UK net #migration hits record high of 606,000

Very clever! Govt deliberately promoted that "at least 700k" notion ahead of publication so all the #nativists heave a sigh of relief... after being conned with #brexit they are being conned again

557k emigrated - so the actual number coming in was 1.2 million (!)

What proportion of 557k born & raised here is anyone's guess - most I'd guess but it will include a fair number of overseas students ending their UK residence

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-65669832

@seb321 @Gecko

Well I'm not sure what divide you refer to - between labour & the lost electors in 2019, or between the leadership & those activists who preferred the previous leader?

The most important thing is for voting #labour to be seen as a normal sensible thing & attract more votes - I doubt #labour can get #nativists who turned #kipper back, but #toriesOut have left a lot of space in the centre by turning #hardRight

If #labour don't win #nextGE there'll be a new leader for sure

@Gerz

Well to matter at all in any way it must get elected

The marginalised are a small % of electorate - #labour must get support of more than any other party to gain power - or it is not a political party but a talking shop.

I don't know what's required for that - I only know they did not win any of the last 4 elections

I too am disturbed by trimming to placate #nativists & statements about thatcher excluding reference to the ills she spread - but if that is the price of victory...

@Sc0tty @Melinda @nedhamson

The message needs to be repeated, again and a again

THEY ARE LYING

here are the facts......

we cannot recover those taken in and converted to #nativists by their #BS - but we can try to limit their influence on those around them by communicating the truth

@nedhamson

I think it is anti-furriner generally - possibly excepting wealthy white US/SAfrica/Canada/NZ/Australians of course-

I am not sure it is much more than a desperate attempt to engage #nativists despite the total failure of #brexit

All decent people abandoned voting for them a while back

@techbatty

I think #illegalMigrationBill is the perfect tag...... since this bill is indeed illegal under international treaty and is just there to boost #toriesOut support, not to actually do anything about the migrant "crisis" - after all if that were gone what would the #toriesOut have left to appeal to their post 2016 base of #farRight #nativists ?

economic competence?
stewardship of the NHS?
high standards in public office?
low taxes?

Not sure which is the most ludicrously unacheived

@TJ1001

Not sure I care what Rees-Mogg says about anything in private - his public pronouncements are utter tripe or worse - an extreme example of the #mediocre #arrogant #publicSchool product that shaped the dreadful #kipperTory mess we are all suffering under

As for #braverman - the worst kind of panderer to the base instincts of #nativists who would applaud #enochPowell and his #riversOfBlood given half a chance

@Rosietucker @JanPV @fencoul

Well - some #leave voters - many are #hardRight #nativists I would not waste a moment on

But aggressive disrespect of those who voted #leave in 2016 is folly - after all that was 48% of the electorate including many who may regret that decision and could be persuaded to help #GTTO

@OurFlagUK @wtfrank

#cameron is forever tainted by two bad things
- The #brexit referendum
- #austerity
No PM should ever hold a referendum on something they do not want to happen - it was #cowardice not to stand up to #farage and the far right #nativists

He so wanted to get a majority he lost any judgement he had - the entire #cameronToryEra has been dismal and an indictment of his #stewardship