13 articles
• via the Guardian
Labour shifts asylum seekers from hotels to costlier barracks, saving £65m on paper while 30,000 remain housed and backlogs persist across parties. This reveals systemic failure to resolve inflows or clear queues.
• via BBC News
Shabana Mahmood halts study visas for Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar, and Sudan due to rampant abuse, where 95% of Afghans switch to asylum. This admits years of cross-party failures in border control amid rising small boat arrivals.
• via Sky News
UK unemployment reached 5.2% in December, up from 4.1% at Labour's 2024 entry, as new worker rights and NI rises prompt hiring cuts. Youth joblessness hit 14%, signaling policy-driven market tightening.
• via the Guardian
Labour secretary Steve Reed flags four-day weeks as failure indicators for English councils, overriding local trials amid productivity crisis. Central control persists across parties as bankruptcies mount.
• via The Telegraph
Labour's £20m school interventions target boy misogyny amid 40% male NEET rise, 87% youth homicide victims male, and 2.5m fatherless homes. Policies miss family roots, perpetuating cross-party youth decline.
• via Liverpool Echo
Motability's new investigations unit targets vehicle misuse amid stable rates and scheme growth. Labour tax hikes add £400 to costs, exposing welfare expansion that outruns controls across governments. Taxpayers fund unchecked vulnerabilities.
• via mattgoodwin.org
Labour touts net migration fall to 204k, but 109k more Britons left than returned, matched by asylum claims. Non-EU dominance and failed deportations signal ongoing demographic swap across governments.
• via The Telegraph
Government shields expansive Islamophobia definition from critics under 'safe space' pretext, exposing curated consultations that risk free speech as blasphemy curbs. EHRC warns of legal clashes amid exclusions of key watchdogs.
• via The Telegraph
Rachel Reeves cited a non-existent black hole for £26bn tax hikes, ignoring inflation revenues to boost welfare to 25% of budget. This inverts incentives, drives young emigration, and locks in high-tax stagnation.
• via The Telegraph
Leeds council's grey belt plans contradict Labour's preservation pledge, targeting 30,000 hectares for development while housing starts lag far behind 300,000 annual targets. This reveals recurring policy failures across parties in balancing growth and green space.
• via LBC
Home Secretary Mahmood's ECHR tweaks and deportation drives yield incremental gains, but surging Channel crossings and legal limits expose enduring border control failures across governments.
• via Sky News
The government's £1 billion approval for NHS redundancies allows budget overspending now, promising future efficiencies that past reforms failed to deliver. This structural tweak exposes chronic underfunding and cross-party neglect of frontline needs.
• via The Guardian
England builds just 10,000 social rent homes yearly, far below needs, as Labour's ambitious targets collide with funding cuts, labor shortages, and planning delays inherited across governments. This exposes systemic housing failure driving inequality and eroding public trust.