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You're making things up. I don't default to thinking that all sick people are scroungers. You're an example of one who wasn't. But your example doesn't prove that there aren't any scroungers. I worked with someone who played darts every Thursday, and was off sick every Friday. And as per my...

Exactly. Someone on here willing to think. Anecdotal evidence of what some voters are thinking is not easily sourced.

Increasing tax threshold so that lower paid people pay less tax. Not all workers are in favour of workers' rights in the way you might think. For example, people with no intention of taking sick days went they aren't ill are not necessarily in favour of sick pay from day 1. And they aren't...

Certainly there would be Tory voters in Labour seats would be willing to vote Reform to get Labour out. But there is also great potential for traditional Labour supporters to vote Reform. In spite of the red wall collapse of the Labour vote against Boris Johnson - and that vote didn't come...

If he has 32% in each constituency, then he will get tactical voting in his favour as well as against him, then he is in with a chance. Particularly in the "red wall" which has already showed its willingness to turn against Labour.

I think perhaps you've misunderstood what I meant by the sentence "But we can't".

I would love to deport our own home-grown rapists as well. But we can't. But we can at least get rid of as many as possible.

If they're going to do that, how would being a signatory to the ECHR stop them? They could opt out just as we could now.

Where is the "elsewhere" you talk about? You're aware that Australia isn't accepting convicts nowadays?

No, obviously not. I don't share your opinion that there were no human rights in this country until the ECHR was formed, and frankly, I don't see how that position is remotely tenable. What I want to take away is some more of criminal's rights. Specifically, if we have granted them a...

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2036595/Rapist-conviction-Jamaica-witness-gangs-murder-human-rights This didn't happen, then?

When the whistle bowls, the ball is dead and nothing that happens after the whistle can be changed. The penalty after full time scenario is talking about something that happened before the whistle, and so VAR can change it.

Hope you're right, but I doubt it. Many of the 0 or 1 goals conceded will become 1 or 2 simply because a PL player will do something special that a Championship player can't do, or conversely a PL player will take the reasonable chance that a Championship player would let in. Keeping Trafford...

But it doesn't protect the individual members of the public from having their human rights taken away. Like this child molestor who has had convictions for sex with minors and indecent assault, in 2008 and 2013. When it comes to locking him away from his (and other people's) children, there is...

If YouGov is a responsible polling organisation, they must have asked a lot more than that. We don't know whether the opponents of immigration are opposed to even a single immigrant, or opposed to a million a year, or something in between. Conversely, of course, we don't know whether the...

At risk of derailing the last 4 pages of the argument, the ECHR isn't the reason why the death penalty was abolished. The death penalty was suspended in 1965 and later formally abolished without being reintroduced, and it was done by Act of Parliament. There seems to be a belief that all our...

It isn't actually. British child molesters already have the right to live in Britain for the rest of their lives. Cases like this are about whether we should grant that right to foreign child molesters as well.

Yes, the Spanish are notoriously good at hoovering up vast numbers of fish.

It's probably not the best of times to be publicly calling for the murder of MPs. Not with the firebomb attacks on Starmer AND the 31 month in jail precedent for Mrs. Connolly.

You can't just assume that because the EU is bigger than the UK, their fishing rights per capita are a lot greater. They have a large chunk of the Med, of course, and half the Baltic, and Spain/Portugal have a load of the North Atlantic, but a large part of the EU has little or no fishing...