Shadow Trade Sec, Andrew Griffith, underlines need to "have honest conversations about immigration", then in the next breath dishonestly labels youth mobility as "freedom of movement" that may "tip hundreds of thousands" into the UK. Before accepting we have exactly such a scheme with Australia.🤔~AA - ThreadSky

bestforbritain.bsky.social • 5 days ago

Shadow Trade Sec, Andrew Griffith, underlines need to "have honest conversations about immigration", then in the next breath dishonestly labels youth mobility as "freedom of movement" that may "tip hundreds of thousands" into the UK. Before accepting we have exactly such a scheme with Australia.🤔~AA

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thefripod.bsky.social•5 days ago

“We need to have honest conversations..”

The lies through his teeth.

It’s the Tory way.

alec10k.bsky.social•4 days ago

More Tory crap…. They just can stop it

thatdudebes.bsky.social•5 days ago

Canada, New Zealand and South Korea also.

maggsh247.bsky.social•4 days ago

15 long harduous years for ordinary people. Nothing they did improved anything. Brexit made everything worse. Why on earth would we listen to a word they say about anything. 😠

peterdavieson.bsky.social•4 days ago

The right wing know they don't have to make sense .. they just have to screach noise, vomit lies and feign outraged victimhood at everything.

mji29.bsky.social•5 days ago

He called it a "partial return to freedom of movement". Not helpful language, but also not as bad as you have labelled it @bestforbritain.bsky.social

He seemed open to the idea of a Youth Mobility Scheme despite his requirement to 'Oppose'. He only asked for practical details and safeguards.

alec10k.bsky.social•4 days ago

Also totally inaccurate. What a liar! Classic Tory

mji29.bsky.social•4 days ago

Still doesn't help if people are inaccurate in their reporting of inaccuracies.

rav-in-da-house.bsky.social•4 days ago

Similar conversations being had on LBC. People ringing in complaining that we don’t have the jobs, the language skills to work abroad or the space to accommodate more people. The UK is stuck in 2016.

ledredman.bsky.social•4 days ago

Griffiths is a nasty little creep. A real slimeball.

ctr23.bsky.social•5 days ago

I live for the seconds where he told his little small boat joke and waited for her to laugh or smile.

The realisation on his face that no laugh was coming is incredible.

barbsie.bsky.social•4 days ago

Vile vile vile!!! Tories being tories

dailycorruption.bsky.social•5 days ago

Same old Tories… lie lie lie

nufc200.bsky.social•5 days ago

If it was an honest conversation, he would be talking about all the evidence that net migration has a positive impact on economic growth and productivity. Instead he rolls out the same old tropes.

oatycrunch.bsky.social•5 days ago

TWAT!!!!!

funglethegnole.bsky.social•5 days ago

It's almost like they don't actually care about the country or facts, just trying to score points off each other. Almost.

But that would make them self-serving traitors.

dcbcherrygate.bsky.social•4 days ago

What a lothesome individual.
Degree in gaslighting?

pifflepockle.bsky.social•4 days ago

I reckon he polishes his helmet every night before bed.

georgesson.bsky.social•4 days ago

If he wants an honest debate he needs to sit it out because he lies.

ajs1977.bsky.social•5 days ago

This is what Keir Starmer & Labour must deal with from the Conservatives regarding any interactions at all with the European Union, ie:

A shadow minister goes on broadcast news to tell barefaced lies about a youth mobility scheme being a catalyst for uncontrolled migration.
https://bsky.app/profile/bestforbritain.bsky.social/post/3lnn5463irk2x

callistosolo.bsky.social•5 days ago

He's a tory, they can't lie straight in bed.

13sarahmurphy.bsky.social•4 days ago

What a disgraceful take from Griffith. Joking about young Europeans “hopefully not” coming over in small boats, insinuating it would be “hundreds of thousands” and asking about the burden on the NHS.
Wtf has happened to these Brexit-brained Tories? Quite incapable now of telling the goddam truth.