On this blessed ILR Day, I would like to remind everyone that care workers are the *entire point* of the ILR reforms, as Shabana Mahmood recognised in her IPPR speech in March. They were not overlooked and accidentally bundled into the proposals.

My new blog, on 8 ways Burnham is increasing immigration: 1 New community sponsor route 2 HE sponsor route 3 Business sponsor route 4 UK Resettlement Scheme 5 Lowering of salary requirements 6 EU youth scheme 7 Taxpayer funds for EU students 8 Caving in on ILR Link below!

🔔 14 seats changed hands at Local Council By-elections last month: 🌹 Lab: +2 (5 gained, 3 lost) 🌳 Con: +2 (3 gained, 1 lost) 🎗️ SNP: +1 (1 gained, 0 lost) 🌼 PC: +1 (1 gained, 0 lost) 🔶 LD: 0 (1 gained, 1 lost) 🟢 Grn: 0 (1 gained, 1 lost) ➡️ Ref: -3 (2 gained, 5 lost) 👤 Ind/Oth: -3 (0 gained, 3 lost)

He deleted it!

Disturbingly massive volume of racist posts aimed at Kemi this weekend after she rejected demands for slavery reparations.

The man is living on a different planet and must be removed from office.

Content warnings like this should not appear on any Parliamentary debate. Ever.

The craziest thing about it is that it will create a sudden shortage of care workers because they will all quit the moment they are given ILR We need far stricter rules on citizenship and much more stringent criteria for ILR like below, ASAP

“If they hate the system change it… If they’re not willing to change it, defend it!” Former special adviser to the Universities Minister @nickhillman says the current government has ‘got itself in a bind’ when it comes to student loans.

Today Labour MPs have: - said employers aren’t workers so they can tax them more (Reynolds) - refused to commit to the 3% defence spending target (Healey) - said we should rejoin the EU after campaigning saying we shouldn’t (Reeves) - opened the door to slavery reparations by talking up an official apology (Burnham) Are their priorities your priorities?

Who woulda thunk it? (well, anyone who was paying the slightest bit of attention knew this would happen)

You're so right to raise the loss of social trust. My mother had a horrific experience with a rogue tenant who scammed her out of tens of thousands of pounds. What struck me most was the way the state essentially connived in her misery; e.g. the council advised the tenant to stay put and keep rinsing an honest person, presumably to avoid them becoming responsible for housing her. Police refused to help when the tenant caused extreme property damage and even broke into my mother's property, saying 'it's a civil matter'. Once you've experienced that kind of anarcho-tyranny it makes you distrustful not just of the state but basically everyone you don't already know and trust. More and more people will come to feel that way and behave accordingly, which probably means more clan-like in their dealings with others. It's hard to quantify but something very precious is being destroyed

Rachel Reeves makes a lot of sense in this clip, what has changed in two short years for her now to discard of all this common sense?

Try telling that to the small business owners working evenings and weekends just to keep their businesses afloat.

This is a total lie. Everyone working in government knows that everything is in a state of paralysis because they aren't allowed to change anything that might pull Britain out of alignment with the EU - because Labour intends to drag us back in.

“I tried sovereignty and it’s too haaaaaard”

This is very out of touch with the reality of running a small business. Having started and run a business myself, I can tell you, being an employer doesn't mean you stop being a worker. You either put the hours in, or the business goes under. There's no 9-5, no sick days and no switching off. The business depends on how much work you're willing to put in. If you stop, the business stops. And it's not just your livelihood at stake. Your employees' jobs depend on it too. To suggest this isn't work is absurd.

Loadsacash Bash! The boy whose family are so rich they bought a flat next door to his theatre trib.al/w7z7NCb

Unfit to run the country, and yet somehow in charge

Rachel Reeves, LBC 6 February 2023 RACHEL REEVES: Well, I voted to remain in the European Union, I thought that was in our national interest. But almost seven years have passed now, we are outside the single market and the Customs Union, we have to forge a path outside. The last thing I want for our country is to restart the division that occurred during that referendum. IAIN DALE: If you believe coming out of the single market was so awful, if you believe coming out of the Customs Union has had bad effects if you think the lack of freedom of movement has damaged our economy, why wouldn't you argue to go back into those or allow those? RACHEL REEVES: Because those decisions have been made. And we are now outside, and I don't think it would be good for our economy and for business if we started a whole load of protracted negotiations over a period of time. What I'm putting on the table and what Keir is putting on the table are practical things that could be done now to make it easier for British businesses to trade across the European Union. The status quo is not working, we want to improve on it. But I don't want to go back to the terrible division that we had in our country over many years through these negotiations. IAIN DALE: Isn't the simple truth it's political expediency? Because you know that you'll find it more difficult to win back those Red Wall seats if you don't have a sort of bit of a Eurosceptic line in your policy line-up. RACHEL REEVES: No, it's a genuine belief and from talking to businesses, that what they want are some of the practical changes that we've started to put on the table to make our trading relationship easier. And the idea that another seven years of negotiations is going to serve our economy. Well, I just don't think it will. And it will open up the divisions, which I think did huge damage to us as a country and I don't want to reopen them.