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Thursday 14 September 2023

All Roads Lead to Oligarchy



Even a Labour Government--supposing that in spite of the Press it did win through--what would be its fate? Separated from its base, imprisoned within those tradition-haunted walls, it would lose touch with the people, would become in its turn a mere oligarchy. If the people are ever to govern they must keep their hand firmly upon the machine; not remain content with pulling a lever and then being shown the door.

Jerome K. Jerome - All Roads Lead to Calvary (1919)


Asylum policies open up pre-election divisions between Labour and Tories

PM rules out ‘burden-sharing’ deal with EU as Keir Starmer says he is seeking closer cooperation with bloc

The Labour leader, who was holding talks at The Hague with officials from Europol and other bodies on Thursday, has suggested that an agreement to send back people who cross the Channel could involve accepting quotas of asylum seekers via the EU. In interviews, he would not be drawn on the number of people he would be willing to take in under the deal that Labour believes it can reach with the bloc.

6 comments:

Sam Vega said...

"he would not be drawn on the number of people he would be willing to take in under the deal that Labour believes it can reach with the bloc."

But, given that we know which way they are likely to vote once "assimilated", we can assume that it will be some degree greater than the numbers required to keep Labour in office.

DiscoveredJoys said...

Let me consult my crystal ball... I predict that if we had such an agreement with the EU we would be obliged to welcome a steady stream of 'quota' asylum seekers but would find that sending the others back would mysteriously not happen for all sorts of confected reasons.

The Jannie said...

I sincerely hope that Starmer's slack mouth and bandwaggoning prove to be yet another death blow for Liebour . . .

Doonhamer said...

And of course we would receive the best of the bunch, the pick of the crop, les crimes de is creme. Mais certainment.
Aye, right.
My spell checker / productive text changed my original word to "crimes".
A machine made Freudian slip. It seemed appropriate.

James Higham said...

Uniparty.

A K Haart said...

Sam - yes, that seems to be the aim and assumption since the days of Blair.

DJ - your crystal ball is spot on, the EU ratchet applies to everything.

Jannie - I hope so too, but people are so easily manipulated.

Doonhamer - and when even your spell checker tries to give you a hint, then we know it must be so.

James - which comes in different colours.