Labour policy - no immigration caps, open borders and free movement.

Do you think you've defeated Grandad intellectually, oh misnamed one?

Well, it’s true there are no rants, so.......

People will always disagree on politics and religion. With regard to open door policy immigration, I believe it depends on where you live as to your views on it. It is how immigration effects your particular area. Sometimes a good thing in an area and sometimes proves to be not so good. It is a shame people can not just be totally honest and not just think my area is good and ok so open immigration is fine. A case of' I'm alright Jack' and 'not in my back yard'.

Yet it is interesting that the areas with a high proportion of immigrants are apparently less anti-immigration and were more likely to vote Remain in 2016 whereas areas with very few immigrants tended to vote Leave

The NE overall has a very low percentage of immigrants (about 7% if I recall rightly) and voted Leave (apart from Newcastle, with a high proportion of those immigrants, which voted Remain)

I don't think immigration was their foremost reason.

Lack of opportunity had a lot to do with their vote:

www.jrf.org.uk/report/brexit-vote-explained-poverty-low-skills-and-lack-opportunities?

That hardly explains the Sunderland vote. They had Nissan, worth 30,000 jobs to them...

Though locals I spoke to afterwards were pretty sure that Nissan wouldn't move out as the Sunderland factory was one of Nissan's top performers because of its excellent workforce.

Humptydumpty I am pleased that you admit that the labour plans are unrealistic. So what is the use of putting forward resolutions that cannot come to fruition? Perhaps we should staff A & E units with king's horses to perform surgery???

Impartialandeducated, in regard to your post @08:31 today, many of the debates at the Labour Movement Delegate conference this year were indeed carried out on the basis of Resolutions put forward. A Resolution is placed before any meeting within the Labour organisation as an ambition if passed

However, in the above, any Motion if passed immediately becomes Labour Party policy which the National Executive are under obligation to implement should they gain government power.

As John, McDonald as pointed out in the numerous interviews he has given in recent days, many of the debates held at this years delegate conference were held under Resolution status and therefore they would make up a ten-year portfolio of policies for a Labour Party government.

Impartialandeducated, as you stated in your above post that the conference had debated "resolutions" that negates the need to mention "kings horses" etc, as to anyone with basic political knowledge and education would have seen the above as obviously long term ambitions.

Anyway of to the office now, see you later.

I wouldn't bother to feed it, Grandad...

Haha Terribull what a hilarious post @15:15! ?