Insanity set in some time ago mate. Thought you might have noticed. The house building stuff, tbf, is of real interest to me mate. The tories have tried to take green belt land for building local to me in the last 10 years and it would be a disaster. I have some suspicions labour are going to try and do the same. Time to chain myself to a gate or something.
Personally, I'll reserve judgement on that until it emerges how Labour plan to tackle the Immigration mess that the Tories have left us in. I've seen that they plan to crackdown on criminal gangs who are earning millions from trafficking, which is a start, but we need a stronger Border Force to patrol waters to escort small boats to short-term camps and a huge increase in Asylum assessors in order to process asylum seekers very quickly and ship out anyone not proven to be fleeing persecution. Anyone not fitting this criteria who want to live in this country should apply through the appropriate official channels (no pun intended). I'd rather the tax-payer was paying for extra assessors to process genuine asylum seekers than pay for hotels or people to guard illegal immigrants. Also, the RNLI is stretched enough without having to escort these small boats. These fantastic volunteers have other jobs of their own to do too.
Labour’s youngest MP 22 year old Sam Carling - tough life going to Barnard Castle School and Cambridge University.
Either people havent tried, or he isnt listening. Experience, in a lot of jobs, is important Sam. I daresay you might find you wished you had some when folk come and see you in your constituency. Good luck to the lad, but 22 is no age to be an MP. Biden could be his great grandad for gods sake
The Tory he beat was in his sixties, had been there for twenty years and recently had a majority of 25,000 ... ... his experience didn't help him keep his seat tbf. Sam is just being patronising to old people when he says no one has been able to explain. I bet he does the same when he's trying to get his grandad back on the internet
Aye, but maybe his experience in his 40s gave him the base to be there for 20 years. I might well be proven to be wrong, no real skin off my nose, but 22, and seemingly never held any full time job, I wonder. On the bright side, he went to the same secondary school as me and I am the most intelligent person on this board
I think it should be a prerequisite for MPs to have had a career in something else first. How can you make decisions about running the country if you've got no experience of the world? You should definitely have to have relevant experience to get a cabinet position.
To be fair he's not going to be running anything but his constituency, certainly not making decisions about the country. But at least he knows which country he's in and talking about. The man he's replacing was one of Boris's boys who he chose as NI Secretary ... ... iirc he thought Northern Ireland was in Great Britain which offended a lot of people. So far his replacement hasn't said anything anywhere near as stupid, so there's hope
What’s my mate been telling me about Tony Blair being on the news this morning, I missed it. He reckons he is head of a company with 650 consultants and have something to do with the Labour Party. Has he got this right or wrong?
The Tony Blair Institute I would imagine mate. Large advisory consultancy works globally. Dont know about Labour, but Wes Streeting was doing a talk at their big conference this morning and that was on some news I heard. Blair is definitely getting himself in the media a lot recently, perhaps unsurprising, but I wish he wasnt. Like most ex PMs he is like a bad smell that keeps finding ways to get in on the act.
