Originally Posted by DanaC

I love the way you keep describing it as a socialist government. It very much isn't. It's authoritarian and centre right. I am in the party, not the government. The party was around long before Tony Blair. In my branch we're pretty left wing.

And, just to clarify. The immigration is not unbridled. The figures that get quoted are massively over-hyped. Asylum seekers find it very difficult to get leave to stay here, and the authorities have no compunction in putting them on a plane to somewhere dangerous if they can get away with it. If they can't trhey put them into a detention block. A lot of people aren't aware of just how awful it is in those places.