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While the vote in Gorton and Denton may be described as a 'protest' vote the strength of both the Greens and Reform performance is something to worry all of us not just Labour.

How is that support justified by anyone?

Do they read what the regime has done, the mutilation and atrocities?

Curiously quiet

Not doesn't. Where on earth will people live? Especially people moving areas for new jobs etc, people leaning uni, starting over after divorce and all the miriad of situations where buying is neither desirable or practical and where they wouldn't be eligible for social housing/ social housing takes too long to access.

Private landlords fulfil a necessary role.

WELL SAID!

Agree with all that so much.

My fear is that actually there is not much politicians can do. I think Keir Starmer is a decent man and am sure he wants the best for the country. But everything is so global now including the economy/ tax etc. Surely if he could have fixed it he would have? That’s what scares me that the power is elsewhere and ordinary people are now very vulnerable.

Which courses are useless - just out of interest?

The CEO said some/many Computer Science degree courses didn't have the content that reflected technology changes or practiced the languages that are most commonly used. His intention was to hire 100% UK graduates, on great salaries, but the UK universities don't produce the number of CS grads with the required skills.

My guess is that the Government won't respond, until it's too late and in the meantime companies will decide to go offshore to get the skills.Too little/too late seems to be common theme.

This is really frightening. The party that has just won a stunning by-election victory has a deputy leader openly supporting a regime that hangs 16 year old girls for 'immorality'. Yes, it's a captured party. I wish people would wake up.

That is not in the report on their website. Why would they omit this crucial piece of information?

It's not remotely unusual for family members over eighteen to chat to one another while within the polling station either but that could be interpreted as collusion or coercion. This is why it's important that their report details exactly what it is they are alleging occurred.

To be eligible to vote in the UK you need to have either be British or Irish or a Commonwealth citizen with right to remain. There is no English language test.

https://www.gov.uk/elections-in-the-uk/general-election

Your own family with western liberal values had little to offer you in terms of insight into voting into some not all of the Islamic areas of the country. You haven't, after all, shipped them abroad for FGM or forced marriage, for which there have been recent convictions.

In very traditional Moslem areas there is a strong risk that men will be told how to vote by the Imam and the women told how to vote by the men. Whilst this would be illegal, so is FGM and forced marriage, yet it still goes on. You would then have one man exercising huge influence over who gets elected, from a religious basis in a secular country. This stuff matters for democracy. One person one vote secret ballots are a foundation stone of a civilised society.

FGM is not a religious practice nor is it associated with Islam. Shame on you.

Unlike France, for example where you do need to speak French. I personally think that anyone wishing to become a British citizen should be able to speak English.

And if they live in a party of Britain where English isn't spoken?

The British Citizen test is in English, so they will be speaking English.

Or is that not what you meant?

I looked it up yesterday and to get British citizenship you apparently need to be able to demonstrate that you can speak English, so in theory you cannot vote if you cannot speak English (as it should be)

But there is no English language test. In any case somebody else(who does speak/write in English) can fill in the form in behalf of an applicant e.g. when it's online.

To acquire British citizenship by naturalisation you need to be able to demonstrate that you can read, write & speak English. If you are British by birth there is no such requirement.

When did those rules come in though

That is far fetched nonsense.

Tell us what you really mean with people who don't speak English

For heavens sake. I am not pointing the finger at anyone in particular!

You are though

You started a thread on it.

Where in Britain is English not spoken other than Wales where I have extended Welsh family who speak both languages.

I suggest you re-read my OP then. It was about politics Inthe UK and not about race, as you appear to be implying.

Most Catholics in the country are Catholic in name only.