Their isn’t much difference between Tories and Labour 8 months off two years in power for them.
I genuinely think the main two are in big trouble. It looks neck and neck between Reform and Labour to be the opposition in Edinburgh come the spring.
There is still an affect on us due to some of the major things not being devolved so it would be great if England didn’t vote for them still. 
Government looking to Denmark for inspiration…sounds like a good idea to deal with the issue. @Cristo - any thoughts?
Absolutely great if the popularity of reform puts pressure on labour to head more in that direction.
Lift and shift the rules from Denmark and the enforcement from Poland and you will have a good system that will bring the party a lot of voters.
Not really sure what the ‘Denmark approach’ would solve? Tough on refugees sure. But the ‘Boriswave’ for example is already here.
What Denmark did right from I’ve read was not fuck about when this issue became a problem. However in the UK, this was a ‘problem’ in 2010 (Arguably before) that the Tories were meant to solve but made it all worse for 14 years.
I think the psychology of a Anti-immigration voter is not well understood. They want people out. Only one party this far is offering that. Unless Labour is going to do that, they’re not winning this issue.
Just reading it, it’s already stated Mahmood doesn’t want to go as far as the Danish did. Well half-arsing it worked so well for us up till this point, why not some more.
It reminds me of when Arsenal first started rebuilding and actually thought out a strategy to bring in the right young players after careful scouting and then Chelsea just started buying all the young players they could get their hands on and expected the same result.
Copying the headlines of someone else’s strategy isn’t going to work.
It sounds like it could work!
We could start by processing asylum claims a lot quicker, rather than making them sit in a hotel for years unable to work.
Getting through that backlog, and lowering the numbers of people awaiting a decision is one of the few things Labour have actually done well.
I think it’s too little too late, but let’s see. Denmark started taking serious action 10 years ago.
They have to follow through on the policies they implement, if they half-arse it it just won’t matter.
The point on integration is interesting, do people now regard ethnic enclaves as a sign of failed integration?
The fact that alot of these enclave are in Labour areas, means there isn’t going to be any meaningful reform or harsh measures.
When those enclaves have higher rates of crime, unemployment, dependence on benefits, lack of linguistic ability, etc. then yes I do.
Areas like Voldsmose, Gellerup and Nordvest are essentially parallel societies where Danish values, culture, and language aren’t the norm - it even sometimes happens that ambulances and fire trucks need police escorts (which does not happen anywhere else).
Nørrebro was a famously progressive neighbourhood populated by hippies and the gay movement which opened its doors to immigrants in the 90s. In 2010 Pride had to reroute itself around Nørrebro because the immigrants there attacked the parade with rocks and urine filled balloons, and not that many years ago police had to ask gay and straight couples not to commit acts of PDA in the neighbourhood lest they provoke the inhabits to violence (which happened a few times). Police also warned Jews to not wear items identifying their religion.
So yes, in Denmark ethnic enclaves are usually symbolic of failed integration. Specific ethnicities that adhere to a monotheistic religion from the Middle East. These issues are not present in the Vietnamese, Thai, Polish etc. communities.
eh? what do they do?
The thing with ‘integration’ is it has always been an abstract idea. The goalposts has always shifted on it is since there’s never been clear cut idea nor has there ever been a real attempt to enforce it. (by the state or otherwise). I mean if I recall under Boris Johnson’s bollocks immigration points system you could get a visa without speaking English. People have always been left to their devices to find their way. The results are predictable, comfort, safety in numbers, familiarity.
Personally, I have no problem with low immigration but I would hate something like the parallel societies law. I don’t even know where you’d begin practically. First of all Britain is stupid as hell with definitions like BAME where Caribbeans and Africans are put together even though we’re vastly different people. (Sorry Mr. Johnson, you gotta go. The threshold of Babatunde’s and Kofi’s are far too high) where you moving them too? We have literal chaos over asylum seeker hotels. People don’t like that shit. They’ll like a bunch of foreign looking people in higher numbers being moved in even less.
Two more Tory donors are out of the BBC. Pepsi Tim was never up to the job.
Another reminder of what it means to have successive governments that don’t care about their people.
Not expecting anyone to watch a 45 minute documentary but you don’t need to read or watch much to see how badly children like this are failed.
Cutting these inadequate services are the “tough but fair” decisions Labour talk about.
‘Oh look china can build things so much quicker and more cheaply than the west’
Moment newly opened bridge partially collapses in China - BBC News
Lucky nobody died because it was already showing signs of being fucked the day earlier. Great work china 
Tbf there was a huge mountain slide the bridge was built into. Issue was more why build it there.
The reason it was closed was because they could see the mountain face was collapsing not the bridge.
Kind of general news but it’s 10 years this weekend that 3 huge events happened.
To mark the events, I took my wife to see one of her favourite new bands in London, sticking two fingers up at those who committed a massacre at a music venue, sticking two fingers up at my illness and also reminding ourselves that the best way to deal with bad memories is to make good new ones.
Next weekend Colchester pays tribute to Nick and all those killed in Paris on that terrible night with a night of music in 10 different venues.
https://x.com/patrickchristys/status/1993310311764705407?s=46&t=AQdkextERIVAYqTVMJ3WVw
Absolute madness.
The sheer level of entitlement to attack a police officer with a sledgehammer.
Scumbags