Politics Thread 7: Dishy Rishi's Cabinet of Horrors
- Lex-Man
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- Grumpy David
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- AKA: Cubeamania
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This is the sort of question that Corbyn always struggled to answer.
Moggy wrote:Blair's Labour won on a centrist platform and I guess it's a matter of opinion on whether they shifted left after the '97 election or if they stayed centrist. Right wingers will tell you they were crazy leftists, left wingers will tell you they were basically the same as Thatcher.
This post reminded me of this article:
Tony Blair urged 'radical' measures to cut asylum, archive papers reveal
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67827016
A detention camp on the Isle of Mull and breaking international law were among measures on migration presented to Tony Blair while prime minister, according to newly released files.
Papers from 2003, released by the National Archives, show Mr Blair was increasingly frustrated by the failure to deter people from coming to the UK.
He had called for more "radical" ideas.
Other suggestions presented to him included safe havens overseas for those whose asylum claims were rejected.
In a paper entitled "Asylum: the nuclear option", advisers even questioned whether the UK needed an asylum system at all, because refugees would already have passed through a safe country before reaching Britain's shores.
Only 20% of applicants were successful in getting asylum. Under the Tories it's 75%.
Tomous wrote:What the police are investigating her for is registering the wrong address as her main residence on the electoral register. I don't really know the implications of breaking electoral law like this but I suspect Labour are confident she hasnt and will be cleared.
I've seen suggestions that it's a time limited crime too so even if she's guilty, as more than 12 months have passed, there isn't the ability to charge Rayner for it.
Edit: Newsnight clip on the time limit: