01-07-2026, 11:48 AM
(01-07-2026, 11:04 AM)Derek Hardballs Wrote: Unless Labour do something about ‘illegal migration’ they will lose the next election whether those that want to hear this or not it doesn’t matter.
Closing hotels and then moving people into HMO’s in the community will make the problems worse for Labour. Other than that I have no idea what their answer is.
Mirror the well known Tory rag ran a poll just before Christmas and the issue is miles ahead of the NHS and Cost of Living.
There's nowhere else to put them. People complained about them being put in decommissioned army barracks, people complained about them being put in hotels, people complained about them being put on Stockholm Bibby.
The "war" on illegal migration is very, very similar to the war on drugs. If people are stupid enough to but Farage in charge, they'll swiftly find that he won't be able to do much differently either.
Boring things like increasing funding to Border control and speeding up application processing times would be of more benefit.

