There will be people who think this is deeply unfair, but it can’t be avoided anymore. You cannot do politics like this now - going on the radio or TV and using a clever form of words to avoid saying the thing you think will end your career. It doesn’t work and it hasn’t worked for a long time.
The career-ending thing isn’t saying “I broke that promise and I’m sorry, but here’s why I really think it’s the right thing to do…” It is repeatedly saying you did it without holding up your hands; in the process treating your audience like they’re daft and eroding trust so much that nobody listens to your actual argument. Why would you get a hearing for what you believe is right if you can’t show enough respect to admit your choice broke a promise?
No parent would accept that kind of apology from a child; why do some of our politicians still think voters should accept it from them? Trust people to give you a hearing and they’ll listen even when you admit mistakes - maybe even more then, because it is human.
Today we learned that 1.9m foreign citizens are claiming UK benefits, a number which climbs to 3.4m when you include those born abroad. Can we dispense with the fiction - still peddled by the Left - that immigration represents an economic miracle that makes us all better off.
I've written a comment piece for the @Telegraph about the real reason white working class boys are doing worse in school than any other demographic: because white working class boys are constantly being told their 'toxic' and 'privileged'. https://t.co/6AMnRN8bHS
Under new guidance prison sentences will be less likely for ‘ethnic minorities’ and ‘faith minority communities’.
This would create a two tier justice system.
We belive in equality under the law.
Why doesn’t Labour?
Islamic Relief has been banned in the UAE for funding terrorist groups in the Middle East. Meanwhile, in London, as #Ramadan begins, Islamic Relief is openly collecting British donations to send to Al-Qaeda in Syria and Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood terrorists in Gaza. Yes, it is banned in the UAE but considered a charity in the UK—how does that add up?
Deputy PM Angela Rayner is told that 5 out of 7 new homes will go to migrants. She starts off by saying there is a housing crisis & then says there are plenty of them.
I hear the screeching of tyres & waiting for the crash.