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I now want to look in more detail at Jenrick's nasty propaganda video. It starts with a few examples of cases to make people angry. But those examples are in fact irrelevant to the case he is trying to make. Jenrick has been an Immigration minister. He must know that the main problem with illegal or irregular migration is that when a person comes here and claims asylum, they may get it as a bona fide refugee in which case they can stay. That has nothing to do with the ECHR. It is a consequence of our domestic law and the Refugee Convention. He makes no suggestion we should leave it. For those whose application is refused the main problem is that it is very difficult to return them to their countries of origin which will often not co-operate particularly if documents have been destroyed. So leaving the ECHR will have minimal impact on the problem he claims to be addressing.

When Labour left power in 2010 treasury chief sec Liam Byrne left a note ‘there’s no money left’. UK debt was £1trillion. Westminster joke is that outgoing Conservative treasury chief sec Laura Trott didn’t leave a note because - debt £2.7trillion - Treasury couldn’t afford the paper

Clacton girl says it as she sees it. Fagash Farage offers Clacton nothing.

So where exactly is this 70,000 cut coming from. HMRC?  Already struggling to cope with the increase in self assessment taxpayers (1.2 million extra this year alone) and a tax gap that currently stands at £36b. A short thread. 1/6

@sturdyAlex And with a timetable for releasing the evidence controlled by the Daily Mail… to orchestrate maximum difficulty for Labour… The loud Tory theatre of howlingly hypocritical outrage helpfully megaphoned on all media channels on a loop.

@peterpsaint @VolunteerKHFT @Khftchildrensed @KHFTPaedPhysio @KHFTSurgery So sorry Peter. Max will be missed..

We've some sad news. Max, our friend and companion and my PAT partner, took ill yesterday and finally left on his last great adventure late last night. (1/2) @VolunteerKHFT @Khftchildrensed @KHFTPaedPhysio @KHFTSurgery

At #PMQs today, Rishi Sunak said "rough sleeping in this country is down by 35%…thanks to the efforts of this government". An official snapshot survey shows the number of people sleeping rough is down 35% since its 2017 peak. But it's up 74% since 2010. buff.ly/3NNaFwX

Man catastrophically fails GCSE biology.

👇🏻 #FridayFeeling: A message to the @Conservatives on behalf of the British people. #ThankYouTories 🙏🏻

Pat McFadden MP, Labour’s National Campaign Coordinator: 'A few weeks ago Rishi Sunak said David Cameron was part of a failed status quo, now he’s bringing him back as his life raft. This puts to bed the PM’s laughable claim to offer change from 13 years of Tory failure.'

Great news. After just over a week @BylineTimes is 2/3rds of the way towards our target to return to WH Smith on a regular basis. And we're confirmed for 235 Sainsburys stores next month. Meanwhile here's @Bonn1eGreer on the importance of #buyarealpaper

Baroness Warsi(Tory) - "Suella Braverman is dangerous & divisive... she doesn't fix things, she breaks things... & some of my colleagues, in government, project as patriot, but they're indeed arsonists... they pit community against community.. " #politicshub

Ask yourself this, do our political representatives show empathy? What concerns do you have in your life that politicians ignore with their endless culture wars and distracting rhetoric? The Empathy Gap and a Politics of Extremes – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2023/11/03/the…

Repeating misleading claims can destroy trust in our democracy. We wrote to @rishisunak and @greghands asking them to show leadership in not spreading misleading claims, including about other political parties 👇fullfact.org/media/uploads/… #HereToLeadNotMislead

Thank you @GwynneMP for raising the #BetterBonesCampaign in Parliament today. Universal, quality FLS would save the NHS £665M and prevent 31,000 hip fractures. It’s time for the government to act.

@Haggis_UK Quite right. At least he’s not lying!

Anna Jones: Why is Keir Starmer not reversing the govt's plans to abandon that leg of HS2? Pat McFadden: "If you're an opposition party... you have to take the world you inherit... you can't take the world you wished to inherit... it's not as simple as pushing a rewind button"

'Who put this together? Was this a primary school project?' @NickFerrariLBC can't help but chuckle as he lists a series of errors with Rishi Sunak's 'masterstroke' Network North plans, days after the PM scrapped HS2's northern leg...

Each new tweet I see from the Tory conference is more mental and outrageous than the previous one. Here's a compressed list: 1. Nigel Farage and Priti Patel dancing together. (The Tory party is now just UKIP in blue.) 2. Lee Anderson asking why anyone would want to go to Bradford. (I'm sure people from Brandford will be thrilled) 3. Sky's Sophy Ridge reads out part of the Energy Secretary's speech where she says, 'there's no wonder Labour seem so relaxed about taxing meat...' - and asks: "You didn't write that, did you? They're not proposing a meat tax?" (Labour never proposed this. It's a total lie.) 4. Michael Gove lying about Brexit delivering £350M a week for the NHS. 5. Jacob Rees-Mogg seemingly batting for hormone-injected beef from Australia instead of backing British farmers. He said: "I want cheaper food. I want hormone injected beef from Australia. I've eaten beef in Australia, it's delicious. There's nothing wrong with it." 6. The UK's worst Prime Minister in history, Liz Truss, demanding the biggest audience of the conference so far. 7. 20mph speed limits are a war on motorists and will be stopped. (Despite the evidence showing that it saves lives.) 8. Not a few bottles, or a couple of cases, but a full pallet load of expensive champagne is offloaded at conference. 9. Priti Patel describes GB News as 'The most successful, most dynamic, no-nonsense news station, and the defenders of free speech'. This is despite the station being under investigation for multiple potential broadcast breaches by OFCOM. 10. Tory MP Tom Hunt says he's "not xenophobic", but his town centre feels like "a foreign country", which there's no "shared values". 11. Rishi Sunak refuses to rule out Nigel Farage joining the Tory Party

Has multiculturalism failed in Spanish resorts? Should all the English pubs & Pie & Mash shops be shutdown and all the migrant Brits be deported back to the UK?😉 #bbcqt #ToriesOut448 #GeneralElectionNow #RejoinEU