Council Elections

[OneTealShaker]

The first declared seats going to Reform.

Reform +2
Labour -1

Buckle up people.

Labour put the end to taxi's (pretty much).

have often outstayed their welcome

Sneering liberals warned Brexit couldn’t be a success.

The country got the hardest Brexit available.

It hasn’t been a success.

And ten years later that is the fault of the people who predicted it?

I guess everyone on here being ‘superior’ and saying Reform isn’t going to improve all our lives is going to be to blame when that transpires too.

What's the point in investing in defence while we're importing god knows who by the thousands 😂😂😂

Reform only have three years anyway, then Restore Britain will sweep the board.

Let Reform win as many councils as possible, the shambles that will ensue will mean they will never ever win in a general election.

I responded to the fact the other person said 'unknown'.
I know what outstayed their welcome is, but they're not unknown to the authorities. Well, they shouldn't be if the Home Office was up to scratch.

And illegal only means no right to stay, not unknown as the other poster also said.

How would you know if someone was an illegal immigrant?

If they are taking jobs off UK residents, these would have to be UK residents willing to work cash in hand with no employment protection. I wouldn't be encouraging anyone to work in those circumstances.

Ds won his election for the Green Party, he will be the youngest councillor in Sheffield.

Yes, illegal immigrants are either unknown to the authorities, or they are known but their current location is unknown. They greatly outnumber asylum seekers. They are either people who came into the country clandestinely (stowaways on lorries) or people who came here for legitimate reasons (holiday, visiting relatives, business) and never left when their visa ran out.

The University of Michigan’s index of US consumer sentiment has dropped to 48.2 this month, according to a provisional reading, down from April’s 49.8 – which was itself the lowest on record.
An index of ‘current economic conditions’ fell by 9% month-on-month, as people worried that their household finances were under pressure from soaring prices at the pumps.

US consumer confidence hits a record low - so the economy will suffer

The idea that university is a waste of time is becoming very mainstream. Universities collapsing isn’t a worry for these voters - just the opposite. Their dislike of data, experts and ‘superiority’ means they’ll applaud anyone taking a wrecking ball to the sector.

The majority will be try to claim asylum, they get free housing, meals, £49 as you say, free healthcare, including medical, dental, eye care, maternity benefits and maternity payout, free schooling, free school meals, only costing the taxpayers 6-10 million a day

The only ones who are not known to authorities are the ones smuggled in that are unprocessed.

All the rest will be visa. So apart from the successful ones smuggled in, the authorities know. They know when a students visa runs out. They know when a travel visa runs out, a work visa. They are known to the authorities because they had a visa.

I'm sure plenty of people on here happily pay illegal immigrants to dispose of household waste no questions asked, or do their manicures and waxing, or wash their car.

And yet no other country has an NHS run like ours and many have health systems with much better outcomes.

https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/commentaries/qa-the-uks-new-approach-to-refugee-family-reunion/

I thought this was interesting.

Says that harder to bring family members to UK once you have asylum.

They get £49 or free meals and £8 a week. They most definitely don’t get maternity benefits - most of them are men.

Yes, which is why people need to be processed faster, then either removed or, if allowed to stay, working and contributing.

How many asylum seekers do know first hand? A relative came to the UK and sought asylum a few years ago. Within a month, they were put into a £1,000 a week care home - free food, free energy bills, free everything. They even managed to save the money from the UK government and send it home, via a family 'friend'. They went to the top of the queue for a needed operation. They get everything free that need from nhs.

They have recently been been placed in a one bedroom flat with a free carer, even though there is a massive waiting list for social accomodation.

They now get full disabled benefits.

They have never worked in this country and maybe they never will. So please don't tell us that asylum seekers only earn £49 per week because it's nonsense. They get MUCH more than that!!

AND, remember we were all told that we have to have paid enough National Insurance to get the full pension. What do think is going to happen to this person. That rule won't apply to them and they definitely won't be thrown out onto the street.

Where?
Who's health systems are better for all?

Brilliant. Congratulate him from me. How old is he?

If only small businesses were supported by the government, eh?

So misplaced. It isn’t going to address the issues they want it to or are promised.

Yes, Reform are of course fomenting all those divisions for their own ends.Personally, I despise them, think they will do very little for their working class voters in reality, voters who I don't think their leaders care about in reality either.

The only positive outcome is there’s time for Reform run councils to blow up before the next GE. Farage as PM is a terrible dystopian vision that I find chilling. There’s only one class that Farage seems to care about and that’s the .01% financial elite. His policies under UKIP focused on deregulation and cutting any kind of employment rights including rolling back min wage etc.

UKIP would put an end to most legislation regarding matters such as weekly working hours, holidays … overtime, redundancy or sick pay etc. and provide a statutory, standard, very short employment contract template …

I wouldn’t envision Reform being much different. Jenrick on the Today programme saying Reform will embrace cryptocurrency the darling of organised crime and terrorism. Not at all influenced by Farage receiving a £5 million ‘donation’.

Congratulations. That's an amazing achievement.