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a-mart said:
What do you mean legit?

I've been to many vacations in Europe and the young English ladies are by far the trahiest I've even seen
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Eranys said:
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Laying out the welcome mat for Riz, eh?
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Apparently net immigration is way down. How true? IDK. I'm sure that doesn't measure illegal immigration and its effects though. I'm not a proponent of mass immigration. I'm also not an expert in it and I don't have any good solutions to it either. Japan is experiencing a wave of totally necessary immigration and it seems to be going well. I hope they don't put immigrants in specific places or pander to their language and customs TBH. These seem like recipes for resentment, hatred and failure to assimilate.
Here is a summary of what the current Labour government would list as their achievements. It is copied and pasted from an artice in the Guardian. Yes, UK kinda sucks and so does every administration we've had since Michael Foot, but I don't think this government is all bad. I think they at least have/had a better shot at solving the massive problems facing the UK than those completely corrupt and devoid of any desire to do better Tories FS.
In fact, this Labour government has ruined my pension, but I kind of get why so I'm not madd about it. It is the biggest portion of public welfare spending by miles and so who would you want to take money from first? Foreign residents who have no intention of returning seem a good idea. I also believe this gov't wants to partly privatise the NHS, which is necessary. It's failing. I am not kken on the way they caved in to striking doctors and overpaid train workers though. Mainly the train workers. That was nuts to me, but I guess they needed to buy time whilst they figure out how to replace those ingrates with AI.

recap: in under two years Labour has ended the two-child benefit cap, projected to take 450,000 children out of poverty, provided breakfast clubsfor primary schoolchildren in England, made 500,000 extra children in England eligible for free school meals. Free nurseries liberate families to work, with a crucial early years educational boost and up to 1,000 new Best Start family hubs in England. The young have come first, with arts back on the curriculum, a lost youth service restarted with 250 centres to be built or refurbished in England – and new further education colleges with extra construction courses and apprenticeships. This is Labour turf; it’s not nearly enough, but it’s a start at tackling neglected training for the half of young people in England not bound for higher education. British Steel is set to be nationalised, alongside train operators, with rail fares frozen in England and pay-per-mile road pricing for all electric cars by 2028.

Business and its press protest at a real living wage raised by 6.7%, plus a 4.1% increase for the minimum wage, shifting power towards working rights that ends zero-hours contracts and beefs up union recruiting. Rightly the national insurance increase to raise £25bn fell on employers not workers. The Renters’ Rights Act protects 11 million people in England from no-fault evictions. Net migration plummeted by 78%. Green energy surges aheadwith priority investment. Today’s NHS waiting-list figures show the fastest fall in 16 years, aided by more than 2,000 extra GPs and 170 new community diagnostic centres.

No space here for everything, but Starmer’s government has done the good that only Labour governments do. Enough? No, but it’s dangerously frivolous to dismiss its advances. How unjust that only 26% feel that Starmer has brought any change compared to its Conservative predecessors; 60% feel there’s been little to no change. That’s plain wrong.
 
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