Being the party of personal responsibility and the party of law & order means insisting on consequences - punishing wrongdoing properly.
We will be tough but fair, unlike those applying different rules of punishment and forgiveness based on whether others share their politics👇
The reality is Reform are absolutely terrified of any investigation of their finances. Nigel Farage’s crazy Clacton stunt. The private investigators. The attacks on the NCA. This isn’t normal politics. It’s something much deeper.
BREAKING: The Spanish government says passport and nationality checks on Italian passengers will begin at midnight local time.
The move comes in response to Italy's restrictions on Spanish travellers after last week's migrant influx in Ceuta.
https://t.co/WuTlXvYwFq
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It's 7am and my neighbour David's already out watering, garden lush as anything. He says the water bill's steep this summer, but you can't put a price on keeping up the street. Meanwhile my daughter's let hers go brown. No pride at all, this generation. 🇬🇧
Think this would be a mistake. One of things the public like about him is he’s seen to be normal/himself, comfortable in his skin. In Makerfield people liked they’d seen him at football games, he clearly enjoyed a drink like everyone else etc. He’s got a +20 national approval in an anti politics age!
This makes a serious point.
The 'white Brits will be in a minority by 2065' is a trope designed to go viral on social, to be repeated uncritically by shysters who know how it misleads.
All based on a definition of "White British" that would exclude the King. Or Nigel Farage's kids.
Reform’s farcical small boats policy shows they are not even close to being a serious party of government. And the British people know it. The choice at the next election will still be between Labour and the Tories > Daily Mail > https://t.co/fi9MKhpHxh
I honestly believe France would not allow a foreign navy to enter its territorial waters uninvited or to drop people on its shores without its permission. If you think otherwise you know nothing of France.
This is total drivel. The Royal Marines are going to forcibly return migrants to France? There are circa 6,000 Royal Marines, many already fully deployed in essential work for our national security. There are 96,000 very well-armed French gendarmes + the national police + municipal police. And that’s with out calling in the 10,000 French super-trained commandos. Not to mention the formidable GIGN. Is Reform trying to start a war with France? One we’d lose …. Bonkers.
Mike is right. You start invading France with Navy ships and the obvious and easy response is for France to end English border checks on the French side. France removes the security around the ports. Smugglers switch back to the 5000 trucks a day entering the UK, with no chance of checking them all.
Numbers go up, but you don't know by how much because these ones you can't count.
You know, while the weather's nice, it would surely be an ideal time to dig some big fuckoff reservoirs in time for winter, when they'll fill with water.
Then we'd have less of a water shortage next summer.
Perfect example of what I was talking about. When asked to actually present a practical policy Reform's response is this. Essentially that they'll turn back the small boats with "vibes"...
Lots of analysis about threat of the Greens usurping Labour on the left. Reform usurping the Tories on the right. But none about how Binface has completely usurped the Monster Raving Looney Party for the joke vote. Another party that just couldn’t adapt to the attention economy
Richard @TiceRichard I’ve explained to you in the past, very clearly, why this is particular approach is unworkable.
My fear is not that you’d try to do this, should you ever have the opportunity, it’s that the last thing the nation wants or needs are yet more promises that will not survive contact with legal, operational or practical reality.
This may be a catchy headline that you deploy to distract from other issues, but it will fail as a policy, and fail badly.