there is nothing wrong with the “Rafale” guys being passionate about the Rafale. It just makes them saucy.

Oh, language barrier, you do make me laugh sometimes 🙂

Starfish, there’s nothing particularly ‘left’ about a liberal immigration policy, or liberal thinking generally. To see how off-beam your thesis is, you only need to look at the elected governing parties over the period – for a Labour government to become electable it had to lose all sign of the left, while remaining liberal. I agree society had become more liberal over the past few decades, by the dictionary definition of liberal. However at the same time the ‘man in the street’ has -for example – gone from believing unions are necessary, through ‘necessary evil’ to just evil. That’s one of many measures by which we have plainly moved to the right.

That’s because British unions have a well founded reputation for being self serving opportunists. Regular striking by the likes of London Underground is not endearing. You only have to look across to Germany or Sweden to see how responsible employers and Unions can work in harmony. We won’t mention France…

By the look of it, Corbyns front bench is populated with London MP’s… but Abbott is probably the single worst politician in the UK, if you exclude Blair, and is utterly toxic. I’m actually starting to think we are witnessing the death throes of the Labour party in its current form.

Probably worth mentioning that much of Chinas advancement has been on the back of duplicating what others have done, including theft and espionage, and still they are unable to design and build a world class jet engine.

The Chinese have repeatedly shown that they do not respect copyrights and patents, you can hardly blame the US for being cautious.

A ‘living allowance’ would solve a lot of the admin issues, if it included a property purchase / rental allowance, though it would still exclude people from living in the capital, and would be a calamity with our current open door immigration policy.

As said before, the best solution would be fewer people.

1 million homes and 10 million fewer people would really sort things out 🙂

Indeed. Principled, Honest and in possession of an intellect. A man who values substance over appearance.

Is that the same Jeremy Corbyn who has opposed the European project for almost 4 decades, and voted against every major EU policy and treaty? Who then seemingly changed his mind overnight after gaining leadership?

He’s just as crooked, corrupt and dishonest as most of the Westminster bubble, he just presents himself differently.