Yeah, I suppose it is 😑

How is he so bad at politics?

I honestly think we'll see one of them crack and explicitly say that their parents should never have been allowed to settle here and that their political career has essentially been one long act of restitution.

As best as I can tell, Lineham is literally a professional transphobe and this crap is how he advertises his grim little enterprise.

Maybe this will get him a few more patreon subscribers… at cost of publicly humiliating himself yet again.

What a sad, sad life.

The first prominent MP to personally demand the exile their own parents will surely be the one to win the hearts of the nation.

I think it's a mistake to require them to replace a gas boiler entirely, but it's good for those situations where that's appropriate.

Lol, "scourge"

For some of it, perhaps. But they didn't need to be cruel to trans people, for example. Or to talk about disabled people and immigrants the way they have. Or to cut green investment and constantly threaten to cut it more. It's been a thoroughly miserable ride.

I'll be honest, this isn't the only reason why I have a problem with Labour at the moment, but this celebration of immigration raids and twisting of words to describe boat crossings as illegal makes me very uncomfortable. The country feels altogether meaner and more aggressive.

You said migrants, so I was talking about migrants, not specifically asylum seekers. It does cost a lot to run an artificially slow processing system… making that process more efficient will help.

I don't know if you're ever going to win those people over? Certainly dressing up your policies in faux-fascist terminology and imagery isn't going to placate them. All you end up doing is upsetting people who don't have a problem with foreigners (which is most people).

But immigrants are being used as a scapegoat and the more Labour buys into the lie that immigration is the main reason why people's lives suck, the more that people are going to listen to Farage and co who will simply tell them that Labour have failed to deal with the problem.

This is obviously the fundamental problem - the large number of people who are struggling don't want someone who they feel no obligation towards jumping the queue. People are going to put themselves and they're families first.

The vast majority of immigration is completely legal and financially beneficial to the country as a whole, but the costs and benefits are extremely unevenly spread. As a country, we can have an honest conversation about that. It shouldn't all be about placating fascists who will never be satisfied.

It's meant that the conversation has been twisted to the point that it seems perfectly reasonable to be taking extreme measures to combat what is often an issue of paperwork rather than a fundamental threat to the wellbeing of the average Brit.

I think it's about having a clear, honest message. What typical Brits - even those who aren't naturally hostile to immigrants - believe about the situation is a long way from the truth. The blurring of the lines between refugees and illegal immigrants is a particularly pronounced distortion.

No, I'm saying that we can manage both the reality of the number of the various categories of immigrantd entering the country and the public perception of these categories of immigrant without broadly demonising immigrants and hugely (and performatively) reducing the rights of refugees specifically.

I don't know what point you're trying to make.

So we should give the people demonstrating exactly what they want and allow the dishonest framing of the situation to be shifted entirely to the way Farage sees it?

What's happens then? They all think it's solved and move on with their lives? Or do they demand more?