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Brexit Checks are not needed
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The Tories have been wrong lying about so much...
The Home Office has been accused of submitting “woeful” budget figures under successive Conservative ministers – which officials knew understated the ballooning cost of asylum and illegal immigration spending. In a report partially vindicating Rachel Reeves’s claim that the new Labour government inherited a far worse financial situation than initially thought, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) thinktank suggested the Home Office had repeatedly lowballed its budget estimates. Analysing three years of financial records, the IFS found the Home Office had told parliament at the start of each year it needed an average £110m to cover the UK’s asylum, border, visa and passport operations. However, it ended up spending vastly more: an average of £2.6bn a year.
A Labour spokesperson said the report laid bare the state of the new government’s inheritance:
“Instead of reflecting the real costs of the asylum system in Home Office budgets, the previous Conservative government covered up the true extent of the crisis and its spending implications, leaving behind an unforgivable inheritance with nothing to show for it except record high small boat crossings in the first half of the year,” they said. “Every time the Conservatives faced a difficult problem, they failed to be honest. They knowingly overspent on departmental budgets, covered it up, called an election and ran away from the problem, leaving a £22bn black hole in the country’s finances for Labour to clean up.”
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The Home Office has been accused of submitting “woeful” budget figures under successive Conservative ministers – which officials knew understated the ballooning cost of asylum and illegal immigration spending. In a report partially vindicating Rachel Reeves’s claim that the new Labour government inherited a far worse financial situation than initially thought, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) thinktank suggested the Home Office had repeatedly lowballed its budget estimates. Analysing three years of financial records, the IFS found the Home Office had told parliament at the start of each year it needed an average £110m to cover the UK’s asylum, border, visa and passport operations. However, it ended up spending vastly more: an average of £2.6bn a year.
A Labour spokesperson said the report laid bare the state of the new government’s inheritance:
“Instead of reflecting the real costs of the asylum system in Home Office budgets, the previous Conservative government covered up the true extent of the crisis and its spending implications, leaving behind an unforgivable inheritance with nothing to show for it except record high small boat crossings in the first half of the year,” they said. “Every time the Conservatives faced a difficult problem, they failed to be honest. They knowingly overspent on departmental budgets, covered it up, called an election and ran away from the problem, leaving a £22bn black hole in the country’s finances for Labour to clean up.”
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Starmer has started the process of getting a better relationship with the EU that was wrecked by stupid brexiteers...
Who still btw haven't come up with a single benefit from leaving the EU!
This first step is the start of the journey to rejoining...
And when it happens, brexiteers (the few that are left) will have to 'get over it'....
Although they'll probably stumble given their age
Who still btw haven't come up with a single benefit from leaving the EU!
This first step is the start of the journey to rejoining...
And when it happens, brexiteers (the few that are left) will have to 'get over it'....
Although they'll probably stumble given their age
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Not really. It's more of a look at what can be done in certain areas. Next visit is France.
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I can't see the UK re-joining for at least several decades, maybe never. So many bridges were burnt.Starmer has started the process of getting a better relationship with the EU that was wrecked by stupid brexiteers...
Who still btw haven't come up with a single benefit from leaving the EU!
This first step is the start of the journey to rejoining...
And when it happens, brexiteers (the few that are left) will have to 'get over it'....
Although they'll probably stumble given their age
But the doesn't prevent nor restrict better relationships on multiple fronts and issues.
If you mean that you'll never live to see it happening, I agree.
It has always been expected that it will take a generation before UK is ready to play a significant part in Europe, and before the community will be willing to accept and trust UK again. The shambles and costs created by the Brexers will need time and money to repair.
The Brexer numbers have already dwindled to irrelevance, and pro-Europe sentiment among the young is very strong, but there is a lot of mess to clear up.
In the meantime, somebody has to try to limit the damage.
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How can anybody let it go.
Despite the 3 word slogans, Brexits Not Done.
Strange how the best response, is always attacking the comment, never by challenging it with benefits.
Despite the 3 word slogans, Brexits Not Done.
Strange how the best response, is always attacking the comment, never by challenging it with benefits.
Nope...
With the younger generations realising more and more what the old (dying out) gits did to their life choices, then the politicians whatever the party they belong to will have to take notice...
In order to get into/stay in power!
Things can change very quickly, and I expect a proposal for a new EU referendum before the end of this decade
It wouldn't be a referendum to rejoin. That is not in our power.
It might be a referendum "do you want UK to be less hostile and try to build a co-operative and mutually beneficial relationship with our European neighbours"
Which is called "A question expecting the answer Yes."
Except from the dwindling number of rabid Brextremists.
It might be a referendum "do you want UK to be less hostile and try to build a co-operative and mutually beneficial relationship with our European neighbours"
Which is called "A question expecting the answer Yes."
Except from the dwindling number of rabid Brextremists.
Nobody will see it. I won’t live to see the end of the world either. Maybe….
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If that’s true, it’s a good job we were around and prepared to get off our arses and vote when it counted.
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When it's over maybe. When we know EXACTLY what brexit is.
As of now, more cost (not benefit).....
The government is to provide £10.5m worth of funding to prepare for new EU border checks this autumn.
The Port of Dover, Eurotunnel at Folkestone and Eurostar at St Pancras will receive financial aid to help reduce queues for travellers.
From the autumn, travellers from the UK and other non-EU countries will have to go through a new digital border system called the Entry/Exit System (EES), which is being brought in by the EU.
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