UK PM sets out immigration plans as Conservatives hit two-year poll high

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UK PM sets out immigration plans as Conservatives hit two-year poll high

By Kylie MacLellan

 

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks as he visits an electric car plant in Warwickshire, Britain November 13, 2019. REUTERS/Rebecca Naden/File Photo

 

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson set out plans on Sunday to end preferential treatment for European Union migrants, as opinion polls showed his Conservative Party has the highest level of support since 2017 ahead of next month's election.

 

The Dec. 12 election was called to break the deadlock over Brexit, more than three years after the country voted narrowly in favour of leaving the EU in a 2016 referendum.

 

Johnson hopes to win a majority to push through the last-minute Brexit deal he struck with the EU last month, while opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has promised to renegotiate the exit agreement and then hold another referendum.

 

Setting out their post-Brexit immigration policy, the Conservatives said they would treat EU and non-EU migrants the same from January 2021, including a five-year wait to obtain welfare payments and a surcharge to access health services.

 

"As we come out of the EU we have a new opportunity for fairness and to make sure all those who come here are treated the same. We will make our immigration system equal," Johnson said in a statement.

 

The Conservatives lead Labour by 10-17 percentage points, four polls late on Saturday showed.

 

Both parties are expected to publish their election manifestos this week, setting out in detail their full set of policies for government. Corbyn and Johnson are due to go head-to-head in their first televised debate on Tuesday evening.

 

Johnson failed to get his deal approved by parliament ahead of a Oct. 31 Brexit deadline in part due to a rebellion by some of his own lawmakers over the speed at which he proposed to push through the legislation.

 

In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, Johnson said all Conservative election candidates had pledged to vote for his Brexit deal in parliament. The Mail on Sunday reported Johnson plans a Brexit debate in parliament on Dec. 23 if he wins.

 

"If we get a majority Conservative government we can deliver and there will be no more wrangling or dither or delay," Johnson told the Sunday Telegraph.

Asked about whether Labour would continue freedom of movement after Brexit, party leader Corbyn told BBC TV there would be "a great deal of movement" but the detail of their planned immigration policy would be in the election manifesto.

 

Corbyn also said he would not form a coalition government if his party fails to secure a majority in parliament.

 

Asked about possible demands for a Scottish independence referendum in return for the support of the Scottish National Party (SNP) if Labour is short of a majority, Corbyn told BBC TV: "We are not doing deals with anybody."

 

"We are not forming coalition governments, we will put forward the programme on which we will have been elected," he said. "The SNP will have a choice, do they want to put Boris Johnson back in ... or are they going to say a Labour government will deliver for Scotland."

 

(Reporting by Kylie MacLellan. Editing by Jane Merriman)

 

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-11-18

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[GeorgeCross]

go Boris!

[ivor bigun]

Labour are toast ,mind you with the likes of Corbyn at the helm and Abbot doing the finances ,who would vote for them ? shame they used to be a good party originally .

[edwinchester]

NHS waiting lists at all time highs, millions of people in poverty, record numbers using food banks and sleeping rough, a lying, cheating, conniving clown as PM, International reputation at rock bottom, covering up electoral fraud, buying peerages and Russian electoral meddling etc etc

How anyone with a conscience can vote for these <deleted> is beyond me.

[steve187]

1 hour ago, edwinchester said:

NHS waiting lists at all time highs, millions of people in poverty, record numbers using food banks and sleeping rough, a lying, cheating, conniving clown as PM, International reputation at rock bottom, covering up electoral fraud, buying peerages and Russian electoral meddling etc etc

How anyone with a conscience can vote for these <deleted> is beyond me.

links to all this doom and gloom would be nice, esp the etc.etc.

[edwinchester]

48 minutes ago, steve187 said:

links to all this doom and gloom would be nice, esp the etc.etc.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/11/14/ae-waiting-times-now-worst-since-records-began/

 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jul/29/uk-deep-poverty-study-austerity

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/food-banks-parcels-poverty-trussell-trust-record-a9200471.html

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Kingdom

 

https://time.com/5717670/uk-russian-interference-brexit-delayed/

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-news-live-today-general-election-brexit-latest-labour-conservatives-a9206006.html

[evadgib]

Jennifer Acurri is in the news again after appearing on ITV last night and again this morning.

