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Peter Vintner's avatar

Surely the Labour government's biggest problem is with those on the more traditionally anti-EU Left of the Party. Those who tend to hold the luminaries of the past (Bevin, Benn, Foot etc.) in infallible, god-like esteem.

Little Britain, with inflated ambitions to lord it over one and all, and tell everyone how to run (ruin) their affairs, isn't just a Tory thing.

It's not just modern Tories who've failed to understand that immigration and EU citizens' reciprocal rights (FOM) aren't the same thing.

Here's a reminder that Labour became just as much of a Brexit party as the Tories... https://labourlist.org/2019/04/labour-confirms-it-wants-to-end-freedom-of-movement/

And while the face of Labour may have changed, the substance hasn't really moved on that much.

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Sue's avatar

Agree....but there you go again with the tattoos. There may well be a Venn diagram that demonstrates a connection between tattoos and thugs......but presumably not all thugs have tattoos (consider the thuggishness of some Tory MPs or, say, Trump) and certainly not everyone who has a tattoo is a thug. Appreciate this is a matter of no importance btw but glad to have finally got this off my (as yet un-tattooed) chest.

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Anita Roy's avatar

You would have thought those massagers of figures in Tory party would already have thought of taking foreign students out of immigration numbers. Let's hope Labour are braver but I'm having doubts about that.

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