Keir Starmer says “read my lips: I will cut immigration” as he unveils crackdown

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1. It’s a pretty blatant lie, but it’s also an obvious lie when the Tories say the same thing.

2. I’m all for it provided we prioritise skilled immigrants which are culturally similar to better aid and increase social adhesion.

   Something that the tories, despite their mantra, have 14 years to figure out and still fumbled.

3. “Iv gotta zombie knife an ain’t afraid to use it” said sir keir.

4. It’s insultingly obvious at this point that the same people are pulling the strings whoever’s in government. Crack pot, I know.

   I’d rather have Labour – but none of them are really working for us.

5. So that’s legal immigration sorted, what about the illegal sort.

6. Can’t trust a thing he says. Picking between Labour and Tories really is a case of lesser of two evils. So bleak

7. The coalition technically cut immigration, but it didn’t matter did it? We CATEGORICALLY do ***not*** have the houses or infrastructure to keep gaining anything more than a few thousand a year, it simply is not physically possible without damaging what little remains of public services.

8. Why not, should be pretty easy to do if the record immigration party leaves power.

9. Can’t wait to deface my ballot and sleep well knowing I wasn’t forced to pick between Coke and Pepsi.

10. I’ve just come back from Belgium. They have a lot of immigrants too. But many aim to come to the UK purely because we have no ID card system than limits access to healthcare, work, benefits etc.

    The common knowledge amongst immigrants is that they can disappear in to the crowd once they are here. 

11. Why put so much emphasis on it when he knows it’s bollocks and the opposition will spend the next four years using it to attack him?

12. He won’t. Reeve’s whole economic platform is based around deregulation and chasing economic growth at any cost – supply side reform and neoliberalism – immigration and cheap labour is essential for that from their perspective. Love or hate immigration it does increase GDP and the size of the economy – which is all these people really care about.

13. Good luck with cutting immigration in a globalised economy lmao.

14. Problem is they mostly dont integrate. Come here and learn the language and the British way or go home

15. Both parties are fucking useless let’s be honest, dismantle parliament.

16. As usual, they’ll come out with any old bollocks to win a vote.

17. I can’t read lips, I also can’t swim in a river without catching d&v. I know which issue I’d rather he pledged to sort out.

18. What the need to have is common cultural ideals. Work, speak the language, respect women. That is not what’s happening with a huge percentage of the immigrants 

19. Anyone who believes this is living in cloud cuckoo land