Comments by "Guinness" (@GuinessOriginal) on "Watch again: Keir Starmer gives speech on immigration dependency at the CBI annual conference" video.

  1. Who’s been in charge of immigration for the last 12 years? Highest immigration under Labour was 160 000 a year. By 2016 the Conservatives had let it rise to 350 000 a year, and last year they issued 1.6m visas, the largest number of which went to Indians.
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  2.  @QUEEG500_  Highest immigration under Labour was 160 000 a year. By 2016 the Conservatives had let it rise to 350 000 a year, and last year they issued 1.6m visas, the largest number of which went to Indians.
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  3. Highest immigration under Labour was 160 000 a year. By 2016 the Conservatives had let it rise to 350 000 a year, and last year they issued 1.6m visas, the largest number of which went to Indians.
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  4. So keep the wef oligarch and one of the uks richest men who was a citizen of the USA until last year rich sunak in charge instead? The guy who’s presided over the highest inflation in 50 years and had just put our taxes up to the highest taxation level in 90 years, whilst forcing austerity into us and flushing the country down the toilet?
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  5. Highest immigration under Labour was 160 000 a year. By 2016 the Conservatives had let it rise to 350 000 a year, and last year they issued 1.6m visas, the largest number of which went to Indians.
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  6.  @levi5073  absolute nonsense. Since brexit it’s increased 145% in the last 12 months. Why did 3 successive conservatives governments pledge to cut it below 100 000 a year?
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  7. 12 years of Conservatives repeatedly increasing immigration every year has nothing to do with it of course.
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  8.  @garyspruce7736  Here are some facts for you, feel free to check them. They’re from immigration statistics on the Home Office website. Net immigration under Labour rose from around 48,000 a year in 1997 to almost 140,000 a year in 2008. The most recent significant increase we’d seen until recently was between 2013 and 2014 when it increased by around 50%, from 209,000 to 313,000. That rose to 327,000 for the year ending March 2016. The Conservatives pledged at the 2010, 2015 and 2017 elections to slash net migration to below 100,000, but a study of regular updates from the Office for National Statistics outlines the extent to which the vow has been ignored. More than 1.6 million visas and permits were granted by the Government in the year ending March 2022, the Home Office has said. The figure marks a 145% increase on the previous 12 months to March 2021, according to the immigration statistics published on Thursday May 26 2022. By far the biggest recipients of these visas were Indians, during the covid lockdown at a time when the Indian variant was rampant in India. Needless to say, none of these immigrants were subject to quarantine while we were locked in our homes.
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  9.  @garyspruce7736  sorry, explain to me exactly how 1.6m visas, an increase of 145% in 12 months, does not represent a huge increase in immigration? Assuming your figure is correct, immigration has still only increased further under the Conservatives and they have presided over the biggest yearly increases in immigration and net migration we have ever seen, contrary to their 3 election pledges to do the opposite. But the Conservatives are still the party of low immigration? No, they’re the party of higher immigration than Labour, and that’s a fact
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  10.  @garyspruce7736  Brexit under Boris and sunak had meant an increase in immigration, specifically a huge increase in non EU immigration, from India specifically. I wonder why that could be
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  11. So keep the wef oligarch and one of the uks richest men who was a citizen of the USA until last year rich sunak in charge instead? The guy who’s presided over the highest inflation in 50 years and had just put our taxes up to the highest taxation level in 90 years, whilst forcing austerity into us and flushing the country down the toilet?
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  12.  @WhoDaresWinso7  the masses rejected the leader that was presented by the corporate media as a terrorist loving communist anti semite. He didn’t help himself by not nailing his colours to the brexit mast and Labour didn’t hero themselves by being so openly divided on the issue but none of that distracts from the fact the internationally owned corporate media did a proper hatchet job on him
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  13.  @casualfocus1371  ditto
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  14.  @The_passiveObserver  inflation, taxes, mortgage rates, child poverty and inequality all went down consistently under the last Labour government, whilst the economy, real wages, living standards, the nhs and education all improved. The last 12 years have constantly reversed that and we’re not worse off than we were in the 1970s. And people are seriously advocating keeping this government? Unbelievable
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