Starmer's personal attacks on Sunak start the ball rolling..

Big Ears is too busy doing MOTD.

Can't help yourself can you?

Yeh right dead nag......We wont be taking your word for it.

Throughout history, all developed nations have enjoyed real growth and progress through migrant labour

In this country it was the Irish who sunk our mines and built our railways, in Germany it was Turks and migrants from Southern Europe who rebuilt the country after the war. The UK invited people to come here and work from the Caribbean after the Second World War, we also hired thousands of health care professionals from the sub continent.

The influx of Eastern Europeans through "Freedom of Movement" raised growth, it encouraged the rapid expansion of industries which had barely existed in this country, or industries that struggled, the Salad Growing Industry for example.

Other industries flourished because of the willingness of European migrants to do the unskilled jobs on National Minimum Wage that our own people were reluctant to do, these including the food processing sectors, hospitality, tourism, catering and care work.

Freedom of Movement had a positive effect on the UK economy, there were many companies who struggled to fill vaccancies, some food producers had permanent labour shortages.

The idea that you simply push up wages to attract people is a non-starter, because it does two things, firstly it creates the same problem somewhere else, secondly, by pushing wages upwards until it attracts workers, it also drives up costs - in the food industry the competitors are almost all European countries, you make British products uncompetetive.

Freedom of Movement is a "Freedom", it was a freedom enjoyed by British people as much as other Europeans, but its a freedom that has now been taken away from us. I can no longer simply move to Cyprus or France and buy a property and live there, its now more complicated. Brexiters have taken freedom of movement away from us.

Try telling the indigenous populations that old pony. 

Stagnating wages - the National Minimum Wage has risen every year since its introduction, the NMW is what the vast majority of European migrant workers were / are earning.

Over-run by ethnic groups ? - you mean white caucasian Europeans of a mostly Christian heritage ?, such as Poles.

Was never an issue, never a problem, only to xenophobes.

The current shortage of labour is impacting growth, it is also impacting our competetiveness, it is helping to drive inflation because of wage costs, and it is pushing some businesses out of business, its making a difficult situation with rising energy costs, even more difficult.

Why is the UK suffering the lowest growth of not only the G7, but also the G20, why is our economy performing less well than the United States, Germany, Japan, France, Italy, Canada, and according to the IMF will perform worse than sanction hit Russia.