 

Does Joe Public not realise that all calls to BJ/no10 pass through GCHQ which perhaps explains why he hasn't taken her calls since this nonsense broke?

[Orton Rd]

6 hours ago, ivor bigun said:

Labour are toast ,mind you with the likes of Corbyn at the helm and Abbot doing the finances ,who would vote for them ? shame they used to be a good party originally .

Abbottpotomous says Labour will have have a 5 million majority after the Dec 15th election ????

[Thingamabob]

6 hours ago, edwinchester said:

NHS waiting lists at all time highs, millions of people in poverty, record numbers using food banks and sleeping rough, a lying, cheating, conniving clown as PM, International reputation at rock bottom, covering up electoral fraud, buying peerages and Russian electoral meddling etc etc

How anyone with a conscience can vote for these <deleted> is beyond me.

Because they're not so dumb as to want a Corbyn/Labour government.

[sawadee1947]

9 hours ago, GeorgeCross said:

go Boris!

Go where? I do hope you mean the ditch. ????

[jesimps]

4 hours ago, edwinchester said:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/11/14/ae-waiting-times-now-worst-since-records-began/

 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jul/29/uk-deep-poverty-study-austerity

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/food-banks-parcels-poverty-trussell-trust-record-a9200471.html

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Kingdom

 

https://time.com/5717670/uk-russian-interference-brexit-delayed/

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-news-live-today-general-election-brexit-latest-labour-conservatives-a9206006.html

No unburied bodies and streets blocked by decaying rubbish yet I see.

[steve187]

16 hours ago, edwinchester said:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/11/14/ae-waiting-times-now-worst-since-records-began/

 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jul/29/uk-deep-poverty-study-austerity

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/food-banks-parcels-poverty-trussell-trust-record-a9200471.html

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Kingdom

 

https://time.com/5717670/uk-russian-interference-brexit-delayed/

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-news-live-today-general-election-brexit-latest-labour-conservatives-a9206006.html

some people in the UK settle for the lower paid jobs and fail to try and better themselves, stuck in this mindset. lots of born and bread UK citizens need a kick up the backside, happy to sponge off the government instead of getting a job, living with 5,6, or 7 adult children in a council house and expecting the local council to find them a bigger one, 

if you are anti conservatives then just say so, do you really think Corbyn would do better. the UK isn't perfect although lots of immigrants choose it over the rest of the EU,

[edwinchester]

40 minutes ago, steve187 said:

some people in the UK settle for the lower paid jobs and fail to try and better themselves, stuck in this mindset. lots of born and bread UK citizens need a kick up the backside, happy to sponge off the government instead of getting a job, living with 5,6, or 7 adult children in a council house and expecting the local council to find them a bigger one, 

if you are anti conservatives then just say so, do you really think Corbyn would do better. the UK isn't perfect although lots of immigrants choose it over the rest of the EU,

Yes I genuinely believe a Corbyn led Govt will be better for the vast majority of the UK people unlike the Conservative Party who are there to protect the 1%.

Immigrants and poor, under privileged people living in the UK are not the cause of the UK's problems but the major donors of the Tory party who own most of the British media will try and convince everyone that they are.

[Denim]

On 11/18/2019 at 11:01 AM, edwinchester said:

NHS waiting lists at all time highs, millions of people in poverty, record numbers using food banks and sleeping rough, a lying, cheating, conniving clown as PM, International reputation at rock bottom, covering up electoral fraud, buying peerages and Russian electoral meddling etc etc

How anyone with a conscience can vote for these <deleted> is beyond me.

 

Easy. They just have a quick look and listen to Jeremy Corbyn and the reaction is inevitable.

 

The only thing Corbyn has going for him is that he has the same initials as Jesus and Joe Cocker.

[Liverpudlian]

11 minutes ago, Denim said:

 

Easy. They just have a quick look and listen to Jeremy Corbyn and the reaction is inevitable.

