This migrant problem is going to let Reform in isn’t it?

He was 100% privately educated. He was educated at a private school. It turned from grammar to private while he was there and his fees were covered by LA ie taxpayer. So yeah, he went to a private school, irrespective of who paid his fees. Or do you think that pupils on bursaries who attend private schools aren't privately educated?

Having a post grad from Oxford literally means Oxford educated 🙄

Its not far right to expect our borders to be enforced.

Many people are absolutely sick of the inaction and the relentless effect of boatload after boatload of young men being absorbed illegaly into this country, who may or may not have suspicious intentions, who we're having to pay for and house and support, when our housing, health services, schools, roads and general society is under severe strain. People are desperate and taking whatever course of action they can to try to stop this completely unsustainable influx.

@twistyizzy get your facts right ! He was neither privately educated nor went to oxford for 1st degree, went for his post grad

Don't forget his grammar school was a state school before it became private (without Starmer's input)

I am in Wales and we now have our first Senedd Reform member (defected from Tories). She uses racist slurs and is generally a nasty piece of work.

Remember all the Reform candidates who had to stand down during the GE because Reform HQ failed to vet them properly?

I don’t believe they are orchestrated. These are organic protests from local community. You can go find loads of footage online of these protest. They are hours long and have lots of locals voicing their views.

Which party was in government in 2013?

A large proportion of the British public is sick to the back teeth of Labour already.

I don't want to pay for more people who have and will never contribute.
I won't vote Reform though....

Don't forget privately educated too before ending up at Oxford, but yeh not highly privileged at all

Does the evidence that the protests have been orchestrated by neo nazi groups not concern you?

What a ridiculous statement. While Labour's actions may be deeply unpopular, there is no waging a war on the citizens of the UK.

The man with so much integrity.

Any Labour supporters want to comment on this? Smug Starmer with his toolmaker Dad? One rule for him and another for everyone else.

My neighbour is a newly elected Reform councillor. There's huge piles of dog poo all over their garden regularly and I've seen signs of animal cruelty and neglect. They also smoke a lot of weed.

People have no idea who they're voting for when they only follow a single party.

I'm pretty worried about this. I know a few people who openly support reform who would never have wanted to be associated with parties like BNP or UKIP for fear of outing themselves as racist.

It feels like the far right is gaining a scary amount of support atm.

We also have a problem of not being able to openly talk about things like British culture, immigration - legal or illegal, religion, without being branded racists.
It was telling that there was a mum with a sign saying 'I'm not far right, I'm just worried about my kids'.

If the tables were turned and there was a hotel full of British men somewhere very culturally different, do you think the locals would be cool with them carrying on and trying to kiss the local school girls?

I have to disagree that Labour have no interest in sorting out migration, illegal
in particular. They know people will vote with their feet if they don't make inroads into a problem whose complexities we are only just beginning to understand. The first duty of a government is to keep its citizens safe. At the moment, many people don't feel safe, most with good reason. There is evidence that Labour are introducing as many different approaches as possible to staunch illegal migration. Europe-wide, though, it is the right who have made difference. But Labour still have four years to go.

Blame Starmer he refuses to deal with the problem.

Pierce the boats - if young men are swimming out to the boat then why cant the French police do this. Or why cant the UK provide some people to man the beaches.

The digusting scenes I saw a few weeks ago with young men pushing young children out of the way to get onto a boat. Shame on them. They then just disappear into the black economy. We have a number of car washes and nail bars. None have closed down, there is no appetite to do it so its just left.

What labour need to do is stop waging a war of hate against ordinary British people who work hard and have high aspirations for themselves, their kids and the future stability of this country. That might help.

I work on criminal justice stuff and the drivers of crime are largely due to poverty and deprivation.

We have high housing costs, stagnate wages, high bills, high childcare costs and people just cannot cope anymore. We really need to fix the fundamentals in this country.

Migrants aren't the issue, we actually need more immigration. I remember during Brexit farage blamed Eastern Europeans for the reasons northern towns were suffering it wasn't the Eastern Europeans it was austerity but people lapped it up, he's doing the same with migrants. If they stopped all immigration including small boats we'd still have low wages, high housing costs etc

That they are organised by far right hate groups?

Thats not what I saw on YouTube. They are well documented. Hours and hours of live feed. These are local people. Whatever their initial political inclination. One of their kids was raped.

Automatically labelling and dismissing anyone and everyone who objects to the use of their local hotels by migrants as XRW or neo-facist is a sure fire way of getting a Reform Government next time around