This kind of brainless gotcha annoys me (maybe more than it should) because...what do you think should have been done differently? Jenrick and Braverman are some of the worst people in British politics, but what do these people think should have been done with an asylum seeker from Sudan in 2023?
The thing is, Mahmood's policies aren't landing. They're angering unions / left of the party, they are incoherent and the public they're courting don't care/understand what is happening. Why keep her around? Tells me Burnham (team?) probably not v.good at this stuff.
This is where the ethno-nationalist campaigning by Farage, Lowe, Yaxley-Lennon, Musk et al is taking us.
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
"The Guardian revealed earlier this month that under a new visa clampdown, children as young as five who live in the UK legally with their parents are being sent letters by the Home Office encouraging them to return to their countries of origin."
I am really running out of words.
Sir Almaviva
How many times do we have to read this nonsense? If he qualified for asylum at the time, it was right to grant it to him. No one could have predicted in 2023 that he would commit a crime in 2026. Unless you argue that welcoming asylum seekers is bad, but then you're the same as Reform and Restore.
Luke Piper
Carsten Timmermann
I finished reading this book. You can never go wrong with the Singers, surely one of the greatest literary families of all time. Three siblings, three great writers: Isaac, Israel and Esther.
"Allies of Shabana Mahmood are confident that she would be kept as Home Secretary by a Burnham premiership and her reforms would hardly be watered down, if at all" - PoliticsHome
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
This is an important point that has not been getting enough attention.
Évariste Galois, struggling to prove a theorem:
Because it is not about numbers. It's about racism and xenophobia.
But then we have to talk about every single Home Secretary and government so we're not going to talk about that
Sir Almaviva
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