 

The only thing Corbyn has going for him is that he has the same initials as Jesus and Joe Cocker.

Jacky chan too !

[Chomper Higgot]

Conservative confidence is said to be at a high.

 

So why the need to pull this kind of idiot stunt:

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/19/tories-tweet-anti-labour-posts-under-factcheckuk-brand

[sandyf]

22 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Conservative confidence is said to be at a high.

 

22 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

So why the need to pull this kind of idiot stunt:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/19/tories-tweet-anti-labour-posts-under-factcheckuk-brand

It is often said "there's nowt so queer as folk", Ukraine elected a comedian and it looks like the UK could follow suit.

People do not seem to realise it was the Tory party that has brought about the current state of affairs. Whenever things did not go their way they thought they could get out of trouble by calling a referendum or general election, why would that be any different in the future.

Time the electorate took the spots off the leopard.

 

As for the stunt, part of every day life for a comedian.

[ivor bigun]

On 11/19/2019 at 7:00 AM, edwinchester said:

Yes I genuinely believe a Corbyn led Govt will be better for the vast majority of the UK people unlike the Conservative Party who are there to protect the 1%.

Immigrants and poor, under privileged people living in the UK are not the cause of the UK's problems but the major donors of the Tory party who own most of the British media will try and convince everyone that they are.

Oh i do love a good comedy post now and again

[kingdong]

On 11/18/2019 at 10:52 AM, jesimps said:

No unburied bodies and streets blocked by decaying rubbish yet I see.

early days.........

[edwinchester]

4 hours ago, ivor bigun said:

Oh i do love a good comedy post now and again

...as opposed to the tragedy of a decade of Tory misrule.

Education funding slashed.

Police numbers slashed.

Thousands of NHS doctors and nurses lost.

Huge rise in the numbers living in poverty and using food banks.

Investment in affordable housing cut 60%.

Huge rise in the homeless and rough sleeping.

The 'bedroom tax' making more than 600 thousand people, mostly disabled, worse off.

Central Govt funding for local authorities slashed meaning less funding for roads, library closures, less frequent refuse collection and additional charges for council services.

In just one year, 2015, Tory austerity cuts were responsible for an additional 30,000 deaths according to the Royal Society of Medicine.

Boris Johnson will be just as much a disaster as Cameron and May have been.

[kingdong]

4 minutes ago, edwinchester said:

...as opposed to the tragedy of a decade of Tory misrule.

Education funding slashed.

Police numbers slashed.

Thousands of NHS doctors and nurses lost.

Huge rise in the numbers living in poverty and using food banks.

Investment in affordable housing cut 60%.

Huge rise in the homeless and rough sleeping.

The 'bedroom tax' making more than 600 thousand people, mostly disabled, worse off.

Central Govt funding for local authorities slashed meaning less funding for roads, library closures, less frequent refuse collection and additional charges for council services.

In just one year, 2015, Tory austerity cuts were responsible for an additional 30,000 deaths according to the Royal Society of Medicine.

Boris Johnson will be just as much a disaster as Cameron and May have been.

And what did Labour do in their three terms?,apart from lending a load of money and devaluing the pound to bail out their banking buddies in the city.

[Jip99]

On 11/19/2019 at 7:00 AM, edwinchester said:

Yes I genuinely believe a Corbyn led Govt will be better for the vast majority of the UK people unlike the Conservative Party who are there to protect the 1%.

Immigrants and poor, under privileged people living in the UK are not the cause of the UK's problems but the major donors of the Tory party who own most of the British media will try and convince everyone that they are.

 

Ridiculous.

 

 

Fortunately, the majority of the electorate will not share your view.

[edwinchester]

53 minutes ago, kingdong said:

And what did Labour do in their three terms?,apart from lending a load of money and devaluing the pound to bail out their banking buddies in the city.

Borrowing is at the highest it has ever been. This Tory Govt has borrowed more money than all previous Labour Governments combined.

The National Debt has doubled to £1.7 trillion!

How's the exchange rate doing for you? The Tory Brexit farce has killed it.