Britain is not being "swamped" by refugees. There are 19 European countries who take more refugees than we do.
But when Conservative MPs use this hysterical language it has consequences - it riles up the far right protestors who scream abuse at terrified people.
It must stop.
Buried on page 199 of the Department of Health and Social Care’s annual report published yesterday is the shocking disclosure that it has incurred £8.7bn of losses - £8.7bn ! - on £12.1bn of PPE bought in 2020/21. Think about how that money could have been…
Government to be challenged in the @UKHouseofLords this afternoon by @premnsikka on abolishing triple lock for pensioners when NI Fund has £37billion surplus. Ministers hint they are going to spend the pensioners money on something else. Shocking will blog on this tonight.
We've now reached the point where the public are being advised to flag down buses to protect themselves from police officers. And the head of the Metropolitan Police remains in post. How does anyone in authority seriously think this is a sustainable position.
I was punched to the ground by a man, sustaining facial injuries requiring hospital attendance. The police officer who attended the scene then took my phone number under false pretences and called me repeatedly for weeks until eventually admitting he had done so to ask me...