Executive member of the Union of Shop, Distribution and Allies Workers John Barstow has written to the Financial Times calling to “restrict Sunday online trading”, bringing online sector deliveries under the Sunday trading laws. No more Amazon or Ocado orders outside the hours of 10am and 4pm…
Barstow is inevitably also a Labour ally – just yesterday Starmer delivered a speech to his union. No doubt Barstow will be pushing these changes to bring Britain back to the Victorian era if/when Starmer gets the keys to Downing Street. You’re known by the company you keep…
- Kirsten Oswald (SNP)
- Lisa Cameron (Con)
- Alistair Carmichael (LibDem)
- Jonathan Gullis (Con)
- Bill Wiggin (Con)
- Andrew Selous (Con)
- Deidre Brock (SNP)
- Peter Aldous (Con)
- Neil Hudson (Con)
- Margaret Greenwood (Lab)
- Carla Lockhart (DUP)
- Mark Pawsey (Con)
- Gareth Thomas (Lab)
- Desmond Swayne (Con)
The BBC brought human rights lawyer Jacqueline McKenzie onto the Today Programme this morning to chat about the first voluntary Rwanda removal this week. What the BBC seems to have forgotten to mention is that McKenzie also has a role advising the Labour Party as a member of their “Race Equality Taskforce”. She spends her time on Twitter urging failed asylum seekers not to respond to the Home Office if they are contacted about voluntary departure, as well as accusing the Tory Party of launching “racist pile-ons” against her. Would have been useful for the BBC to mention…
Apart from vaguely rubbishing the story, she also failed to answer the fundamental question involved:
“What should happen to people who are here who have exhausted every effort to stay here, who are not here legally because they have failed to gain the right to be here legally?“
McKenzie eventually argued we shouldn’t worry about it because a “very small number” don’t get asylum and that “the UK doesn’t have a major problem with asylum seekers” – instead this country simply does not want to “do its bit“. Is that soon to be the official Labour position?
As voters prepare to head to the polls for tomorrow’s local elections, many Tories are fearing total wipeout. Though a latest poll by Savanta shows all may not be lost yet for Tory London Mayoral candidate Susan Hall…
The final poll shows Sadiq Khan has the smallest lead over Susan Hall since the campaigns started, putting the Labour mayor on 42% and Tory candidate 32% – just ten percentage points ahead. Late night Suzie’s push against Lame London and ULEZ seems to be hitting home…
The Sun revealed that on monday the first Rwanda removal was carried out with a failed asylum seeker agreeing to fly to Kigali voluntarily. Under a scheme parallel to forced deportation he was given £3,000 and a seat on a commercial jet…
Some pundits are missing the point, which is that voluntary removals dispel the trendy idea that Rwanda is some sort of Black Hole of Calcutta – it’s just not Britain. Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch is on the airwaves this morning touting this as a success and points out that the deterrent effect is working already, as seen in the panicked reaction of the Irish government to an increase it is experiencing in Rwanda-cautious migrants. Meanwhile, “senior labour figures” want to keep the Rwanda plan going…
Guido had to do another one before the locals this week. Councillor Gavin Elsey quit the Peterborough City Council Conservative Group this time last year with others to join an independent group called Peterborough First and take over the council. Since defecting it looks like Elsey has enjoyed a bit more free time. To be fair, he is only the cabinet member for the Environment and Climate Change…
One look at his list of liked tweets gives you a pretty good sense of his policy interests. Were the Tories not “mature” enough?
