good stuff (such as the Employment Rights Bill, which btw Farage voted against)which btw is getting lost in the negative headlines.

You only have to do the most miniscule bit of research - aka googling - to understand why Albanian people came to the UK. But I imagine that is beyond you.

I have no respect for people who describe fellow human beings as "illegals". None at all. And being as you neither know nor care the first thing about how the world works and the virtually insurmountable barriers presented to desperate people, I'll leave you to wallow in your ignorance.

I don't think Starmer gives a shit, tbh, he's too busy trying to look like a Tory. If he gave a shit, he wouldn't be targeting disabled people, many of whom are vulnerable.

As far as voters go, friends and colleagues that I've discussed it with will be switching their vote to LD or Green, depending on which of the two they think is most likely to succeed.

It's not an issue for me, as I live in an LD/Con marginal, so I vote tactically for the LD anyway.

I never said I disagree with immigration. In fact I don’t want it to stop. I just think it needs to be highly controlled and 100% skills based.

I also agree with taking refugees.

You seem unable to have a level headed discussion where both sides are taken into consideration.

Calling me ignorant and unpleasant is just childish. Grown ups tend to debate things without insults.

Their paymasters! The public sector unions. Nothing else matters to them as they can't bite the hand that feeds them.

Oh, personal insults now? Well, that's how you know you're talking with tolerant left.

But he really didn't get substantially more votes than Corbyn did 5 years earlier -the votes were actually very similar.

He won a landslide victory not because he was popular and won lots of new votes. He won because the Tory vote collapsed.

So he's really not popular at all - barely any improvement on Corbyn.

Once Tories get a decent leader and start to look half way competent, Labour will be out of office for another decade or so. If Tories don't turn it around, then we will have Reform in power at the next GE.

You only have to do the most miniscule bit of research - aka googling - to understand why Albanian people came to the UK. But I imagine that is beyond you.

I have no respect for people who describe fellow human beings as "illegals". None at all. And being as you neither know nor care the first thing about how the world works and the virtually insurmountable barriers presented to desperate people, I'll leave you to wallow in your ignorance.

'illegally' If I break into someone's house i've done something illegal.

A country without proper borders is nothing.

'illegally' If I break into someone's house i've done something illegal.

A country without proper borders is nothing.

Oh sure. That's exactly why we are where we are now. People like me pointing out that nobody is "illegal".

I’m guessing a fair few who will be hit by this voted Labour at the last GE.

The issue is does Starmer care if those votes are lost and who would they vote for instead

He is, and always has been an unprincipled self centred tosser. Why people voted for him fuck knows.

He will be gone well before the next election - probably sooner than later now

I agree. Photo driving licences have become a kind of default ID card. We need something similar for non drivers and then we're nearly there and can start expanding the use to link through to other official government websites like voting registers, access to NHS, immigration status, right to work status, etc. As you say, other countries have ID cards and some have had them for a long time, with no serious detrimental effects.

The thing is though is that if everyone who is persecuted in a country flees it, that country will never change. If everyone who was gay had fled say England over the centuries when they faced persecution we wouldn’t have the more tolerant society now.

Much of life is an accident of birth, we should be focusing our funds and resources on getting other countries to change to stop the persecution so people wouldn’t need to flee.