Scouseport_Shrimp wrote:Lets not forget the daily millions of £pounds being spent on largely uninvited visitors to the UK, not only on scores of hotels, but the spending on the NHS that uninvited guests are burdening the tax payer with...
Now don't be a silly-billy! Blaming refugees is the only tactic left for the Tories, and it is a problem they've deliberately created by not dealing with asylum claims and allowing a backlog to grow. Also, in 2022, according to the government's statistics, there were 99,939 asylum seekers in 2022. That accounts for 0.15% of the population. Given the demographic of asylum seekers, even if there were zero asylum seekers, that would 'improve' the NHS by less than 0.1%, and probably not even that much.
Scouseport_Shrimp wrote:I appreciate who the government of the day currently is but on who's watch did this all kick off with
THIRTEEN YEARS IN CHARGE!!! Seriously, when will you stop blaming a government from
THIRTEEN YEARS AGO??? And even then, I don't know what you are
blaming on others in the first place?
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In the centre of our movement stands the idea of a Charter of Human Rights, guarded by freedom and sustained by law".
Winston Churchill, Chairman of the United Europe Movement, in a speech as President of the first Congress of Europe in The Hague.
Churchill was a key mover in the formation of the '
1951 Refugee Convention' and also, what led to the Convention on Human Rights.
You know that is the absolute opposite of what they are going to do, and that UK debt, no matter which matrix you use (
real, index linked or percentage of GDP etc), has massively increased since the Tories came to power? Taxing profits of Shell, for example, who made billions in profit, but didn't pay any UK taxes, would appear to me to be a sensible measure. Cafe Nero, Amazon, Ebay, Apple... etc... etc... Why do they pay less tax than the workers they employ? More to the point, why do you think cutting the NHS and taxing workers is better than companies with huge profits?
Cap on bankers' bonuses to be scrapped has just been announced... ..."
sounds to me as though we've been down that road before"... ...indeed, and look how that turned out?