[Politics] Are Labour going to turn this country around?

[cunning fergus]

Ah - so that's what lead to all your posts on this topic.

To some extent you’re right. Immigration (whether legal or illegal) on the scale we have experienced in the last 20 years, and continue to experience now causes problems. It may solve some but it definitely creates others.

If we were all paying less tax and were living in the kind of society we everyone bought everyone else a coke maybe these threads would not be divisive, but we’re in the real world and taxpayers are felling poorer whilst the Government, previous lot included have no intention of dealing with immigration levels.

I do have a hotel near me accommodating asylum seekers, aside from the locals losing their jobs I have no other contact with it that causes me problems. Others where I live feel differently.

More tricky is the scheme to build 200 houses near where I live, in the plan the plot will be saturated in housing of all types. This is creating more noise locally as, amongst other potential issues, the local Council have not agreed to put locals that are on the housing list to the top of the priority list for the scheme.

This is causing a lot of heat and the local MP and councillors are getting dogs abuse because people are making their minds up why. It is this type of issue that is touching people up and down the country and why immigration on the levels we are experiencing is a problem.

 

[Chicken Run]

No reason why the extra money that France wants can't come from savings made from cuts in overseas aid spending also

France wants more UK money to intercept small boats

French authorities have until now resisted entering the Channel to stop dinghies leaving beaches for Britain, but its government is prepared to change the rules

www.thetimes.com

It probably does, anyway i accepted years ago that this country should provide billions to overseas aid, if the money for housing irregular immigration folk in Hotels and all the associated costs comes out of this pot then fine by me, i actually feel a little better about the huge costs we spend on this, having recently learned this.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Some good news for a change.

Arrests of migrants working illegally in the UK have increased by 51% in the year since the general election, after the government targeted restaurants, nail bars, and construction sites.

From 5 July 2024 - the day after Labour won the election - to 31 May 2025, 6,410 people have been arrested on suspicion of working illegally, according to Home Office figures.

Alongside the arrests, since Labour came to power, almost 30,000 people who had no right to be in the UK have been returned to their home countries, according to Home Office data.

Arrests of illegal migrant workers increase by 51% in year since Labour elected

From 5 July 2024 - the day after Labour won the election - to 31 May 2025, 6,410 people have been arrested on suspicion of working illegally in the UK, according to Home Office figures.

news.sky.com

 

[Chicken Run]

Some good news for a change.

Arrests of migrants working illegally in the UK have increased by 51% in the year since the general election, after the government targeted restaurants, nail bars, and construction sites.

From 5 July 2024 - the day after Labour won the election - to 31 May 2025, 6,410 people have been arrested on suspicion of working illegally, according to Home Office figures.

Alongside the arrests, since Labour came to power, almost 30,000 people who had no right to be in the UK have been returned to their home countries, according to Home Office data.

Arrests of illegal migrant workers increase by 51% in year since Labour elected

From 5 July 2024 - the day after Labour won the election - to 31 May 2025, 6,410 people have been arrested on suspicion of working illegally in the UK, according to Home Office figures.

news.sky.com

This is good news, there are many folk sharing food delivery accounts with unauthorised workers as well as many’Ped Riders’ racing round town not properly insured

 

[Weststander]

Some good news for a change.

Arrests of migrants working illegally in the UK have increased by 51% in the year since the general election, after the government targeted restaurants, nail bars, and construction sites.

From 5 July 2024 - the day after Labour won the election - to 31 May 2025, 6,410 people have been arrested on suspicion of working illegally, according to Home Office figures.

Alongside the arrests, since Labour came to power, almost 30,000 people who had no right to be in the UK have been returned to their home countries, according to Home Office data.

Arrests of illegal migrant workers increase by 51% in year since Labour elected

From 5 July 2024 - the day after Labour won the election - to 31 May 2025, 6,410 people have been arrested on suspicion of working illegally in the UK, according to Home Office figures.

news.sky.com

Floating voter here, Green in GE’s.

I think there’s been quite a bit of good news. The transport infrastructure spending plans, some recent natural environmental stuff, closer ties to the EU especially the under 30’s exchange agreement & passports on EU entry plan, whilst the government expertly kept in with both the US and EU when Trump would’ve wanted chaos.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

This is good news, there are many folk sharing food delivery accounts with unauthorised workers as well as many’Ped Riders’ racing round town not properly insured

That article also mentions more cooperation with Interpol.

 

[drew]

Reading this thread there’s seems to be collective amnesia of just how awful the Tories were.
They left behind a total skipfire, sorting the mess out is going to take time, we’re not even a 5th of the way through the term. Expectations are unrealistic is at this stage in the game

Sunak wasn't stupid, he saw what was coming on the horizon and called the early election which he knew he would lose.