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ECR: Historic Parliament vote marks the beginning of the era of returns
ECR Shadow Rapporteur Charlie
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MEP said:
Weimers said:
Weimers said:
The ECR Group hailed the European Parliament’s final approval of the new EU Returns Regulation as a historic victory for common sense and a turning point in Europe’s migration policy.
The result was met with applause and cheers from MEPs across the centre-right, conservative and right of the chamber, underlining the political significance of the vote. The new Regulation strengthens the return of third-country nationals who have no right to stay in the European Union. It introduces stronger cooperation obligations, allows detention for up to 24 months, and potentially longer under certain conditions, strengthens the mutual recognition of return decisions across the EU, and enables the use of return hubs in third countries.ECR Shadow Rapporteur Charlie
@Weimers
MEP said:
For the ECR Group, the vote marks the end of a failed approach in which return decisions were too often made but not enforced. The new framework gives Member States stronger tools to prevent absconding, deal with security risks and ensure that a return decision finally means return.
Weimers said:
The new regulation also strengthens Europe’s external migration policy by allowing return hubs in third countries and making cooperation on returns a central part of the EU’s approach to migration control.
Weimers said:
For the ECR Group, today’s vote shows that new majorities in Europe can correct the mistakes of the past and move from symbolic migration policy to enforceable results.
This all sounds quite Rwanda-y which our Supreme Court decided wasn’t on so without bothering to do any research myself unless maybe the Sweden game is awful I’d appreciate someone spoon feeding me the difference.
'Big return hubs in third countries' is exactly the same. It always amused me that Starmer binned Rwanda on Day One yet his beloved Arsenal is sponsored by 'Visit Rwanda', can't be that bad then...
Iran says it is closing the Strait of Hormuz and accuses the US and Israel of violating the ceasefire
Well that didn't last long did it, Trump will be crapping his diaper
Well that didn't last long did it, Trump will be crapping his diaper
Not at all. It just adds to the number of glorious wars he has managed to end. Doesn't matter if he ends the same one which he started over and over again. I'm not sure what this one has achieved. For such a brilliant mathematical genius I don't know where the thousands of points gains in stock market values are. The indices are public and updated by the minute. Yet they've missed that. Perhaps it was on Truth Social. Granted Iran's leaders have been wiped out but the only change is that they know exactly what to do in the future to defend themselves and they still have all that enriched uranium. The deal? Well it's the same one in principle that he tore up.Iran says it is closing the Strait of Hormuz and accuses the US and Israel of violating the ceasefire
Well that didn't last long did it, Trump will be crapping his diaper
Dread to think what he is going to do next in Ukraine. He chose his side and that ain't going too well for the duopoly. I'm glad to see that Europe as well as the UK seems to have got over their sycophancy of that narcisstic moron. Oh damn. That's my visa to go to the USA gone.
Iran says it is closing the Strait of Hormuz and accuses the US and Israel of violating the ceasefire
Well that didn't last long did it, Trump will be crapping his diaper
Well it was Israel, wasn't it? ****s.
Netanyahu needs constant war.
Starmer goneski…… after ****ing the country good & proper.
Should be jailed for treason, no pension, nothing.
Same with the Labor imbecile here in Oz.
Should be jailed for treason, no pension, nothing.
Same with the Labor imbecile here in Oz.
Scenarios
- Starmer walks with immediate effect, and who could blame him with the dogs abuse he’s getting from people who owe their jobs to him? Then we have a caretaker PM while Burnham is fitted for a new suit - David Lammy as PM anyone?
- Starmer resigns to a timetable which allows Burnham to takeover uncontested, never needing to put any meat on the bones of his platitudes, no known policies
- Starmer, or someone else, stands against Burnham. At least then there is some (low) level of scrutiny before this career shape shifter is crowned.
Once again the actual people of this country get no say. The old argument that you vote for a party not a PM no longer holds water as the leaders of all the parties continuously claim that they personally make the difference (otherwise changing leaders would be pointless), The role is becoming more Presidential all the time. Although Burnham is the actual Messiah of course. Let’s see if he has the balls to challenge for the job on Monday, or whether he’ll let Starmer or Streeting make the call for him.
- Starmer walks with immediate effect, and who could blame him with the dogs abuse he’s getting from people who owe their jobs to him? Then we have a caretaker PM while Burnham is fitted for a new suit - David Lammy as PM anyone?
- Starmer resigns to a timetable which allows Burnham to takeover uncontested, never needing to put any meat on the bones of his platitudes, no known policies
- Starmer, or someone else, stands against Burnham. At least then there is some (low) level of scrutiny before this career shape shifter is crowned.
Once again the actual people of this country get no say. The old argument that you vote for a party not a PM no longer holds water as the leaders of all the parties continuously claim that they personally make the difference (otherwise changing leaders would be pointless), The role is becoming more Presidential all the time. Although Burnham is the actual Messiah of course. Let’s see if he has the balls to challenge for the job on Monday, or whether he’ll let Starmer or Streeting make the call for him.
It would be right to call an election, which I’m sure he wouldn’t be in a hurry to do.
Could do without it both because they’re more and more of a farce each time and I’ll end up calling my local Hamas candidate’s door knocker a silly **** again but more importantly interest rates are moving in the right direction and the house I’m buying has had a big delay which is starting to look like it’ll work in my favour. Markets aren’t going to like the prospect of a minority government/weird coalition I’d imagine.
Presumably a John McDonnell or similarly ridiculous left candidate would throw their hat into the ring knowing they don’t have a chance and create more faff.
So the actual labour mps are such a **** bunch that only person worth saving them and the country is a wigan right wing protest vote winner
Whatever happens this government will shift to the left to placate the spineless self serving new MPs who owe their existence as MPs to Starmer's win and then did everything they could to scupper his leadership. Burnham's modest success in Manchester has been built on massive borrowing and some questionable partnerships, his cocky arrogance may soon prove as shallow as the way he and those allies who engineered this scenario showed total distain for the governance of the country...
Any other challengers would have to get 81 of the flock of sheep known as the Parliamentary Labour Party to follow them. There might be a couple of dozen who are ideologically hard wired to oppose or who genuinely think for themselves but the vast majority will be aiming not to upset the new ram in the field.
Many people, including me, voted for something more to the left of what we've had from Starmer, so that might be a positive. Having said that, there's no certainty that Burnham will bring that because no one really knows what he actually stands for, apart from 'Northern'. I don't really want to see a damaging leadership contest, but, as Stan says, it should at least flush out some policies.
The stark reality is that a very large proportion of MPs would not earn anything like £95k if they weren't MPs and therefore have every incentive to cling on
And Burnham is a classic example of a politician blowing in the wind to get what he wants rather than what the country needs